Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
So a posting has popped up that is basically the Mother Lode of weird religious claims. Qasim Rashid, an Ahmadiyya Muslim has written an article entitled, “New Atheism: The Mother Lode of Bad Ideas” that starts out as follows … Mere hours after condemning the murder of three Muslim students at Chapel Hill last month, notorious … Read more
This year Pi Day is different. Not only can you use the month and day, but you can also deploy time – the date, (3-14-15) hour, (9 hr) minute (26 min) and second (5 sec) will reflect the first 9 digits of Pi (3.14159265). What the heck is Pi ? Pi (Greek letter “π”) is … Read more
This is truly great news, Saudi Arabia is starting to really feel the heat and Sweden is leading the charge. The UK’s Guardian reports … A clash between Sweden’s progressive foreign policy and the harsh realities of the Middle East has escalated with Saudi Arabia’s withdrawal of its ambassador after Stockholm tore up an arms … Read more
Today it is just a bit of entertainment, and so no serious point is being made at all. There is a rather amusing thread in reddit that asks “What fact did you learn at an embarrassingly late age?“. As you might imagine, a few of the contributions are hilarious, and so here are my favourites … Read more
The degree of the ongoing human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia is frankly astonishing and so quite rightly they have been receiving rather a lot of robust fact based criticism. What has greatly helped to throw the spotlight upon it all has been their absurd and brutal treatment of Raif Badawi (pictured above), a writer and … Read more
So the following quote comes from “The Blaze” and thus needs to be digested with a rather huge lump of salt … Journalist and pastor Lee Strobel — an atheist reporter-turned-Christian writer — is wondering whether a person’s relationship with his or her father could be impacting what individuals believe about the existence of a higher power. Strobel, who commissioned the … Read more