Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
This one simply blew me away, the rhetoric is simply jaw dropping stuff … Sorry about that, I should perhaps have warned you to put your coffee down before you clicked play. Yes, it is a rather weird thing to say, and is perhaps her rather failed attempt at humour, and also not unique in any … Read more
I have two stories for you today that relate to Cosmos, the fabulous science based TV show hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson – one is fake and is simply satire, but the other is quite real. So here there are … Story 1 – Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Cosmos Causes 27 Local School Children Demonic Possession Story 2 … Read more
Folks who are fully committed hell-fire and brimstone evangelical preachers will often pop up in various public locations to tell you all about Jesus. They are compelled to do so because part of the success of the belief is not simply that it plays a psychological trick upon you by getting you to buy into … Read more
Today marks the date on which Pakistan made it illegal to hold the wrong Islamic belief. Thirty years ago today, on 26th April 1984, Pakistan amended its penal code to target Ahmadiyya Muslims and made it a criminal offence, punishable by three years imprisonment, for an Ahmadi to call himself a Muslim. Today’s Times has … Read more
Today’s weird claim is made by Pat Robertson. Apparently a doctor channeled “god” to bring a dead patient back to life … Yes of course Pat, the highly trained medical team with decades of medical experience had absolutely nothing to do with it, and so we can happily dismiss their active intervention and attribute this … Read more
Do you even wonder how the young-earth creationists manage to cope with some rather obvious bits of evidence such as Dinosaur bones? Well, you need wonder no more, because Ken ham has announced that they are getting their very own real dinosaur in his Creation Museum and that it will soon be on display … Last year, the … Read more