Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
As I’m sure you may be aware, a UK Government Minister, Eric Pickles, has been making statements … “Militant atheists” should accept that Britain is a Christian country and “get over it”, the communities secretary Eric Pickles said yesterday. Pickles changed the law in 2012 to ensure that English parish councils could not face legal challenges for … Read more
The claim here is that a Norwegian skydiver wearing a helmet camera was almost hit by a Meteor, and that it was caught on his camera as it flew past him. If indeed true, then he clearly had quite a close call and if he had delayed his jump by just a few seconds then … Read more
Sometimes the degree of stupidity exceeds all expectations. In Pakistan, Mosa Khan, a child, has been accused along with 30 other people of planning murder, threatening police and also interfering in state affairs. So is this some teen who has gone rogue? Nope, here he is in court … Yes, the accused is 9 months old. … Read more
Turkey is back on the map once again. Officials there have now announced that the country has lifted the ban on Twitter on Thursday – see news reports – and yes, their Government does confirm that they have lifted the ban a day after the country’s highest court ruled that the Twitter ban was illegal, ordering the government to unblock … Read more
Westboro Baptist have been criticised by a store sign and they are really unhappy about that fact … so much so that they are having a protest outside next Saturday (5th April) Oh the irony … in fact, I think this just broke my industrial strength irony meter. OK, so what is the story here? … Read more
The latest trend from some rather extreme Islamic religious lunatics is to officially brand non-belief as violent terrorism. Seriously? Yes really, we have several recent examples. First there is the Lebanese President who equated atheists to terrorists … The million dollar quote is: “Peace will defeat war. Faith will defeat fundamentalism and atheism.” [0:30-0:34] Wow… Just … Read more