Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Today I have no specific point, and am instead sharing a few recordings that simply made me laugh, oh and it is also nice to note that Obama himself has a great sense of humour. Now, if you happened to be in his shoes, would you not also be tempted at one point to say … Read more
Dawn, Pakistan’s oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper, brings us the rather astonishing news that the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) concluded its 191th meeting with the ruling that the laws related to minimum age of marriage were un-Islamic and that children of any age could get married. This is manifests itself as far older … Read more
A few Numbers for you … 8.5 Million viewers for the first night Another 40 million people worldwide will watch the premiere this week And (not a surprise) the traffic on Neil deGrasse Tyson‘s wikipedia page has shot up Here also are a couple of reviews that I liked … Your God is too small – on … Read more
Pakistan is generally perceived to be a nation populated with rather a lot of religious lunatics, and I do not mean just your average culturally religious individual, but rather people who embrace the medieval idea that murdering those of a different belief is a really good idea, so much so that they act upon that … Read more
Franklin Graham, son of the more famous Billy Graham and also CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, has written an article in which he claims that those that do not believe in God are fools. Since he has a quote from the bible that says this is so, then I guess it just must be true … Read more
It is time to see if you have any good cognitive toolkit suggestions. First the context. Somebody (who shall remain nameless) was asking for recommendations for a good book. They just happen to be somebody who was/is a Christian believer, but now faces a lot of doubts … and so is sitting on the fence. … Read more