Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Hemant Mehta, is rather famous for selling his soul on eBay … and yes, he really did. That story (briefly) is as follows … In January 2006, Hemant Mehta posted an auction on eBay where he explained his background in atheism and offered to go to the worship services of the winning bidder’s choosing. The auction ended on February … Read more
OK, I started on this trend yesterday, so I have a bit more to add today. Yes, the data from the posting yesterday was indeed 3 years old, and so what caught my attention here and motivated me to post more of the same is that this is based on new data – Harris surveyed 2,250 … Read more
The Washington Post has published a rather detailed breakdown of religion in the US … alas statistics, so yes it can indeed be potentially quite dull stuff, I’ll skip a lot of details and cut to the chase of what it is of interest – non-belief is rapidly increasing. (There, that’s it, so you can skip … Read more
The Onion reports … “God Freaks Self Out By Lying Awake Contemplating Own Immortality” Lets get it right from the start … it is satire … OK … (the fact that you really do need to spell that out at times can indeed be a truly scary observation), so anyway, here is a brief snippet … Read more
Well-known Christian Apologist, William Lane Craig, has written an article in which he lays out five items that he claims to be “evidence” that there is a God. The site in which he promotes all this from is …. (insert drum roll) … Fox News. Well yes, I guess my first thought is to wonder … Read more
It has been coming for some time now, I knew deep down that it was going to happen soon because the signs were there and so I would have to make a decision, but it could only really be a choice that I was truly happy with and also one that had solid evidence to … Read more