Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The Saudi Gazette has announced the exciting news that a cure for Cancer has been discovered by Dr. Faten Abdel-Rahman Khorshid. She … yes, it’s a woman and not a man who has made … “one of the Kingdom’s greatest national achievements in the field of science“. This is truly exciting stuff, and it is fantastic … Read more
Katie Engelhart, a London-based writer, has gone with the following title for an article is Salon … Atheism starts its megachurch: Is it a religion now? Hang on a moment, Atheism is not a religion, and no there is no “Atheist Megachurch”, so what is going on here? It is of course a bit of media … Read more
If you run a Hotel then it means that you will indeed meet all sorts of people, some of course will be very nice and a true delight to meet, others will be complete twats. One such example of the latter category involves a review on Trip Advisor for the following hotel … A Mr … Read more
Back in July two researchers at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga considered the idea that atheists and agnostics fell into distinct categories, so they conducted a study to find out what those categories were. From this they identified six different types (yes, I blogged about it before). It attracted rather a lot of attention at … Read more
Rebecca Searles has a rather simple little test on the HuffPo for you to use to determine if you are a Feminist. Now don’t panic, it’s fracking simple, so buckle up your seatbelts,because here it is … See, I told you it was easy … so did you pass?
Often when debating believers, a rather common tact taken is to hear something akin to the following declaration, “OK, you as an Atheist can do whatever you want, but I much prefer decency as defined in the Bible“. That of course is the cue to point out that the Bible endorses genocide and slavery as … Read more