Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
This is utterly tragic … almost beyond words. Syrians fleeing the conflict to places like Jordan are finding themselves destitute and out of sheer desperation are forced to extreme measures. The Toronto Star has the details … Nezar too was a homemaker in Homs who arrived in Jordan last year. Her husband was a taxi … Read more
Alan Yuhas has a simply hilarious take on the latest attempt to bring the Bible to TV (gosh, the Bible on TV, that has never been done before). There have been various other “observations” made about it all such as the portrayal of Satan by a chap who looks just like Obama, or the list … Read more
Some believers might be sufficiently paranoid to think that non-believers wish to grab every copy of the bible or quran to burn or ban then, but not at all, the truth is quite the opposite. I fully support and encourage everybody to read both of these books … properly. What is true is that there is an … Read more
19 year old Tunisian Amina (FEMEN Tunisia) posted a topless photo of herself bearing the slogan “my body belongs to me, and is not the source of anyone’s honour”, what happened next is oh so predictable. The HuffPo has the details … Tunisian newspaper Kapitalis quoted the Wahabi Salafi preacher Almi Adel, who heads the Commission … Read more
There exists an on-line group that was established by some Muslims to “debunk” Atheism, and so given my stance I was added (without being asked). How are they doing so far? Not very well, but then how exactly do you de-bunk non-belief? the only way possible is to offer objective empirical evidence that some variation of belief … Read more
As part of a claim regarding the authorship of the Quran by a supernatural entity, I was presented with “proof”. This consisted of a series of clips by some western scientists that supposedly examined the quran and declared it to be divine, here are a couple of examples … Prof. William W. Hey“I would think … Read more