Are You a Humanist?

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The British Humanist Association has a fun little quiz for you to try out and see if you are a Humanist but never knew it. It is a set of roughly ten simple questions such as … Does God exist? with options such as (It depends what you mean, Yes, No, I don’t know, etc), … Read more

Selling Silence

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A CD filled with … nothing at all except complete silence … has become a bit of a hit. It is a 30 minute recording of the inside of the village church of St Peter’s Church in Hangleton, Hove, done to raise funds to repair the building. An article on it reports … Roger Bing, 74, … Read more

Why do well-educated smart people reject scientific ideas?

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There is a rather interesting article in Edge that has been written by Paul Bloom, a psychologist at Yale University, and also Deena Skolnick Weisberg, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Yale University. The paper is entitled “WHY DO SOME PEOPLE RESIST SCIENCE?”, and is in fact a modified version of a paper published in Science entitled … Read more

Beware The Logic of Sherlock Holmes

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While in a debate recently, one chap justified his assertion by deploying the following quote … “When you dismiss the impossible, whatever you have left, however improbable, is the answer.” Recognise it? Yep, Sherlock Holmes (or Spock if you prefer), well the precise quote is this … “You will not apply my precept,” he said, … Read more

Islamic vigilantes in East London

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There have been reports of Muslims out on the streets in east London harassing non-Muslims and verbally abusing them, not just people walking by, but stopping cars and going into hotels. There is a video at that previous link, apparently these complete twats filmed themselves doing all this. Well, since they had very kindly provided evidence … Read more

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