Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
As an atheist, there are specific things that have clear simple answers, for example God claims can be dismissed due to the lack of evidence, attempts by the religious to impose by force their crazy ideas can also be rejected, obnoxious behaviour or abuse motivated by irrational beliefs can and should be denounced, but what … Read more
Now here is an interesting debate that recently took place. First some brief facts … It’s a debate between two atheists: Matt Dillahunty and Kristine Kruszelnicki and was Titled “Secularists Should Not Support the Right To Abortion”. It starts off with an Introduction by Paul Cooper. He is the President Texas Freethought Convention (that is … Read more
The printing press dramatically transformed our world, and so now the Internet is doing the same right across many industries. Information that was once locked away is starting to flow out to all of us. Today’s example of this is an educational one. MIT-Harvard was once the exclusive preserve of those rich enough to gain entry, … Read more
One Einstein quote that appears to pop up on a regular basis is often rattled off as follows: “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” “So there you go then“, chips in the believer to the non-believer, “One of the smartest men is not as dismissive as you are of the importance … Read more
Least you wonder “Who?”, Stonewall is a UK charity that campaigns for lesbian, gay and bisexual rights, and they have named the Scottish cardinal (pictured here) “bigot of the year” for his vigorous attacks on gay marriage. The Guardian reports … Stonewall said its 10,000 members had voted “decisively” to give the title to O’Brien, head of … Read more
It sounds like a simple question, and you might assume that the answer is either “Yes” of “No”, but the truth is that neither answer is correct. I very much like the way that Tom Chivers has described it in the Telegraph … Imagine you have a big fairground Wheel of Fortune thing, with the … Read more