Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
This is truly horrendous and almost beyond description … the BBC reports … The girl, known only as Anusha, was found to have burns over 60% of her body. Her father Muhammad Zafar told the BBC what happened: “There was a boy who came by on a motorcycle. She (Anusha) turned to look at him twice. I … Read more
Kristen Neel, a teenager from Georgia, was rather disappointed when Obama won, so she tweeted as follows to express her disgust with the US as follows : A retweet count of 1,424, gosh why is that? Perhaps because there are a couple of very minor little problems here … Australia does not have a President, … Read more
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