Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Following last month’s Glasgow Skeptics talk, “Evolution and Global Warming Denial: How the Public is Misled”, by NCSE (National Centre for Science Education) Executive Director Dr Eugenie Scott, ID proponent Dr Alastair Noble has used his website, The Centre For Intelligent Design (never to be confused with The Centre For Unintelligent Design!), to take issue … Read more
The good news regarding the launch of the Clergy Project project has prompted me to write this. I’ll come to the details later, but first lets put this in context. Most clerics (pastors, priests, monks, nuns etc…), within religious groups, probably entered the vocation because they truly believed and were perhaps sure that God was … Read more
The news is that … at last … a US Catholic bishop has been charged with failing to report abuse. Bishop Robert Finn has been indicted on a charge of failing to protect children after he and his diocese waited five months to tell police about hundreds of images of child pornography discovered on a … Read more
Rory Fenton writes an article in Today’s Guardian that is titled ” There is a gaping, atheist-shaped hole in the interfaith movement“. If indeed you are a non-believer like me, your first reaction is perhaps the same as mine, “Why should I bother engaging with a bunch of folks who hold irrational beliefs?”. Well OK, … Read more
I’ve spent the day today in York (the old one founded by the Romans in CE 71). My son is off to university there, so I drove him there yesterday. Today we did a big shop in the morning so that he can now hibernate for the winter in his dorm as he studies. We … Read more
Now this (for me at least) is cool … it is a video of some rather dramatic Coastal Erosion in Cornwall. The chap who took the video just happened to be in the right spot at just the right moment and caught 1000’s of tonnes of rock falling into the Atlantic!. The cameraman was on … Read more