Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Chris, a New York-based photographer and filmmaker, has a fantastic idea that I truly love. He is putting together a book of photographic portraits of atheists as a direct challenge to the persistent myth that without some mythological supernatural entity, life is apparently pointless and that our lives are devoid of joy and happiness. Chris explains … I … Read more
Stephen Bayley writes in today’s UK Telegraph an article that is stuffed full of bizarre and strange claims, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen so much daftness packed into so few words. The entire article consists of just two paragraphs, and they pay him to do this? However ever little it was, it was still … Read more
This is hilarious … I just had to post it and share. OK, it has been around for a few years, I first saw this back in 2001, but having tripped over it again, I could not resist posting. Does anybody know where it originally comes from?
Here is a truly excellent performance by Andrew Copson (Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association), he is to be congratulated for a job well done, he interviews very well and comes across as eloquent, concise and calm. As for Anne Atkins … “I want to live in a confused mishmash of a society that just about works. We … Read more
It was Darwin’s birthday this week (he was 203 on 12 Feb) and so the fact that my thoughts have been turning in that direction is being reflected in what I have been writing this week. Today, I’d like to turn away from commenting on the utter insanity of the draft claims made some religious … Read more
In today’s UK Guardian, the Tory party chairman, Lady Warsi, has issued a warning for what she calls the “militant secularisation” of society and propose Christianity is given a central role in public life. What the heck is “militant secularisation”, and why or why would you give an irrational belief a seat at the table? … Read more