The Centre for Unintelligent Design

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Last April Keith Gilmour, a School Teacher, spoke at an event organised by the Humanist Society of Scotland for the Edinburgh International Science Festival. The topic was “The Threat of Creeping Creationism in Scottish Schools.”. His approach was as follows: A summary of his school’s RME/RMPS curriculum Then he highlighted some of the unsolicited ID and … Read more

Claim: “Six Scientists go on trial next week for failure to predict earthquake” – not quite correct.

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Some utter insanity has apparently broken out in Italy. The BBC Newsnight page reports that seven scientists are, in a Galileo-style inquisition, to stand trial next week for failing to accurately predict the precise timing of an earthquake. Wow … scientists accused of failing to predict an earthquake? Actually no, that is not what is … Read more

creating “Inorganic life” – first tentative steps have now been taken

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Now this is interesting, really interesting … lets start with five key bullet points  … Scientists at the University of Glasgow say they have taken their first tentative steps towards creating ‘life’ from inorganic chemicals If they really do construct complex chemical cells with life-like properties, it could help us understand how life emerged (but … Read more

Religious Myths about Atheists

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There is a great article over at AlterNet entitled “10 Myths Many Religious People Hold About Atheists, Debunked”. There you will find that Amanda Marcotte has done a great job slicing and dicing the following list … There are no atheists in foxholes Atheists are just angry with God Atheists are aggressive and rude Atheism is … Read more