Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Nick Cohen, a UK columnist for the Observer and New Statesman, has an article in todays Guardian that is well worth reading … its all about blasphemy laws, and the attempt by Pakistan to inject them into the UN. I suspect you can guess what his views are by just reading the title. Here is … Read more
Many folks talk to God, however, what is truly frightening is when you encounter folks who claim that God has been talking to them. One such character is the famous (or infamous) Pat Robertson. He claims that God has been chatting to him about what will happen in 2011. So what whispers has he heard? … Read more
As I’m sure you know, there are Christian ministries whose television preaching does nothing but bankroll the lavish lifestyles of these ministers of “truth”. However, what you might not be aware of is that the investigation into the worst examples of this will do absolutely nothing about it, and is quite happy for them to … Read more
Wow, now this is truly exciting … a team of Princeton University scientists led by professor Michael Hecht have constructed for the first time artificial proteins that enable the growth of living cells. The team have actually created genetic sequences never before seen in nature, and so they have now shown that they can produce … Read more
Galileo has been sent a letter explaining that all is forgiven and that he was right all along (well yes that’s Catholicism for you, its only 500 years too late). Also evolution is asserted to be factual, and of course the Big Bang really happened. So where, from the viewpoint of the Catholic church, does … Read more
A new paper has just appeared in Science dated 7th Jan (wow, its still only 6th, have I just fallen into a time rift?). Anyway, they appear to have unraveled a mystery. For quite some time it has been known that the solar corona is far hotter than the sun’s surface by millions of degrees, … Read more