Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
A “You don’t need evidence” claim appears to have been doing the rounds on Islamic sites, and so courtesy of the wonders of cut-and-paste, you will find it popping up these days. I spotted it today … again! … and so felt it appropriate to blog a quick response to illustrate just how utterly insane … Read more
Huma Qureshi writes in todays Guardian about a new book that is a collection of honest real-life love stories by American Muslim women and gives an interesting insight into their love, faith and choices … Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women is a collection of 25 modern Muslim love stories. They aren’t fictional, … Read more
The Guardian pulled out an old story from 1974 and popped it up for us all to laugh at today … Incredulity reigned among British archaeologists yesterday after Senator Frank Moss, chairman of the US Senate Space Committee, told a gathering of American mapmakers that a speck on a photograph of Mount Ararat taken from … Read more
As you might, or might not be aware, but a few leading folks, who just happen to be homophobic bigots because the bible tells them its OK, started a daft petition yesterday … Christian campaigners are petitioning Prime Minister David Cameron to stop the introduction of same-sex marriage. Coalition for Marriage (C4M) said it was … 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?