Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
In a media context, summer is the UK is often referred to as the silly season, a time when frivolous news stories emerge. Other terms include “slow news season” or “dog days of summer”. Its understandable because people are on vacation and parliaments are in recess, hence the activities that generate a lot of media content … Read more
After last weeks “Ark Special” posting, I’d be tempted to say something along the lines of this week being a week where these weekly weird religious news posting summaries are now back to normal. There is however one tiny flaw … there is nothing “normal” about much of this. You do of course have to … Read more
Ark Encounters, the $100 million dollar life-sized replica of Noah’s ark that was constructed in Kentucky by the young-earth creationist organisation Answers in Genesis, is once again demanding a bit of blogging attention. It is all just too bizarre and weird to ignore. First a bit of Background I did an Ark Special a few … Read more
This week quite a lot has been happening over in Kentucky at Answers In Genesis, so much so, that I’ll make this week’s selection an Ark Encounter special edition. Pictured above you can see that the highly homophobic organisation has decided to brighten up their life-sized Ark theme park this week with Rainbow colours. Pink … Read more
The term “weird” is perhaps a relative term. Often ideas that are highly unusual and bizarre will be appropriated culturally and so they become accepted as normal and not weird. Belief often operates as a mini-culture that is distinctly different and so it can and does contain things that our wider society will recognise as … Read more
How do those that trulybelieve handle items of religious weirdness? I recall once attending a bible meeting as a teen (hey, I would try anything at that age). While having lunch, I listened to one chap relate a story to those sitting near him. It was about some bit of weirdness in which he claimed … Read more