Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Take a pack of cards, shuffle, and pick five – you know that due to the vast diversity of possible combinations you will not get the same hand every time. So what about evolution, is that the same, if we started from scratch would you eventually end up with us (or something akin to us) … Read more
MIT Technology review has published the details of a rather interesting study regarding the decline of religious beliefs. Since the 1990s the use of the internet has risen … and …. since the 1990s there has been a decline in religious affiliation … therefore … using the internet causes a decline in religious affiliation. Here is … Read more
So I was shown a page entitled “Clever questions atheists can’t answer!” and asked to comment. It turns out to be a list that comes from a “Creation Science” site, so you can most probably guess what the spin here is going to be, and you can also be darn sure that we are dealing with individuals … Read more
No serious posts or ranting today, but instead just a bit of entertainment for you from the Irish Comedian Dave Allen. His observations were a way of looking at religion from different perspectives and that then enabled many to laugh at the absurdities revealed. So here now is a collection of some of his religious jokes that … Read more
Back in 2012 there was an apparently utterly absurd decision by an Italian court to convict six scientists and a government official for failing to give an adequate warning of a 2009 Earthquake and sentenced them all to six years in prison. That 2012 judgement has now been overturned. As explained in Wired … An appeals court in … Read more
I wrote a couple of days ago about the utterly absurd case in Iran of a British citizen Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, being found guilty of spreading anti-regime propaganda and in fact all she had actually done was to attempt to go a watch a game of Volleyball, a sport that is apparently the exclusive preserve of men. … Read more