Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The quick short answer is “no”, being religious does not make you stupid .. OK, were are done. Well yes, I did want to write a bit more. Barbara Drescher, a cognitive psychologist and blogger, has posted a really good article to the new skeptical blogging platform whose writers focus on scientific skepticism (yea) all about this very topic. There she explains that highly … Read more
OK, so this is not so serious today and concerns the musings of a Christian playing “What if” in response to a satire clip by Bill Maher. I’ll post Bill’s religious conversion clip at the end (it’s a bit of hilarious satire), but first lets take a look at what this lady has been dreaming … Read more
Emma Watson, yes from harry Potter (she will no doubt carry that association for the rest of hurt life), has made a speech at the UN a couple of days ago that has provoked quite a reaction. She called for all men to be slaughtered and demanded that the UN immediately proceed with this plan … Read more
David Martin writes over in the Huff Po an article entitled “What Falls Between Agnostic and Atheist?” within which he is pondering what is the correct label that he should utilise to describe himself. It’s interesting to pause and consider it because it gives me an excuse to mull over the use of such labels. … Read more
If you happen to have a twitter account, then how do you decide who you will stalk follow? It can only ever be a subjective personal preference, and so when Science publishes a list of the Top 50 science stars on Twitter, I can’t help but ponder the thought – “how precisely do you measure … Read more
It’s always interesting to examine some of these claims when they pop up. People believe, I get that, but how can people truly believe in the absence of any really objective independently verifiable evidence? The answer is that they truly think that they do have evidence, and so we have an example of exactly this … Read more