Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is deeply concerned about the Nigerian Mubarak Bala (pictured above). Now this is important, so I’m reproducing their posting in full here (it originally came from here) … A Nigerian man has been detained and medicated for over a week on a psychiatric ward in Kano state, Nigeria, on the … Read more
Andrew Bolt the Australian journalist, newspaper columnist, radio commentator, blogger and television host, has come up with a little list entitled “Just one week in the world of Islam” where he writes … What the hell is the problem with Islam? In the past week.. In Kenya: At least 34 people have been killed after … Read more
A genuinely nice chap who is a member of the Ahmadiyya Islamic sect recently wrote an article entitled “‘Talibani Atheism’ & how it fuels Islamophobia”. For background context, the Ahmadiyya are a fringe Islamic sect that renounce all violence, which is of course praise worthy, and in fact they suffer a considerable degree of intolerance and discrimination … Read more
The Physicist Dr. Christopher Keating has a challenge for you on his blog … I am announcing the start of the $10,000 Global Warming Skeptic Challenge. The rules are easy: 1. I will award $10,000 of my own money to anyone that can prove, via the scientific method, that man-made global climate change is not occurring; … Read more
Can we ever really discover the facts here? We can perhaps gain some insights by looking at how belief systems portray their founders, and what the historical documented facts really tell us. When we look, we discover a rather consistent pattern. If we review belief systems that have recently emerged such as Mormonism or Scientology, we have … Read more
Did you know that World Humanist Day is celebrated every year on June 21 – today? It’s symbolic of course because today is the day that marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and so it is the longest brightest day. If you are wondering what Humanism actually is, then a good place to start is the Wikipedia page on the topic, it … Read more