Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
If you have no interest in tapping directly into the very latest thinking from some of the leading intellectuals and thinkers on the planet today without any intervention from middlemen such as journalists and journal editors, then you better stop reading right now and move quickly on, because I’m about to introduce you to Edge.org. What … Read more
The news in the UK at the moment is that a 23 year old Afghan man has been granted asylum on the sole basis that he does not believe in a god. The issue in play here is the Islamic belief that murdering those that once believed and no longer do is the duty of … Read more
There is an old story about a candidate up for election to the US senate who would tour the rural areas in the south and deliver a redneck speech in which he would run down his opponent as follows … Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not … Read more
Somebody has written a letter in a newspaper yesterday to the Rev Billy Graham as follows … Dear Rev. Graham: Do you think there are more atheists today than there used to be? My cousin says he’s been reading some books by atheists, and now he’s decided to become one (much to his family’s disgust, I … Read more
Wallace Henley, pastor in the 60,000 member Second Baptist Church of Houston, has written an open letter at all Atheists as a supposed bit of guidance on how to respond to the daft suggestion of another Megachurch pastor John Hagee, that all Atheists should get on a plane and leave the US. So what have we got … Read more
In the UK there is a 31st January deadline for filing your tax return with HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs – a non-ministerial department of the UK Government responsible for the collection of taxes), and as you might imagine, some miss the deadline and file late along with an excuse in the hope that … Read more