Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
When faced with circumstances or events that are completely beyond our control, war, disaster, accident, or health challenges, involving either ourselves or others, then a quite common human instinct is to attempt to gain control of the completely uncontrollable by attempting to seek assistance from a supernatural entity – we call that “prayer”. The concept … Read more
Should you find yourself in need of a bit of amusement in a dull moment while waiting for a train, plane or bus, then I can highly recommend the twitter feed of the Godless Spellchecker. Why? well because this bastion of non Divine Spelling Intervention is simply hilarious, and as testament to that fact, he has over … Read more
There is a “Hug an Atheist Day” event page on Facebook, which was created by Indian Atheists and today is the big day. So far 729 have signed up … oh wait, make that 730, I just signed up as well. They explain it as following on the event page … On the friday evening, june 7th, we … Read more
Just how daft can beliefs get, can they become, not just outrageously bizarre, but complete decoupled from reality, and yet still assert a claim of “truth”? Yes, they can and often do. I must confess to an excessive degree of bemusement derived from a scan of Ken Ham’s folly, perhaps better known to some as … Read more
Today lets have a bit of fun … learning the bible from Penn and Teller … (yes OK, it is from 2006, but hey, it still stands) … So there you have it then … oh, you want more? Well yes, that was just part 1, so here is part 2 … I suppose you … Read more
The debate on the proposed Gay Marriage bill in the UK has reached the House of Lords, and as might be expected, the unelected Bishops have a few thoughts on it all. Side note, yes we have people who are part of our law-making process on the sole basis that they have an imaginary friend … Read more