Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
There is a national census in Ireland, and it takes place in a couple of months … on Sunday 10th April to be precise. And, Atheist Ireland has a plea for you … Be Honest in the Irish Census on Sunday 10 April. Think before you tick your answer to the religion question, and give … Read more
There is a claim that an omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent “Supreme Being” exists … however, this claim has a rather profound problem that many choose to sweep under the carpet and ignore. The problem is this … we live in a world in which many truly horrendous events happen … stuff that is totally tragic. This … Read more
Its official … the majority of the UK population is non religious and secular. If you take the folks who have any religious belief and combine then up … you still have a minority of the population … there is an article in the Guardian today about this … apparently in 1985 (only 25 years … Read more
Ricky Gervais gets asked all the time, “Why don’t you believe in God?”, so he tries to give them a resonable thoughtful answer, but often ends up being frustrated. What he finds is that they are not actually looking for his response at all, they simply want to convert him. What is truly frustrating is … Read more
I just came across an old article in the May edition of Scientific American by Steve Mirsky. Apparently Harris Interactive conducted an on-line survey in March regarding what folks in the US thought of President Obama, and (as you might expect) the results proved to be rather startling … for example, Steve reports … 40 … Read more
There are going to be some Atheist advertisements on the sides of buses in Fort Worth, Texas, and its all causing a lot of fuss because all the local ministers are threatening a bus boycott. From one viewpoint, I suspect quite a few folks will be happy about that, because the buses will be a … Read more