Critical Thinking

John Lennox claims … “You can’t explain the universe without God”

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A Muslim has been posting on Facebook some rather selective cherry-picked quotes from John Lennox’s Daily Mail article of 3rd Sept 2010. The fact that our Muslim friend did not attribute the source of his quotes and so by default implied they were his own is rather dishonest, but perhaps understandable because he was in fact … Read more

Aviation authority issues warning about Flying Witches … for real, not as a joke.

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Leo Igwe , a Nigerian human rights advocate and humanist who I’ve had the deep privilege of meeting, has a nicely written and truly skeptical article within New Zimbabwe all about the daft belief in flying witches. He writes about the rather bizarre claim issued by officials in Swaziland … Some months ago, the aviation authorities in Swaziland issued … Read more

LSE Students Union enforces a new Human right – The right not to be offended

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There appears to be a bit of a competition going on between the UK based Reading University students union (RUSU) and the London School of Economics students union. Last year we saw the RUSU get themselves worked up into a tizzy because student secular society had a Pineapple on their stall at the Fresher fayre labelled … Read more

Flordia Psychic found guilty of fraud and sent to jail

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First the basics – there are no psychic powers Before we start, let’s clarify one very important point … Nobody has “Psychic” powers, they do not exist and have never been successfully demonstrated under controlled conditions. Or to put that another way … they are all frauds … no exceptions. Ah but it is not … Read more