Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
There is what appears on the surface to be a very strange claim in a Guardian article (24th Nov) written by Brian Whitaker entitled, “British fear of Islamists and Saudi fears about atheists are two sides of the same coin“. There are of course things that Brian writes that I do agree with,and so when I … Read more
An objection to reality that many of those that believe in gods will promote is the idea that people are better off if they embrace such myths. As an example we have a recent letter-to-the-editor type of format for this claim here in the Indiana Gazette … Science hasn’t proven the existence of God, but … Read more
I previously wrote last August about the plans that the Creationist Museum has for building a life size replica of Noah’s Ark by using state funds. If you missed that and have no idea what I am on about then here is a quick catch-up. These are the people who believe that 6,000 years ago … Read more
Yes, it is yet another “God-did-it” claim, and this time it is an article entitled “Ex-atheist professor says God responsible for Big Bang“. So here is what we have … NEW ORLEANS – A Tulane physics professor is working on a project that’s getting attention around the country – he’s trying to prove mathematically and through … Read more
So the Christian News Network, has an article entitled “Renowned Chemist Says Evolutionists Do Not Understand the Origin of Life“, and that surprises me because the word, “Evolutionist” is one that tends to be utilised by highly religious folks taking an anti-science stance and is not a word deployed by “renowned chemists”, thus I was curious … Read more
A few days ago, I was presented with a blog posting on a site called Creation Science Study that listed a collection of rather extreme religious views regarding science. It masqueraded as a list of questions that Atheists would supposedly find impossible to answer and was of course stuff that pushed a lot of my hot … Read more