Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Salon rang up Jonathan Sacks, interviewed him, and managed to spin some truly absurd religious claims into an article they have published. How much of what comes up is actually the thinking of Mr Sacks, and how much is actually the Salon author’s agenda via a bit of quote mining, I honestly don’t know, but either way it … Read more
OK, so this is not so serious today and concerns the musings of a Christian playing “What if” in response to a satire clip by Bill Maher. I’ll post Bill’s religious conversion clip at the end (it’s a bit of hilarious satire), but first lets take a look at what this lady has been dreaming … Read more
David Martin writes over in the Huff Po an article entitled “What Falls Between Agnostic and Atheist?” within which he is pondering what is the correct label that he should utilise to describe himself. It’s interesting to pause and consider it because it gives me an excuse to mull over the use of such labels. … Read more
It’s always interesting to examine some of these claims when they pop up. People believe, I get that, but how can people truly believe in the absence of any really objective independently verifiable evidence? The answer is that they truly think that they do have evidence, and so we have an example of exactly this … Read more
This is simply hilarious and is indeed a lesson in people not really understating the consequences of their actions. The Friendly Atheist blogs about it all and starts by setting the scene as follows … In January of 2013, World Changers of Florida, Inc. held Bible distributions at a number of public high schools in Orange County, … Read more
So yes, finding a headline claiming “Militant Atheist converts” is perhaps click-bait, and yet I’m always curious to understand what makes people tick. The specific article in question comes from TheBlaze, and that fact alone should motivate you to question the accuracy of anything it says at all. Why? Well, let me put it this way, … Read more