Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Pictured above is Meriam Ibrahim with her husband, Daniel Wani, at their 2011 wedding. Today she sits on death row in Sudan for the “crime” of getting married to a non-Muslim. The new York Daily News reports … A distraught and desperate husband who traveled from New Hampshire to Sudan has been allowed to visit his … Read more
Does the Genesis story work as a metphor of our modern scientific understanding or is it at odds with even that?
A petition asking the UN High Commissioner to abolish Blasphemy Laws has been launched, the details are … We the signers humbly ask you to consider both a human rights petition and concern shared by a growing number of people persecuted for non-belief in religious dogma, including millions of atheists and agnostics around the world. … Read more
If you have ever debated with a deeply religious person, then perhaps you have come across the picture below, or some variation of it … Initially, you might be tempted to counter with, “Ah so you simply believe that god did it all by magic“, or similar … but if you do then you will be … Read more
This has simply got to be one of the most bizarre attempts at public dialog I have ever come across. On one side we have Ken Ham, the rather well-known creationist who believes the world is only 6000 years old (yes really just 6000 … despite the fact that we have trees older than that). On … Read more
Alas, I think I just broke my irony meter once again; yes the shiny new industrial strength one. The Christian Post reports on the details of the Freedom From Atheism Foundation (FFAF) as follows … Created in 2012 as a response to intolerant atheists seeking the removal of a Veterans Memorial that displayed religious symbols, the … Read more