Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Today the BBC has reported that a Bible Society survey has found that many people don’t know the Bible. OK, I get that, we live in a post-belief age, so that’s not such a bad thing in many ways. Ah but wait … they also report “Many of the parents who responded saw the Bible … Read more
OK, so I blogged about it in detail yesterday and truly thought I was done, but no, an article has appeared in the Guardian that provokes me to return once again to the topic – “Bill Nye v Ken Ham: should scientists bother to debate creationism?“. The argument is one that I do have a … Read more
Well having previously blogged about it, I stayed up late (really late, I’m in the UK) to watch this, and as I did so I made a few notes. [If you have time, just skip my notes and watch the YouTube recording (below). First my overall Summary: Bill nailed in … Ken did the usual … Read more
Today is the day that Ken Ham, the creationist kook (boo), and Bill Nye the science guy (yea), go head to head in debate … oh sorry, did I betray an ever so slight bias there? Well, the facts are that creationism has no evidence, zero, nada, zilch and is just wrong. There is no … Read more
Kashif Chaudhry, a graduate of King Edward Medical University in Lahore and Mt Sinai University Hospital in New York, has written an article entitled “I left the US because of their hatred towards Muslims… this is my story“, in The Express Tribune, a major daily English-language newspaper in Pakistan. A well-educated chap taking about US … Read more
Carrying on from yesterday where I wrote about British Muslim Maajid Nawaz getting death threats in response to tweeting a Jesus & Mo picture and explaining that he was not offended by it, would you now believe that Channel4News did a report on it, and in the process they actually censored the Jesus & Mo cartoon in fear of … Read more