Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Apparently the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) biology textbooks had once taught that the existence of the Loch Ness monster disproved Darwin’s theory of evolution. OK, you can stop laughing now … this was no joke, they have actually been teaching kids that the proof that evolution was wrong was a completely fictitious myth. Really? Sadly yes … … Read more
Bangladesh blogger Asif Mohiuddin was brutally stabbed by the Islamists, and then arrested for the crime of being an atheist. He was let out on bail on 27th June and had applied for permanent bail, but the Dhaka Tribune now reports … A Dhaka court on Monday afternoon sent blogger Asif Mohiuddin to jail, rejecting his plea … Read more
Irish politics can be quite frankly insane at times, for example it is the only nation on the planet that has managed to pack a war of independence and a civil war into a six month period. Ah but there is an even better example, they have a blasphemy law that was introduced not too … Read more
The BBC has an interesting little article all about temporary Islamic marriages, or to be more precise, temporary short term marriage as practised within Shia Islam called Nikāḥ al-Mutʿah; that’s Arabic for “pleasure marriage”, and that name perhaps gives you an insight into what this is really all about. The BBC article takes the following line … … Read more
Last March interior designer Marte Deborah Dalelv was raped while on a business trip to Dubai, so she reported it to the police. The result … she was arrested, put on trail, and then sentenced this week to 16 months in jail … Why? Well basically because she was guilty of having sex outside of … Read more
The tale of the “Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen is all about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new “clothes” nobody dares say the rather obvious truth, and then a child cries … Read more