Selling Silence

A CD filled with … nothing at all except complete silence … has become a bit of a hit. It is a 30 minute recording of the inside of the village church of St Peter’s Church in Hangleton, Hove, done to raise funds to repair the building. An article on it reports … Roger Bing, 74, … Read more

Why do well-educated smart people reject scientific ideas?

There is a rather interesting article in Edge that has been written by Paul Bloom, a psychologist at Yale University, and also Deena Skolnick Weisberg, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Yale University. The paper is entitled “WHY DO SOME PEOPLE RESIST SCIENCE?”, and is in fact a modified version of a paper published in Science entitled … Read more

Islamic vigilantes in East London

There have been reports of Muslims out on the streets in east London harassing non-Muslims and verbally abusing them, not just people walking by, but stopping cars and going into hotels. There is a video at that previous link, apparently these complete twats filmed themselves doing all this. Well, since they had very kindly provided evidence … Read more

Allah is not very good at geography, biology or even maths.

Islam claims that its holy book, the Quran, was authored by a god, and apparently Allah recited it all to Muhammad through an angel called Gabriel. Because these are the words of a God it is claimed to be perfect and asserted to not be wrong. Is this a credible claim? To answer that we shall briefly wade … Read more

Atheist Blogger Stabbed Repeatedly by Suspected Islamist Fundamentalists

Asif Mohiuddin, 29, (pictured here) was viscously attacked late at night as he was leaving work by a group of unidentified men who waited for him then jumped and stabbed him repeatedly. Why would anybody do this? Well, Asif is a well-known atheist blogger in Bangladesh where he runs a Bengali blog titled “Almighty only … Read more

Religious boundaries are being crossed … and that is good news.

Today I’d like to point to an article by a Rabbi, not because I’ve suddenly decided to convert and embrace a god I do not believe in, but rather because the rabbi has a bit of rather good news … Muslim-Jewish marriages herald a brave new world Muslims and Jews in the UK are beginning to … Read more