Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
To the outsider looking in, a system of belief can appear to be one huge collective with some minor variations, but more or less the same. It may in fact be very tempting to view all those with a belief in god as one unified group. In reality, the degree of fragmentation tends to be … Read more
This posting is a regular one where I put up a list of Weird Religious News that has popped up during the past seven day. Religious belief is generally accepted by most without giving it too much thought. It is simply part of a cultural inheritance. Most who believe tend to be decent honourable people … Read more
Whenever something dramatic happens, for example 9/11 or a school shooting, you are more or less guaranteed to find somebody popping up to explain that it is all part of some plot, and that behind this event there are puppet masters pulling the strings manipulating events. It’s supposedly a conspiracy of epic proportions. The Puppet … Read more
Mammal extinction is not simply something from the dim and distant past. In 1680 Sir Ewen Cameron killed the last Scottish Wolf in Killiecrankie (Perthshire). In 1786, the last wolf was killed in Ireland. So what other mammals once existed in the British Isles and when did they go extinct? Here is a brief list (culled from here) … Read more
If you have ever wondered what the mission of the Environmental Protection Agency actually is, then perhaps I should point out that the name is an ever so subtle hint. Permit me to decrypt it for you. The first word clearly points to it being something to do with to the environment and then the … Read more
We all like to believe that the choices and decisions we make are well informed and wise. In reality many of us will make some rather poor choices. When it comes to food, or to be a bit more specific, Nutrition, then how well informed are when you make a selection? A popular idea is that … Read more