Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Back in July two researchers at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga considered the idea that atheists and agnostics fell into distinct categories, so they conducted a study to find out what those categories were. From this they identified six different types (yes, I blogged about it before). It attracted rather a lot of attention at … Read more
Rebecca Searles has a rather simple little test on the HuffPo for you to use to determine if you are a Feminist. Now don’t panic, it’s fracking simple, so buckle up your seatbelts,because here it is … See, I told you it was easy … so did you pass?
Often when debating believers, a rather common tact taken is to hear something akin to the following declaration, “OK, you as an Atheist can do whatever you want, but I much prefer decency as defined in the Bible“. That of course is the cue to point out that the Bible endorses genocide and slavery as … Read more
One of the most popular apps around is YouVersion. This is a free Bible app that contains over 700 different translations and has been downloaded by 115 million people, so is perhaps one of the most popular apps out there. Well yes, so there are lots of religious people, but then you knew that anyway. Now … Read more
Sharon Hill has been writing about the horrendous experience she has had inflicted upon her by her previous web-hosting provider in the past couple of days… I spent a harrowing Friday and Saturday moving my Doubtful News site to a new host after a crapload of issues from my existing host … The final straw came from their … Read more
The fact that I need to add the word “Satire” to the title tells you that it is in fact very challenging to deploy Satire within a Saudi context. In fact, the pronouncements and actions of the various clerics make it almost impossible to discern the line between the things that are satire and the … Read more