Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Fox News host Dana Perino commented during a live segment on ‘Five on Fox,’ that she’s ‘tired of Atheists’ and suggests that if they (Atheists) don’t like the words “under God” being said in the Pledge of Allegiance then “they don’t have to live here. The context here is that Massachusetts’ highest court is hearing a … Read more
The short answer is “Yes”. There is of course the rather common experience of a complete dismissal of facts and a continuous assertion of debunked claims. A rather extreme example concerned a posting in which a Muslim quotes Darwin writing about the evolution of the eye being absurd. In response, it was quickly pointed out that … Read more
The rather sad news is that Sushmita Banerjee, the Indian woman who wrote a book about her dramatic account of escaping Taliban-ruled Afghanistan nearly two decades ago has been murdered by some religious thugs. The Guardian reports … The author Sushmita Banerjee, who married an Afghan and lived for years in a remote rural area, became a celebrity in India when her … Read more
Maryam Namazie has an update on what has been happening, I’m reproducing it in full here without any edits or additional comment … As you know, following an interview on Channel 4 on Sharia law, Islamists threatened Sudanese secular campaigner and Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain Spokesperson Nahla Mahmoud with death, calling her a “Kafira” and “Murtada” who has offended Islam and … Read more
There is a rather fascinating article in the Guardian that lists 20 big questions in science for which we simply do not have answers at the moment. This is all very interesting because it helps to define the boundary between what we know and where we are going next, in other words, it defines some … Read more
I recently came across a site that contains rather a lot of details about the famous Scopes Monkey Trial that took place in 1925. The site is a legal one and contains all the details of the scopes trail itself and also insights into what happened and why it happened, stuff I quite frankly never … Read more