Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
Enough said.
Jonathan MS Pearce
On Chapman Cohen, an Early Secularist
I have just been sent some writing by Chapman Cohen, and had only heard of him through some emails from the same person previously, so wiki-ed him, and thought I would share the
Adam & Eve as Bad Test Cases, and God's Moral Culpability
There is a two-horned dilemma concerning Adam and Eve that Christians of any persuasion (who take the pair's existence as somehow true, and certainly see the Fall as making sense) must
"The Definition of Prejudice" - Defending Naturalistic Philosophy
One of the members of the Tippling Philosophers, from which this blog derives its name, is very suspicious of naturalism in all of its guises, and what it means for psychology, science, causality
Some Quality Summer Reading
Just before you set off on your summer holidays, please consider grabbing a copy of my first fictions book: Survival of the Fittest: Metamorphosis. It has received some high praise and I would
National first: University of Westminster appoints paid BHA accredited Secular Adviser
The BHA reports: The University of Westminster has broken new ground by appointing the UK’s first ever paid pastoral adviser for non-religious people. Isabel Millar, the university’s new Secular Adviser, comes
The Argument from Format - How the Cartesian soul cannot be the originator of free will
This is a piece I wrote a number of years ago and I always interested in what people think of such ideas. It's a longer essay, so settle down this Sunday
Obama First President to Author Academic Journal Paper. He's too Cool.
I am a pretty big fan of Obama. He is on the money on so many things. Yes, he will get grief over drones (but I wonder how much of that are others,
Can Science Test Supernatural Worldviews? Pretty much...
Yonatan Fishman, PhD, Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, wrote a really interesting paper contesting the idea that science and the supernatural do not overlap, and that there is no way
Please complete this short survey against homeopathy funding in UK
Please help to put a stop to the NHS/state funding of homeopathy. The Good Thinking Society has launched a long-running campaign to work out the funding across different NHS groups and organisations
First Humanist "Thought of the Day" on BBC Radio (Gaelic)
For years the BHA has been trying to get a humanist voice on the famous Radio 4 slot of "Thought of the Day" which is universally carried out by religious leaders.
Saudi Arabia, the UK, Al-Qaeda, the Yemen. What a Recipe.
This video is a great expose of the proper shitstorm that is the Yemen right now. And we in the UK. as far as our government is concerned, are probably not helping matters.