It comes with great sadness to announce that my favourite podcast of all time, Reasonable Doubts, will no longer continue to be. This upsets me because there is no greater podcast on the internet than this one. RD has been with me for a good number of years and has provided ample stimuli for me to p
The Atonement is one of those funny things in Christianity. It is the central tenet, the main raison d'etre of the whole shebang. Jesus existed as God incarnate in order to be sacrificed and die in order to pay for our sins, past, present and future. Only it makes absolutely no sense. In very
You can't beat it when such incisive atheology is delivered in such a trivial and comedic way: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPriOQkKd6k[/youtube] Well done the Pythons!
Franz Kiekeben studied (University of South Florida) and taught (Ohio State University) philosophy, having written for the SKEPTIC magazine and published academic articles on determinism and time travel. He recently sent me a book he has written called The Truth About God to review.
Yes, you heard me, tomatoes. I am devastated. My harvest of about three hundred tomatoes has been decimated. Tomato blight. Gutted. The yield would have been my best ever, and they were very healthy looking.
This is so important an article (and paper it is derived from) that I had to share it. The final few paragraphs are powerful. Climate skeptics who claim to be the "real scientists" are so very wrong. It's about time climate scientists fought back! From the Guardian: Those who reject the 97% exper
My new ebook is available now on Kindle, Nook and Kobo. James A. Lindsay (Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly) kindly wrote a foreword to support the project.
The great comedy character for Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe has a field day with philosophy:
These are truly beautiful words from Robert G Ingersoll, as taken from the superb site which has a fine selection of his writing, curated by a friend of mine: Reason and the Brain
This is a really good excerpt from the political discourse programme "This Week" on the BBC:
This article comes from Think Progress and details some work carried out by Adam Lankford on mass shootings, released four days ago, just prior to the latest in a long line of US
This article is from the National Geographic and should put paid to some Creationists claims that we cannot see evolution in action: Evolution has been caught in the act, according to scientists who are decoding how a species of Australian lizard is abandoning egg-laying in favor of live birth.