Circle of life
OK, so just an opportunity to wax lyrical about my favourite band, James. This is a great song with a beautifully creative video. Wonderful stuff, written about the death of Tim Booth'
Jonathan MS Pearce
On the Margin of Error's excellent review
Kaveh over at On the Margin of Error on Freethought Blogs has read Beyond an Absence of Faith and has given a great review. Here is an excerpt. Check it the full review over at FTB: Beyond an Absence of Faith is an anthology of 16 accounts of atheists talking about their deconversion and struggle w
My favourite atheist comedy video
I have posted this some time back. If you don't mind Aussie swearing, then watch this diamond piece of comedy: http://youtu.be/wjUQR3Z7FHU
An attack on egalitarianism and the worst post and comments I have ever seen
I have recently had a conversation on facebook that left me truly flabbergasted. I think it qualifies as the most jaw-dropping conversation I have had. It was with someone whom I did teacher-training with (though who chose not to finish the course). Now I wouldn't normally go into detail about pers
Sudanese woman who married a non-Muslim sentenced to death
This has been an ongoing saga which is nothing short of depressing. As the Guardian reports: Amnesty International joins condemnation of death penalty for Sudanese doctor found guilty of 'apostasy' for marrying Christian President Omar al-Bashir, an Islamist who seized power in a 1989 coup in
First Atheist Hymnal
Brilliant: http://youtu.be/lFWA1A9XFi8
Beyond an Absence of Faith - a cracking read!
The new book that I have co-edited with Tristan Vick called Beyond an Absence of Faith: Stories About the Loss of Faith and the Discovery of Self has been really favourably reviewed by those who have read it, and hopefully some of those reviews will filter trough the internet.
Theology, a con
"Christianity teaches the sublime message that man can know his Creator. It does not teach that man can fathom his Creator!." - all these sorts of claims do is inoculate God
On editing memories
I reported in my Free Will? book that we can laser in memories to fruit flies, so it was only a matter of time before such procedures were contextualised to humans. Scientific American reports:
Stephen Law at Wycombe Skeptics in the Pub - be there!
One of the Skeptics Groups I have talked to before is hosting another SINner, philosopher Stephen Law. Here are the details, make sure you try to get there if you can! When? Wednesday,
Slugging out the incoherence of the Trinity
Gah! I posted my Trinity piece with some alterations on John Loftus' Debunking Christianity where I used to be a more full-time contributor. It was picked up by some Catholic chap who tried to critique it, except that he really didn't deal with the substantive points.
My appearance on the Skeptic Canary Podcast, with Dan Fincke
I really enjoyed being a guest on the Skeptic Canary Show podcast where we covered lots of issues and philosophy, including Neil deGrasse Tyson's dismissal of philosophy. It was great to