Carroll vs Craig, tomorrow.
So, God and cosmology will be debated tomorrow as cosmologist Sean Carroll takes on theologian William Lane Craig. I, for one, am excited. Should be a cracker. I know Carroll has been inundated
Jonathan MS Pearce
Scaramanga takes on Accelerated Christian Education. And wins.
Jonny Scaramanga came to do a talk about his experiences with Christian education at Portsmouth Skeptics in the Pub recently. I was gutted to have missed it - I was really looking forward to that one. However, keeping a tab on his blog, it seems clear that he is embroiled in a right ding-dong with h
African Union: We Cannot Ignore The Plight Of Berkshire Any Longer
Some of you the other side of the Atlantic may not know that the Gulf Stream which predominantly dictates weather as it pushes systems from North and Central America over to Europe, has been stuck. For months. This has meant the cold air from the North American weather issues has met warmer air from
Randal Rauser has a pop at me
A few weeks back, theologian, author and blogger Randal Rauser had a pop at me. We have previously had a few cross-posts and whatnot, and even debated on US radio/Reasonable Doubts podcast on the subject of the Nativity, which can be found here. Luke, a theist who regularly comments here,, also comm
Nigeria's Boko Haram 'in village massacre'
Boko Haram at it again. Sheesh. Fundamentalism. BBC: Northern Nigeria is under emergency rule, but attacks have intensified Suspected Islamist militants have raided a Nigerian village and murdered dozens, according to witnesses. The
Dale Hansen Defends Michael Sams in Jaw Dropping Speech on Gay NFL Players
http://youtu.be/mAeS0bCAmjE What a fantastic commentary here. Excellent. More of that, thanks. One point which I have made before is that conservative vs liberal politics is inherently incoherent: Right-wing = tiny government
The Water and the Flood
OK, so most people of neutral, skeptical or commonsensical persuasion understand that the global flood claims of Genesis are nonsense. Yet the meme still persists amongst literalists and fundamentalists. I love GearHeadEd's comment over on DC. It shows that that much water is truly a ridiculous conc
The Ark before Noah
There has been a number of articles on this due, perhaps, to a Channel 4 Documentary on this due to be shown in August (that's a long way off!). It seems that instructions for the Ark in the Bible were lifted from an earlier source (which is no surprise since the flood account is lifted from the Gil
List of TV and Film Atheists
Just thought this list of atheists in film and television, from wikipedia, was interesting: * Douglas Adams (1952–2001): British radio and television writer and novelist.[1] * Mary Adams (1898–1984): English producer and
Quote of the day by Andy Schueler (again!)
Brilliant: The fundamental question here, is whether Yahweh explains things as they are better than the alternatives. I don´t see how that is an explanation" at all, an explanation" reduced
New Camel Domestication Research Challenges Biblical Historicity
A Tel Aviv University Press Release has built on work hinted at in Israel Finkelstein's The Bible Unearthed which claimed that camels were not domesticated in the Ancient Near East to long after they are claimed to be existent and members of a goodly number of biblical stories. In other words, these
William Lane Craig is either lying, or getting things very wrong.
William Lane Craig is ubiquitous in conversations about theistic and Christian apologetics. Being the foremost modern philosopher/theologian still operating, he is often called upon or used as a source for theistic and Christian arguments, winning many debates in the process (on technique and rhetor