So I have written a number of times about Gove and his penchant for free market economics in school and his libertarian approach to education. And how it totally sucks. Well, his Free School initiative is terrible and is faltering as the days go by. Between Free Schools and Academies, he is doing a
Tristan Vick (Advocatus Atheist) and myself are editing a book of deconversion anthologies entitled Beyond an Absence of Faith. It has been, unfortunately, on the backburner for a whole since our workloads have been phenomenal. There are a potential couple of exciting additions to the anthologies of
Childhood poverty and chronic stress may lead to problems regulating emotions as an adult, according to research published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Aaron Adair, as you well know, has recently written a book which I edited and which is getting rave reviews. Here is a presentation on the historicity of Jesus which he recently gave which looks at the whole broad topic, touching on the Star later in the talk. This is a fascinating talk, though am o
El Salvador has one of the toughest anti-abortion laws in the world. A side-effect is that women who suffer miscarriages are sometimes suspected of inducing an abortion - and can even be jailed for murder.
As you will know from a couple of previous posts, I have edited a book by Aaron Adair about the Star of Bethlehem, called The Star of Bethlehem: A Skeptical View. Check it
Check out this map. In this day and age, this is nothing short of a shocker. I simply cannot believe the UN hasn't got any binding laws against it's
This is a disgrace. This is what our schools are coming to given the government's insistence that anyone can set up schools (Free Schools). This is just an excuse for ideological indoctrination. Here is an email the British Humanist Association sent me:
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So, us in the rest of the world can see that the Republican Party in the US are several sandwiches short of a picnic, holding the country and perhaps the world to ransom.
In refutation of the argument for "free moral agency," Ingersoll once used the following illustration, -- itself an argument as clear as it is unanswerable: -- "It is insisted that man is free, and is responsible, because he knows right from wrong. But the compass does not navigate the ship; neit
SO this is a few years old now, but this debate is great. Jeremy Beahan, presenter on Reasonable Doubts podcast and radio show, calmly deconstructs every argument this rather smarmy apologist gives. I enjoyed listening to this one, and I hope to hear Beahan do more debates. Good stuff.