Science Daily: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Polar bear on small iceberg. The planet is undergoing one of the largest changes in climate since the dinosaurs
You must must watch this. Hopefully I can embed the video. Watch it from 2.12pm onwards. This is why I love this country. Discussing philosophy fairly and squarely within the confines of our Parliamentary system (even if the House of Lords is our non-elected part). If I can't get it to embed, che
Here is my talk to the Dorset Humanists given this last week. It was really well received and got great feedback from audience and organisers alike. The video is of good quality though you may need to turn it up to hear some of the questions a little more clearly. The chops are out and looking might
I give regular counter-apologetic podcast segments to the Skepticule podcast and my last one has provoked some interesting debate online in certain forums. Here is my essential case: My segment this week will
Well, the Pope is shaking those old cloisters up! The BBC: Pope Francis: Who am I to judge gay people? Pope Francis has said gay people should not be marginalised but integrated into
I have a comment to answer on the original blog post Libertarian Free Will Defeats the Kalam Cosmological Argument and I thought I would not lose all the work to a comment forgotten in the annals of blog history. So here is the original post almost in full to remind you: Everything which begins to
After having looked at Randal Rauser's reasons for being a Christian, and having had my reasons and his defences intensely debated on his blog, I have in a previous post offered Dr Vincent Torley's account. Some readers may know Vincent from the Uncommon Descent website which attempts to refute evol
This hit the news yesterday on radio and TV. Fascinating stuff. This reported from Science Daily: July 25, 2013 — The phenomenon of false memory has been well-documented: In many court cases, defendants have been found guilty based on testimony from witnesses and victims who were sure of their re
I gave my first talk of this name this week to Dorset Humanists, covering five different arguments (4 against God and 1 for), allowing for audience participation after each argument. Personally, I really
Those of you across the pond may not have heard about the Church of England's broadside against the seedy world of payday loans. More 'reputable' companies have sprung up offering ridiculously high interest and low security loans to desperate people in need. The whole business is spurious and morall
It comes with some great surprise and sadness that John Loftus has decided to leave the Skeptic Ink Network, a platform which he co-founded with Ed Clint for which we are all exceptionally grateful. As you surely know, John is the author of some superb books, one of which I am due to soon review (Th
Tomas Rees runs a really interesting blog called [epiphenom] the science of belief and non-belief. Well worth visiting. This article reminded me of an earlier article of mine linking autistic people with a lack of belief. If you are an instinctive thinker, it seems, you are more likely to believe i