Adam Deen is a Muslim apologist famous in the UK for defending, publicly, the philosophy and theology of Islam often touching on scientific contexts. Skydivephil is an awesome duo who you might remember from here who often have William Lane Craig in their sights (where in the linked video they o
So this is something a little bit different for you. I have twin toddler boys, and here is an article published in the latest TAMBA magazine (Twins and Multiple Birth Association). Twintastic! It
Three British Christians who argued that their beliefs saw them wrongly disciplined by their employers for actions such as refusing to counsel same-sex couples have lost their legal battle at the European court of human rights.
Just in case you haven't seen this old chestnut, or in case you had forgotten its supremely annoying rational defeater, watch again: http://youtu.be/S-fDyPU3wlQ
Yup, you heard it here. The plagues. God getting involved right up to his neck in magic stuff. People and animals dying all over the shop. Frogs; gnats; darkness; rivers of blood; boils; hail; firstborns of Egyptian families and animals dying. AND THEN the army getting destroyed by a parted sea comi
Many animals -- from locusts to fish -- live in groups and swarm, but scientists aren't sure why or how this behavior evolved. Now a multidisciplinary team of Michigan State University scientists has used a model system to show for the first time that predator confusion can make prey evolve swarming
My local Conservative MP voted against including a clean energy target in an amendment to the Energy Bill. There's a great action and pressure internet group called 28 degrees which famously succeeded in changing the governments mind on forestry called 38 degrees. They mobilise people virtually to p
This is a great quote from Daydreamer1 in response to a recent post on the Energy Secretary declaring that AGW is a dead cert and that science denialism, including from the media, is
(CNN) – For Southern Baptist pastor Tim Reed, it was Scripture versus the Scouts. “God’s word explicitly says homosexuality is a choice, a sin,” said Reed, pastor of First Baptist Church of Gravel Ridge in Jacksonville, Arkansas. So when the Boy Scouts of America voted to lift its ban on openl
Russ chimed in on my Why I Am An Atheist post, in response to Randal Rauser's request for a paragraph or two on my reasons for my worldview. Johno, does Rauser think he is going to refute all the "Why I Am An Atheist(or not a Christian)" paragraphs that you and the others wrote? If he thinks he
Energy Secretary Ed Davey is to make an unprecedented attack later on climate change sceptics. In a speech, the Lib Dem minister will complain that right-wing newspapers are undermining science for political ends. He is set to accuses climate sceptics of nimbyism, publicity-seeking, and "blink
Those who founded the Republic in 1923 might well be turning in their graves: their vision of Turkey as a strictly secularist and nationalist state - not just a separation of state and religion, but also the removal of religion from all aspects of public life - is being questioned. In the lead-up