Tom Clark is the Director for the Center for Naturalism (CFN), an organisation which harbours the excellent resource Naturalism.Org. The Mission for CFN is stated as follows: The Center for Naturalism (CFN) is an educational and advocacy organization devoted to increasing public awareness of natu
Some interesting fossil news from Science Daily: May 14, 2013 — An international team of scientists have revealed a new species of ichthyosaur (a dolphin-like marine reptile from the age of dinosaurs) from Iraq, which revolutionises our understanding of the evolution and extinction of these ancie
Due to the fact that wiki has some great starter articles, and I don't necessarily have the time to write some of my own, but feel that there are some people who deserve greater notoriety. As a result, once in a while, I will randomly copy over an interesting wiki article and perhaps promote discuss
I wrote this some time ago at Debunking Christianity Let us assume the triple properties of the classical approach to God: that he is omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. In terms of the classic Problem of Evil argument, if there is too much evil in the world, God knows what to do about it,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7EEOMbBIO8 I suggest watching this, but the video is set not to be embeddable. Below is a video without the extra bits: South Park Proved Right About
I researched about this for my first book, Free Will? As a teacher I am acutely aware of this, but it seems like nothing is ever done. However, the stats have consistently supported the fact that there is a problem with achievement and self-confidence. Let me explain. In the Uk, for example, chil
"And I want to suggest to you that it is not only tiresome, when otherwise intelligent people speak this way, it is morally reprehensible. This kind of faith is the perfection of narcissism; God loves me, don't you know? He cured me of my eczema. He makes me feel so good while singing in church. And
This is interesting, though the numbers are inaccurate given that the census has become voluntary, and, as such, the completion rate for the census was very low. OTTAWA – A nation of non-believers? The new National Household Survey suggests we could be becoming so.
I went to see local fellow skeptic at Portsmouth Skeptics in the Pub the other night. Crispian Jago has a great blog called Reason Stick and is fairly famous for some of the images that he has created, some of which I have tweeted and blogged. Here are a few below:
I was wondering when this issue would be raised by the bigger media outlets. The BBC reports: Three young women disappeared in Cleveland. Media coverage of their cases illustrates stereotypes about race. Charles
Last week, I introduced you to John W. Loftus and Randal Rauser's new debate-style book, God or Godless? I am now going to furnish you with a review. I commend Baker Books for sending me a review copy.
A year after Amanda Berry disappeared in Cleveland, her mother appeared on "The Montel Williams Show" to speak to a psychic about what happened to her daughter. Psychic Sylvia Browne, who has made a career of televised psychic readings, told Louwanna Miller on a 2004 episode of the show that her