Are you for or against the Lisbon Treaty’s content? Do you approve of the way in which the Treaty has been put into place?
Two quite different questions if you think about it. Most people I think would answer No to both when in fact they mean No to the latter but don’t actually know anything [...]
Jumile recently blogged about Pascal’s Wager, here and here, and I read the comments on his thread with some interest. It seems the phrasing of the wager caused some confusion. Distinguishing between ‘a god’ and ‘God’ seems to be at the root of it.
I thought I might rewrite the Wager using ‘a deity’ and ‘The [...]
Any frequent visitors will have noticed the addition in the sidebar of the Atheist Blogroll. This list is tirelessly maintained by Mojoey here.
He has his own excellent blog here.
And contained within that blog is Hypocrisy Watch – an evergrowing list of religious leaders who are arrested and/or convicted. The sheer number of updates on this [...]
A school in England has suspended three pupils for buying a legal drug that gives a high.
This made me think about the line between good parenting/guidance and someone’s human rights. It also made me wonder about the right of institutions to change the boundaries of the law within their own walls, or even upon their [...]
The Archbishop of Canterbury has accused Members of Parliament of treating religious faith as an “eccentricity” practised by “oddities”.
He then goes on to refer to the Catholic church as an “eccentric option”.
Pot…Kettle? Kettle…Pot? That’s some awesome hypocrisy!
Anyway he claims that all three party leaders have a moral sense of some “spiritual flavour” which is wrong [...]
When the guy next to you orders the Halal meal and a vodka, it’s hard to supress your cynicism.
When you’re tired and hungry, four glasses of wine and a cognac in under an hour make it very hard to focus on the six inch screen only eighteen inches from your nose!
Sitting on an aisle [...]
After learning that Doctor Gillian McKeith is in fact just ‘Gillian McKeith’ and not quite as qualified as she is portrayed on TV I’ve had some skepticism of all the so-called experts on TV Programs. Tonight on Watchdog ‘Dr Lisa Ackerly’ was introduced as a Hygeine Expert. In my new-found cynicism I decided to check [...]
I’ve been using the Cochrane Organisations systemic reviews to look into the evidence for a number of popular beliefs on the efficacy of treatments. Here are the results I have found so far.
Glucosamine for Osteoarthritis
I was expecting to find a negative result here but the review is not quite so clear cut. One brand, Rotta, [...]
Yeah I really have been busy lately. I’ve been on holiday to the Lake District which was fantastic. I’ve been to TAM London which was awesome. I must blog about that … now!
TAM was an affirming experience. It was incredible to be around so many people who share the same view of the world as [...]
Science cuts away yet another Intelligent Design objection to Evolution: Wired Science
A great Atheist Blog with some really interesting commentary on he Bible. Some very similar points to my own articles on Free Will (and better written!): Daylight Atheism
Chris Brown’s assault on Rihanna is really God showing his goodness says Chris’s mum: Friendly Atheist