Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
I do hope you are aware that a death sentence has been given to Youcef Nadarkhani. His hideous crime is that he was born to Muslim parents and so has been sentenced to death by hanging in Iran for refusing to recant and convert back to Islam. This is an affront to universal moral values. At … Read more
Donal Blaney, a senior partner with Griffin Law, asks a very good question on his blog. I repeat it in full here … Is anyone else deafened by the silence of Britain’s self-styled Islamic community leaders? I say this in the context of the impending death of Yusef Nadarkhani, an Iranian Christian who is an … Read more
The Onion, everybody’s favorite source for satire, has given us all a good laugh with headlines such as … ‘9/11 Conspiracy Theories Ridiculous’ – Al Qaeda You can find the satire they did on that uploaded to YouTube back in 2008 here on 1st April (well come on, what other date could they possibly pick), … Read more
Andrew Brown’s latest blog posting draws a distinction between Creationists : the folks who claim evolution is a lie and God did it all asis Believers who believe in a Creator: they tend to accept evolution and would simply claim that is how god did it, that there is a plan, and because we can … Read more
Andrew Brown writes in the Guardian (with a picture of some bloke setting things up at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky) … At least creationists have given it some thought. Would you rather an indifferent or a passionately wrong child in the science classroom? Let’s not simply sneer at Darwin deniers If you read … Read more
The CEMB (Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain) has a list. It is a very very long list that runs for page after page of members who have renounced Islam, and they each explain very bravely in public why they have done so. It fact, they have two distinct categories, both of which run on for … Read more