Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
And so it continues … another generation of people on both sides are committing themselves to their on-going mutual destruction. Tempting as it might be to take sides, or justify the actions of one side by listing the crimes of the other, I won’t. Both have much in common. The stunning silence – The Israelis will point … Read more
I have two Star related items for you today. 100,000 Stars Google has launched a new Chrome Experiment called “100,000 Stars,” which provides a stunning look at the stars that arerelatively close to Earth – you know, just a few light years away. Google explains … Visualizing the exact location of every star in the galaxy is … Read more
Its an exciting find, there is now clear evidence that the common ancestor of both humans and Neanderthals hunted with stone tipped spears … half a million years ago. Let that number sink in. The specific news is that we knew that stone spears were in use 300,000 years ago, but a new study now pushes … Read more
Why oh why is always the religious who spout complete and utter bollocks on an almost regular basis by manifesting magical thinking. Today we have the Rev Dr Peter Mullen, a priest of the Church of England, writing in the Guardian yesterday about the solar eclipse. There he writes … The sun is huge and … Read more
The Irish Time reports today on the utterly tragic and completely needless death of Savita Halappanavar. At 17 weeks into her pregnancy she was admitted to hospital with chronic pain because she was having a miscarriage. There was no chance that the fetus would survive. In excruciating pain, Savita asked for an abortion. The hospital, University Hospital Galway in Ireland, refused. Why? … Read more
There are two specific Facebook groups I’m in that have rather similar names, but are dominated by very different views. One, entitled ATHEISM DEBUNKED BY MUSLIMEEN (their caps not mine) is dominated by various strands of Islamic thought, and rather bizarrely has a rule against logic and reason. No really, it reads, “Members are requested not to involve in … Read more