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Showing posts with label Pseudoscience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pseudoscience. Show all posts
Friday, 5 July 2013

Downloading consciousness?

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Have you heard of the ' 2045 Project '?  I started to hear a few whispers about this fascinating and seemingly impossible idea recen...
Wednesday, 3 July 2013

The Wedge

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About 20 years ago, the Discovery Institute, that ivory tower of ' intelligent design ', was caught out.  Yes really! It was rev...
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Friday, 31 May 2013

How to 'age' a fossil the fundie way!

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I happened across this advice, thanks to a friend's Facebook page.  We wouldn't want to be led astray by science would we? How t...
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Thursday, 30 May 2013

The Times carries outrageous MMR headline

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Seeing a copy of UK newspaper The Times today I was outraged to see the headline " Babies at risk from MMR jab timebomb ".  After...
Monday, 27 May 2013

Does an intelligent designer solve the ID problem?

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Having been reading about the Cambrian Explosion which I mentioned recently , it might be a good time to contemplate the creation of informa...
Saturday, 25 May 2013

Perspectives on the Cambrian Explosion

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I must have been listening to too much pro-ID propaganda!  (I have!)  The proponents of Intelligent Design put up a superb, almost-convinci...
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Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Should psychics be prosecuted?

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If psychics offer their services to the police in order to solve a mystery or a crime and it all goes horribly wrong, which party should be ...
Monday, 13 May 2013

My two 'spirit guides'

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A dear friend told me today that I have invisible companionship. This is not just one spirit guide, but two!  Apparently not everyone is ...
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Thursday, 28 March 2013

Sanal Edamaruku in Oxford this week

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Sanal Edamaruku, President of the Indian Rationalist Association, was in Oxford this week, and he took the opportunity to speak to an audien...
Sunday, 24 March 2013

Sanal Edamaraku at Oxford Skeptics in the Pub

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On Monday evening this week, Oxford Skeptics in the Pub will host the Indian star skeptic Sanal Edamaraku. You can see some of his work in...
Monday, 18 March 2013

The surprising origins of YEC - 'The Genesis Flood'

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Young Earth Creationism (YEC) is a surprisingly recent phenomenon!  Yes - I know that some of the old arguments are based on the work of Arc...
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Friday, 8 March 2013

Only an opinion about nothing . . .

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Oxford Skeptics in the Pub had an unusually 'empty' talk this week, entitled " Why nothing matters ".  An I'm not sayi...
Thursday, 16 August 2012

ID - not even a theory

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Creationists dress up their wacky beliefs in a variety of ways.  'Intelligent Design' (ID) is one that has been quite popular in rec...
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Monday, 6 August 2012

Stenger 1 : God 0

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Today I am continuing (and completing) my commentary on contents of Victor Stenger's challenging but excellent book The Fallacy of Fine ...
Friday, 3 August 2012

Exposing finely tuned fallacies

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Yesterday I started to describe the contents of Victor Stenger's challenging book The Fallacy of Fine Tuning and referred to the list ...
Thursday, 2 August 2012

Fine tuning explained . . . or is it?

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I have been saving a book for holiday reading, and looking forward to understanding all about " The Fallacy of Fine Tuning ".  I h...
Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Creationist makes nearly ALL the common mistakes

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If you would like to practise spotting almost all the common mistakes that creationists make when the are speaking about evolution, I recom...
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