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Showing posts with label Skepticism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skepticism. Show all posts
Friday, 26 July 2013

Thought-provoking video about Intelligent Design

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What a thought provoking video about Intelligent Design, from The Thinking Atheist ! It ends up with this quote from Stephen Fry. ...
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Thursday, 11 July 2013

Another UK crisis - MPs pay

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The UK Government has imposed a 1% limit on the increase of salary for public sector workers for the next three years, having already frozen...
Sunday, 7 July 2013

Skeptical about Skeptoid - go for green instead!

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The Skeptoid podcast has been one of my favourites for two or three years, and Brian Dunning's analyses of the topics that he covers ge...
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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...
Sunday, 30 June 2013

Lennox's non-fairy tale?

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Oxford University Professor, John Lennox mumbled some incoherent nonsense (it is reported, e.g. here and here , and much better here ) at ...
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Friday, 7 June 2013

Brilliant people might not be the most productive

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I used to report to a director, but via matrix management work for another utterly brilliant man.  When it came to detail, I felt like an in...
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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...
Thursday, 23 May 2013

Atheists redeemed, but not yet saved

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It's official!  Atheists have been redeemed by the death of Jesus and it is possible for us to be good people, according to a story in ...
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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Saturday, 11 May 2013

Taqiyyah for dummies

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Taqiyyah for dummies
Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Kissing the Blarney Stone

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Even before I realised that I was a skeptic, I thought the tradition of kissing the Blarney Stone was an example of the Irish getting their ...
Friday, 3 May 2013

Adam Rutherford at Oxford Skeptics

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The speaker at Oxford Skeptics in the Pub this week was one of the best yet.  Adam Rutherford engaged an audience of about 60, speaking on t...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Clarke's First Law

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Today I was reminded of Arthur C Clarke's 'first law'.  Clarke was one of my favorite sci-fi authors as I grew up, and he is fam...
Monday, 22 April 2013

I feel like resigning . . .

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I feel like resigning . . . . . .  from public service because of what the UK Government is doing to the (already pitiful) pensions that w...
Friday, 19 April 2013

The Baghdad Batteries

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When do you think batteries were invented?  200 years ago or 2000? I tend to believe in the former, but some claim that some Sumerian arti...
Sunday, 14 April 2013

Creationist science . . . or is it?

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Over lunch last week I found myself in an interesting debate with a gentle and progressive Muslim friend and a gentle and polite Christian f...
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Thursday, 4 April 2013

Is Martin Robbins skeptical enough?

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Martin Robbins, blogger for the Guardian, spoke to a packed audience at Oxford Skeptics in the Pub this week.  It was not the usual venue (...
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Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Failed Tory leaders . . .

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Iain Duncan Smith ('IDS') used to be leader of the Conservative Party.  He didn't last long.  He wasn't exactly inspirationa...
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Saturday, 30 March 2013

Christ myth: some inconsistencies

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" Truth is not hard to kill but a lie well told is immortal " - - Mark Twain I know that it might be hard to accept that the sto...
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