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Thursday, 31 March 2011

Might religion go extinct?

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A surprising new paper was presented at the recent meeting of the American Physical Society.  I know a lot of engineers and physicists, but ...
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Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Another £25 billion lost to us?

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"Some £25bn every year is thought to be lost to the public purse by wealthy tax avoiders. This money needs to be recouped to help save...
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Obscene wealth

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This picture from the march in London says it all. Of course out millionaire ministers wouldn't want to do anything to make this fai...
Monday, 28 March 2011

Tax is for the little people

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Its only fair to ask that the wealthiest people in UK pay their share of taxes.  Isn't it?  Nobody is asking for anything punitive - or...
Sunday, 27 March 2011

On the performance of the BBC

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With regard to the march in central London today: It is my impression that the BBC downplays any criticism of the government I feel that ...
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Saturday, 26 March 2011

March for the alternative

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March 26th - the march for the alternative to the government cuts in London.  Estimates of the number of people attending vary but my collea...
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Christian terrorists all around us?

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One aspect of terrorism has been defined as "use of threats of violence for the purpose of creating fear in order to achieve a religiou...
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Friday, 25 March 2011

Was hell 'invented' by gentle Jesus?

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What are the origins of the concept of hell? Christopher Hitchens claims that in the Old Testament there is effectively no concept of hell...
Thursday, 24 March 2011

Simple christianity

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“The Christian believer is a simple person: Bishops should protect the faith of their little people against the power of intellectuals”  -  ...
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011

The Peace of Cod

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An American christian friend has just bravely launched a new blog and I was reading the first few entries.  I was so glad to read the moving...
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Vexed by demons

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According to Carl Sagan, in his great book "The Demon Haunted World", 1996 (p116), St Augustine was 'much vexed with demons...
Monday, 21 March 2011

Facebook's 'A' week event

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Atheists in Facebook have been invited to change their profile picture for this weekend join an event that you can find by clicking on this ...
Sunday, 20 March 2011

The Forer Effect

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The Forer Effect , (or as it is sometimes known, the Barnum Effect ) gives a little insight into one of the tools used by psychics in '...
Saturday, 19 March 2011

Probability taken personally

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A rationalist view is that 'luck is just probability taken personally'. Sadly I can't attribute this as the author has remaine...
Friday, 18 March 2011

A couple of quotations

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There have been no anti-religious posts here recently, so these go a little way to make up for that. "The lion may lay down with the ...
Thursday, 17 March 2011

Not ghostly spirits - just proof!

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Until 1 January 1980, the United Kingdom defined alcohol content in terms of “proof spirit”, which was defined as the most dilute spirit tha...
Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Gallows humour

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When William Palmer, English 19th century doctor and convicted poisoner, stood on the trap door of the gallows in 1886, his last words were...
Tuesday, 15 March 2011

Why are wrist watches so accurate?

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Wrist watches only contain standard quartz crystals but many people observe that they seem much more accurate than clocks in other environme...
Monday, 14 March 2011

Fire Walking

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Fire walking is a remarkable spectacle and looks very dangerous. So how does it work when it is obviously not a case of mind over matter or ...
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Sunday, 13 March 2011

The UK census 2011

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The time for the national census is nearly upon us, and nobody living in the UK can be unaware of the furore about a few of the questions.  ...