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Saturday, 10 March 2012

Things Christians Say, Part 6: Can't prove there is no god

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A weekly series of responses to the things christians say to atheists, based on the video reproduced here on 30th January 2012 .  The a...
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Friday, 9 March 2012

Europium protects the currency

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You may have heard the expression that nobody counterfeits bad currency.  As it happens, they do.  At the moment the Euro does not quite fit...
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Thursday, 8 March 2012

Keep Fusion's intellectual property public

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USA is proposing to close down one of its most significant 'magnetic-confinement' nuclear fusion facilities next year to save cost. ...
Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Amazing Hitchslap Index: part 1.

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Here is the first instalment of 'The Amazing Hitchslap Index' , summarising the content of the first 7 of the 66 ' Hitchslaps ...
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Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Christianity distilled

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This succinct appraisal of the christian faith comes from an article about Atheist Discrimination by Dave Gamble. Atheist evangelists a...
Monday, 5 March 2012

The Amazing Hitchslap Index

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Many (if not most) of the readers of Something Surprising will be familiar with the work of Christopher Hitchens.  Probably you will have...
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Sunday, 4 March 2012

Redemption and the New Atheists?

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In last week's Sunday Telegraph - nominally a respectable British newspaper -  there was a ridiculous and desperate attempt to criticis...
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Saturday, 3 March 2012

Things Christians Say, Part 5: Just go out and kill!

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A weekly series of responses to the things christians say to atheists, based on the video reproduced here on 30th January 2012 .  The ai...
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Friday, 2 March 2012

De-baptismal certificate

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It is tempting to think that other readers on the web know much more than me already, but just once in a while it is possible to realise tha...
Thursday, 1 March 2012

Robbing people of hope?

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Bloggers who consistently seem to attack religion are sometimes criticised for their efforts.  They might find themselves labelled 'aggr...
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Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Why this might become a Reddit-free zone

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It is possible that the Reddit buttons might disappear from this blog.  I honestly haven't decided, but I think you might be interested ...
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Thomas Paine - the first 'New Atheist'?

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Thomas Paine , author of The Age of Reason , had an ' interesting ' involvement in the French Revolution.  At the time he was living...
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Monday, 27 February 2012

Greatest adversary of Yahweh

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Following on from yesterday's post about finding the Ugaritic Texts in Musée du Louvre last weekend, here are some more detailed pictur...
Sunday, 26 February 2012

Finding the Ugaritic texts in the Louvre

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Last July I wrote a series of articles about the gods of the Old Testament including a post about The Ugaritic Texts .  Yes - I said 'go...
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Saturday, 25 February 2012

Things Christians Say, Part 4 - Just rebelling against God!

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A weekly series of responses to the things christians say to atheists, based on the video reproduced here on 30th January 2012 .  The aim...
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Friday, 24 February 2012

More popular than Jesus!

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The is a guest blog post written by a friend of the creator of Something Surprising .  I think you will like it. The day that John Lennon ...
Thursday, 23 February 2012

Who gave this Kafir the right to speak?

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At the recent London Rally to Defend Freedom of Expression , the author of the delightful Jesus and Mo cartoons asked for his words to be r...
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Wednesday, 22 February 2012

No point in listening to peasants

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From my own point of view, Peter Atkins was the star guest on a panel in the Grove Auditorium of Magdalene (pronounced 'Maudlin') C...
Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Think Week off to a good start

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Oxford Think Week 2012 got off to a good start last night, with an event called ' In Conversation with Richard Dawkins '.  The other...
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Monday, 20 February 2012

The CERN Compromise

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When Britain and France teamed up to build the supersonic airliner, Concorde, they had a practical problem to solve.  Which language would b...
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