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Sunday, 10 June 2012

Should intelligent people fear Islamism?

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This was written by @plasma_engineer of the Something Surprising blog for a guest appearance on the Australian blog, Attempting to Make Se...
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Saturday, 9 June 2012

Things Christians say: part 19. Hitler and atheism.

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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 .  Usually th...
Friday, 8 June 2012

A double positive becomes . . .

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Last weekend I heard a funny story about a linguistics professor who was lecturing to her class one day. " In English ," she sai...
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Thursday, 7 June 2012

Snake-handling pastors

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In some of the more bizarre strands of the pentecostal and charismatic Christian movements in North America, there is a surprising tradition...
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Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Ubuntu 12.04 - the verdict - shall I switch distro?

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Having shared a few of my concerns about the way that Ubuntu is changing, and whether I should stick with it or jump ship to another Linux ...
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Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Invisible idiot!

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Sometimes it is fun to play with techy toys and a friend showed me one recently that seemed like fun. It arrived yesterday, costing just u...
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Monday, 4 June 2012

Mixing sciences badly

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Publicised today on Richard Dawkins.net, was an account of a Nobel laureate, Luc Montagnier, who has turned his interest to pseudo-science...
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Sunday, 3 June 2012

Distressed or 'in mourning'?

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As we are entering the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, Union Flags are appearing all over the country.  This is not normal in Engl...
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Two horsemen in Oxford - Dawkins and Dennett

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As promised in my post on 11th May , here is the video of the discussion between Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett.  Enjoy it and see if yo...
Saturday, 2 June 2012

Things Christians say: part 17. Free agents!

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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 ...
Friday, 1 June 2012

Build the Enterprise

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Frustrated by the lack of manned space exploration during my adult life, I was delighted to come across a web site called " Build the E...
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Thursday, 31 May 2012

Dead Centre of the Ancient World

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Bahrain has recently been in the news, with a surprising controversy about whether the Grand Prix should be run there.  The small island nat...
Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Ubuntu 12.04 - the questions that divide a community

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I have been running several computers on the Ubuntu Linux operating system for 5 years, and although not expert I would at least claim some ...
Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Kitman - more lies for Islam

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Wikipedia describes the word ' kitman ' as follows: The act of paying lip service to authority while holding personal opposition. ...
Monday, 28 May 2012

Compliant Quislings - a gift from the gods

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I sometimes use the term ' compliant quisling ' to describe someone who I disapprove of.  In my case I usually mean our Deputy Prime...
Sunday, 27 May 2012

Islamophobic? This is why!

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The criticism of Islam is a topic that I sometimes touch upon - although as you might have noticed, I do not do it nearly enough!  Most of m...
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Mr Deity and the Latter Days

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And only because I have been talking about Mormonism a lot this week, I present Mr Deity and the Latter Days as a test to see whether you ha...

Mr Deity and the Rights

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The Mr Deity series is not always on my favorites list, but sometimes he and Lucy come up with an absolute classic, and this is one of them...
Saturday, 26 May 2012

Things Christians say: part 16. You were never a true Christian.

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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 ...
Friday, 25 May 2012

Blood of atonement - Christ's death was not enough!

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Did you know that Jesus is not a remedy for all sin after all?  In Mormonism, the blood of Jesus was shed to atone for the original sin of ...