And God said…

To continue my rants into the idiosyncrasies of religious belief, here’s a real treat.
Such is the slogan of the $27 million creation museum in Kentucky, which is something of an embarrassment for the US scientific community. It’s easy for atheists and non Bible Belt Christians to laugh, but the “museum’s” calculated merging of religion and [...]

Ben Stein: An Ignorant Fool

I’ve lifted the following parody from Richard Dawkins.net which basically exposes the stupidity behind the pro-creationist film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, whose title nicely sums up the criteria for believing in ‘intelligent’ design:
Anticipating success with their feature film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Producers Mark Mathis, Logan Craft and Walt Ruloff have already leaked a teaser trailer [...]

Let us have Truth and Liberty!

Everyone raise a glass! Not only because I handed in my dissertation today, but also to celebrate the abolition of the blasphemy law!
Almost two hundred years have passed since Shelley spoke out against this very law, which has the power to sentence a free-thinking individual to imprisonment and hard labour. In Shelley’s time, publishers could [...]