I didn’t pick up The Times over the past week as I’ve was incredibly busy. If I had, I might been aware of this opinion piece by Richard Dawkins, who takes general forms of the criticisms that have been levied at him since publishing The God Delusion and answers them individually.
Here’s an example of [...]

Further to my last post which noted John Sweeney’s BBC Panorama documentary about Scientology, he has written an article on the BBC news web site discussing the context of the YouTube video of him “losing it”.

On Monday 14th May at 8.30pm, the BBC will be screening a Panorama documentary Scientology & Me on BBC One.
John Sweeney investigates the Church of Scientology, endorsed by some major Hollywood celebrities, but which continues to face the criticism that it is less of a religion and more of a cult. Some former members claim [...]

The Encyclopedia of Life looks absolutely fantastic.

Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. Our goal is to create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and [...]

I’ve just been made aware (thanks to a couple of videos posted by Cosmic Afterthoughts) of two episodes of a new Dawkins documentary called The Enemies of Reason, where Dawkins’ takes to task woo in general and, inter alia, über-woo-merchant Deepak Chopra in particular, which I’m looking forward to.

Is it rational that the dead can [...]

After ABC ran a story in January about hundreds of atheists videotaping themselves blaspheming the Holy Spirit, best-selling author Ray Comfort contacted the network and offered to prove God’s existence, absolutely, scientifically, without mentioning the Bible or faith.
Christian Newswire
Really? Go on, then.
We could put a dozen scientists in a laboratory and tell them to [...]

A bunch of hindus in Carmarthenshire, Wales, own a cow (which they regard as taboo) that has contracted the bovine form of the infectious bacterial disease tuberculosis (TB). The local authority wants to destroy the animal as it poses a health risk to both humans and other livestock. The hindus disagree, and are [...]

In today’s The Times, there’s an article about how the Religious Education Council is attempting to eliminate parents’ right to remove their child from religious education classes.
From the article:
Plans to prevent parents removing their children from religious education lessons violate human rights, the National Secular Society has said.
The proposal to review the right of parents [...]

I’d just like to say thanks to everybody that reads this blog, I do appreciate your interest in what I have to say, and the comments and emails you’ve taken the time to write.
However, I realise that I’ve not sought any opinions or feedback on this blog, so I’m asking now. But first, a [...]

There is a common proposition among those that, generally for religious reasons, don’t like evolution, nor believe that it’s true, that “evolution is just a theory, and not a fact”. Many others have explained why this is patently false, but I’d like to point out that one of the problems lies in the language [...]

Tobe38 over at A Load of Bright has an interesting review of Alister McGrath’s The Dawkins Delusion?, the second of his Dawkins-titled tirades.
Tobe38’s writes:
Leaving aside the ridiculous claim to “inner consistency”, this doesn’t really say anything at all. Far from claiming that the Aquinas proofs are still heavily defended, Dawkins states in the God Delusion [...]

Oh dear, yet another one of these ridiculous assertions that atheism is a religion. However, this one stands out for its amazing incoherence. This time it’s from the desk of the very busy Rev. Bill McGinnis, who is not only pastor, but editor/director/webmaster/writer of what he calls the Internet Church of Christ.
McGinnes describes [...]