I’ve just received a link, from the Humanist Society of Scotland, to the following very disturbing news article:
Sunday Herald: Rival To Evolution May Enter Schools
INTELLIGENT DESIGN, a controversial alternative theory to evolution, could become part of the science curriculum in Scottish schools.
The Sunday Herald has learned that the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) is considering provision [...]

Rather close to my house, far closer than I’m comfortable with, is this shop, “Paradigm Shift”.
If you were to walk down the street and look into the window, you would probably notice a number of things there: telescopes, microscopes, magnets, home chemistry sets, crystal growing and simple electronic kits — all sorts of things that [...]

I’m irate.1 When I buy my godless propoganda, I want it garish and in-your-face so that I can sit on the bus on the way to work and read it and all around me can see that I think religion is a bunch of hokum, and that I don’t give a flying shit who [...]

From the NSS Newsline:
Last year our Honorary Associate [of the NSS] Graham Allen MP kindly asked a parliamentary question about how much the taxpayer had to fork out to pay for chaplains in the [UK] Armed Forces. He was told it was £295,000.
Now Derek Twigg MP, the under-secretary for defence, has written to Mr Allen [...]

Further to a previous post about the commingling of LOLcats and creationism, I can now introduce you to the magical blend of LOLcats and parthenogenesis.

This morning I received my Fisher Price(tm) My First Theist Rant(tm). Unfortunately, it was rather short and didn’t contain any of the hallmarks of a good quality theist rant (”godless liberal”, “commie”, “burn in hell”, etc.) but it did contain a number of rather weak fallacies, so it’s not all lost.
Bill (for that is [...]

I’ve been wanting to see this “missing” interview with Alister McGrath from Root of All Evil? for a good while now, and thankfully richarddawkins.net has posted the entire unedited interview.

McGrath complained that this interview, which he curiously claimed as a victory, was cut from the final edit.
Let’s see if McGrath squirms and vacillates with his [...]

Where creationists claim we can see obvious “design”, therefore we should also assume that everything else has been designed:

Where we should see obvious “design” before even thinking about beginning to be able to say that everything else has been designed:

There are two interesting lectures this month that might be of interest to readers here.

On Friday 22nd June Steve Jones, professor of genetics at UCL is presenting the William Dick Memorial Lecture in the Assembly Hall of New College, entitled Is Man Just Another Animal.

And, one that I’m particularly eager to go to, is on [...]

Yesterday (Sunday) saw the third edition of the (personally much anticipated) Humanist Symposium, hosted this time by the tremendous Black Sun Journal. Go and read some top humanist posts from the past three weeks.
The next edition (on the 1st July 2007) will be hosted here at nullifidian.net.
If you have an article or post (that [...]

Drinking1 is a national past-time in Scotland, so I thought that I’d share this aspect of my country of adoption with other atheists from around the world. These drinking games are suitable for radio, TV and especially podcasts.

All of these games are best played with some friends (playing alone is not recommended) when you [...]

From the claims of those who run the new creationist “museum” in the USA that tyrannosaurs used their large teeth for opening coconuts, and with the increasingly bizarre web (yet mostly amusing) phenomenon of LOLcats/cat macros), there could only be one logical conclusion:

‘Alf-inched from LOLgod. See go read more LOLgod for a plethora of [...]

Boston.com has an interesting article on the lunacy of Conservapedia.
Here is an odd, truthful sentence in the Conserva-entry for Ann Coulter: “Her incoherent books and vitriolic speaking style have endeared her to fans and infuriated opponents.” Even the broken clock of conservative nuttery tells the correct time now and then.
Nice one.