I was in the pub yesterday, and was made aware that catholic wingnut-in-chief Ratzinger had been bad-mouthing science and atheism by playing the old Marxism=teh evul! card and playing up christianity because it offers “hope”. Earlier today, I saw a few posts on blogs (The Freethinker, Atheist Ethicist - highly recommended) and articles in [...]

If you’re a creationist/IDer, then you may be interested in these other scientific theories which you can use to beat down those pesky, deluded Darwinists!
The scientific ‘theory’ that explains reproductive biology defeated
Poster, scientific paper, scientific paper with data and commentary.
The scientific ‘explanation’ of atoms and chemical properties busted
Improved periodic table of the elements with additional [...]

As I joked the other day about the ridiculousness of “faith hospitals“, the BBC is running an article written by University of Edinburgh Professor Aziz Sheikh who is arguing for faith based medical support for muslims.
“Male infant circumcision should be available throughout the NHS. Although a handful of NHS trusts provide it, most parents are [...]

Atheist Ethicist has written an interesting and thoughtful article about the idea of faith hospitals.
I wonder if/when the UK government, to back up it’s proclivity to support faith-based institutions (as demonstrated in it’s increasing promotion of faith schools), will begin introducing the concept of faith hospitals. We’ll need something to replace the many hospitals [...]

I see, especially in theistic literature (as opposed to scripture — but it’s there too), that science is often denounced as being arrogant. Those who claim such things usually have a reason to: it contradicts their own dogmatic view of the universe, usually in some quite fundamental way.
There are many levels of confidence: in [...]

I think it’s amazing that there an increasing tendency for those of faith to claim that there’s more and more evidence (e.g. intelligent design/creationism) to the answers of life, the universe and everything, when in fact no new evidence for any of it has emerged in the past however-many years (or whenever it was that [...]