While playing catch up with Planet Atheism, I saw this Google advert at the foot of the page:
“100% accurate” and “astrologer” are to my mind not two items that should appear in any sentence that makes any kind of sense, but I’m willing to allow someone claiming such things to try to demonstrate it, especially [...]

Since the news that a muslim that had applied to be interviewed for a job as a hair stylist cum model didn’t get the job (because she was unable to do it and lived too far away) and then took the prospective employer to a tribunal for “religious discimination” and was awarded £4,000, I’ve been [...]

Ever heard of David Mabus? No, neither had I. That was until I (and who knows how many others) received a completely out-of-the-blue email from this person (admittedly sent to Planet Humanism rather than directly to me). I really don’t need to add anything, so I’ll just post it here in all [...]

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 [...]

BBC News 24 has just reported that Gillian Gibbons, the teacher at the centre of the Sudanese Mohammed Teddy stupidity, has been found guilty of “insulting religion”, and sentenced to 15 days in prison and is then to be deported, hopefully, for her sake, to a country not run by those who cling to their [...]

Yeah, you read that right…
I really have no comment to make on this story, apart from a great big
What The Fuck?
A British teacher has been arrested in Sudan for letting her children name a teddy bear Mohammed, the British Embassy said.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was detained on Sunday on suspicion of insulting Islam’s prophet.
The [...]

Stephen “Dogshit” Green of Christian Voice is launching a private prosecution in the High Court in an attempt to sue the BBC for blasphemy for it’s screening of Jerry Springer: The Opera.
Green first launched his legal application for special treatment for supposed offence caused in 2005, but it was turned down at the time by [...]

Thrawn has recently received a letter from a catholic looking for a handout. That’s not where the irony lies though. I’ll let a few select quotes from the letter speak for itself.
My name is Sister Patricia Cruise and I run a place called Covenant House - an emergency crisis shelter for abused, abandoned [...]

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I was just watching the BBC News 24’s morning report on the Conservative party conference before I headed off for work, and what do I spy on the little graphical ticket at the foot of the tv screen?
[David] Cameron wants “politics based on belief”.
No. Nonono.
NONONONONONO.
We want politics based on reality, but let’s assume for a [...]

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 reported in The Independent on Sunday on 21 January 2007, the news that the catholic church is pressing the British government to allow an exeption to the recently passed anti-discrimination law regarding sexuality has reached the mainstream media (BBC, The Times).
At the moment, only Ruth Kelly and the prime minister, Tony Blair, are supportive [...]

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 [...]

From the Letters page of The Independent on 22nd December:
Sir: This Christian is left amused and astonished that Johann Hari (Opinion, 21 December) can be so theologically ignorant.
Christianity anti-materialistic? On the contrary, as William Temple observed, it is the most materialistic of all religions, celebrating not only the physical world from quarks to quasars, but [...]

In the most recent of The Times Higher Education Supplement, an article by Rowan Williams, the Archibishop of Canterbury, entitled It is not a crime to hold traditional values argues that the recent arguments over Christian Union (CU) organisations within various universities should be able to associate freely, and should look at their attitudes and [...]