Posted in Religion on Aug 20th, 2010 | Viewed 89 times
Some of you out there may have caught the YouTube video by some fundies that call themselves “RealCatholicTV” that was posted last week. I came across it via PZ Myers blog. The video was describing their vision of a catholic dictatorship (their words) which of course included a vision of enforcing all the kinds of [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion on Jun 20th, 2010 | Viewed 502 times
These videos may be a few months old, but they are quite good. They run through some of the many ridiculous arguments creationists often use.
Posted in Religion, Science on Mar 30th, 2010 | Viewed 972 times
Sam Harris has made an excellent albeit a bit short TED talk about science and moral questions: He naturally got a lot of negative critique for this talk. He is not claiming that science can dictate morals exactly, what he is saying is that there are moral truths to be known. The fact that science [...]
Posted in Books, Religion on Mar 21st, 2010 | Viewed 1008 times
I came across this book on a forum and since it was available for download at the time, I decided to have a look at it. As expected this book is not for the weak, and especially not the weak religious type. It is deliberately written to provoke the religious, but that said, it is [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on Oct 9th, 2009 | Viewed 1626 times
This excellent YouTube video takes care of the accusation we sceptics often has thrown after us that we need to be more open-minded. This always bugs me because my inquisitive mind is very open to new ideas. I’ve spent most of this year learning quantum physics for fucks sake. Being open-minded is however not the [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on Oct 6th, 2009 | Viewed 1168 times
A talk by physicist Steven Weinberg. It is well worth the listen. “Steven Weinberg, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he founded its Theory Group and holds the Josey Regental Chair of Science, was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with colleagues Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion on Aug 19th, 2009 | Viewed 536 times
The Secular Student Alliance and the biology professor PZ Myers went to visit the creationist “museum” in Kentucky. Myers wrote a blog post about it and some of the students put together a video series. It is well worth reading and watching for the pure entertainment value of it. Blogpost: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/08/the_creation_museum_1.php Videos: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/08/the_whole_experience.php
Posted in Books, Religion, Science on Jul 19th, 2009 | Viewed 462 times
The Bible Unearhed is a book written by the archaeologists Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. It covers the historical parts of the old testament of the Bible and how it fits into the picture archaeology in the Middle East paints of its ancient history. Not surprisingly it turns out that most of the early [...]
Posted in Religion, Science on Jun 7th, 2009 | Viewed 535 times
This is an interesting video of a lecture by Professor Robert Sapolsky, anthropologist at Stanford. It explores some of the evolutionary reasons behind religion. Source: blip.tv/file/2204956
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on May 29th, 2009 | Viewed 452 times
This story popped up both in my New Scientist and my Panda’s Thumb feeds today. New Scientist: Christians battle each other over evolution Panda’s Thumb: But it’s not about religion … So basically, we have the Discovery Institute, the pseudo-scientific Seattle organization, promoting Intelligent Design, who has launched a new website, Faith+Evolution. There they ask: [...]