If you’re getting tired of holiday TV, try this TVW video of the debate between Stephen Meyer and Peter Ward. Meyer is Director of Discovery Institute and Ward is a paleontologist and professor at the University of Washington. In attempting to argue against ID, Ward resorts to politics (i.e. Bush likes ID therefore ID is [...]
It is absolutely safe to say that, if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that). –Richard Dawkins
I haven’t yet decided if I’m ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked…or a bit of all of them. Got bored and made [...]
Found this gem of a quote by Katie Price (aka Jordan) in Heat magazine…
Take away politics and religion for world peace. I don’t know anything about any of it, but it just seems to cause problems.
Our office rest area has a mixture of electrical engineering magazines, and trash like Heat and Now! Nobody reads the [...]
Today is the 10th anniversary of Carl Sagan’s death and to commemorate him some bloggers have organised a blog-a-thon in which (according to Xeni Jardin of boingboing.net) “billions and billions” will participate (??). Sagan certainly was, and clearly still is, a champion to atheists.
Most people associate Sagan with the SETI program, and the famous Drake [...]
Having been making my way through the ID the Future podcast, whilst waiting for experiments to finish, and waiting for the Christmas holidays to arrive. Questions about the origin of life on earth are slightly more interesting than my research about speech recognition. I’ve also learnt that iTunes is by far the easiest way to [...]
I’m going to try the Mr T 4-point plan to help me de-stress. I tried quitting coffee but that lasted about 12 hours. I’ve considered learning to deal with difficulties in a constructive way…but that’s way too much like hard work. So as Mr T says…
1. Stay in school (I’d love to leave but I’m [...]
The Radar has an hilarious list of the top 10 most dangerous toys ever made. This includes Lawn Darts…
Lawn darts were massive weighted spears. You threw them. They stuck where they landed. If they happened to land in your skull, well, then you should have moved. During their brief (and generally awesome) reign in 1980s [...]
People often mock the bits of the Old Testament Law that don’t make sense to them. Even many Christians who want to reinterpret what the Bible says on current controversial issues such as homosexuality often resort to depicting Old Testament commands and prohibitions as being superstitious and irrational in nature.
I don’t believe that a Christian [...]
A quote by agnostic cosmologist Robert Jastrow:
A sound explanation may exist for the explosive birth of our Universe; but if it does, science cannot find out what the explanation is. The scientist’s pursuit of the past ends in the moment of creation. This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians. They [...]
In the past few days both my watch and my iPod shuffle have broke. My digital watch is stuck on its “demo mode” so the screen alternates between the current date, the time in Caracas, Venezuela, and a random telephone number. My iPod is, according to iTunes, corrupted and all my attempts to fix it [...]
