The news this week has all been about climate change. Here are two things I learnt this week:
1. Mars may be experiencing severe global warming without human influence. Which is good because maybe we can go live there…2. There is a movement called the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement who encourage people to stop having children [...]
Last night on BBC Newsnight they were talking about heroes and they were interviewing a man who had pulled a child and mother from a burning car seconds before it exploded. They also had an evolutionary biologist on hand to attempt to explain why people do heroic things and put their own lives in danger [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Apparently us left-handers think more quickly. I may have had to correct the BBC on ID, but this article is clearly unquestionably accurate. To quote:
Left-handed people can think quicker when carrying out tasks such as playing computer games or playing sport, say Australian researchers. Connections between the left and right hand sides or hemispheres of [...]
David Berlinski just became my favourite commentator on the Evolution controversy. For those who haven’t heard of him, he describes himself as an agnostic Jewish mathematician. First I stumbled across this copy of his well known article from Commentary magazine, which gives a general and entertaining critique of Darwinian Evolution. But that is nothing compared [...]
