Richard Dawkins has somewhat of a reputation amongst people who’ve never bothered to actually read him as an ‘angry atheist’. If the only footage they ever do bother to see of the man happened to be his speech at the Protest the Pope Rally, I doubt their opinion of the man would change. Of course, when [...]
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It’s often forgotten by people nowadays, but we owe much of our scientific, philosophical and mathematical knowledge to the Islamic world. While Europe was going through what I like to call its “shitheap period” — more commonly known as the Dark Ages, but whatever — Islam was preserving and translating ancient texts, as well as pushing [...]
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Yeah, yeah, I know. Recently, Stephen Hawking took some time out of his busy schedule to let us know that there’s no need for god in modern physics — as if there was really ever any doubt. If I sound a little bit unfazed by the whole thing, it’s because I am. Sure, it’s always [...]
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I only ask because someone is making a game out of Boobquake — and if you don’t know what that is, stop smoking whatever the hell it is that’s tricked your mind into thinking that you’re a Mesopotamian warlord, send back in time from an alternate history in which Jurassic Park was a documentary about [...]
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…but it might briefly entertain you. It’s a miniature play in the Guardian, written by Mark Vernon, and it asks “If Stephen Hawking was a boy again, what questions would he ask, and what would be the answer?”
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Mike Adams appears to be the eternal pimple on the arse of academia; he’s a little bit like a Tickle-Me-Elmo, only instead of giggling he cries Christian persecution whenever an atheist so much as tries to hug him. Now he’s written a lovely little screed over at Townhall.com, combining the three of the things he seems [...]
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Some of you may have already seen the following unembeddable horror I am about to unleash upon your brains. The key word here is ‘OneVote’ — and if that name means something to you, I’d highly recommend you don’t click on the following link lest your eyeballs melt from their sockets on a repeat viewing of [...]
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From earlier this year, Taslima Nasreen on Islam, religion, and women’s rights.
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Eager to alert me to the fact that Jennifer Keeton from Georgia might not have the biggest persecution complex around, Bing McGhandi (from Happy Jihad’s House of Pancakes) linked me to this story from Texas that…well, I’ll let you read for yourself. A Texas bus driver has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, claiming [...]
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Personally, I’d like to believe that such silliness as Creationism has found no place in the Australian education system — unfortunately, I’ve always known that in some places (particularly up north — you know which north I’m talking about) it has weaned its way into the curriculum of various schools. Now we’ve got a first [...]
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