‘The struggle to believe’: A load of rubbish.

Over on the ABC.net.au website (which is generally a reasonably good news website) Greg Clarke, director of the ‘Centre for Public Christianity’ has posted an opinion pieces titled ‘The Struggle to Believe is not a Futile One‘ apparently in response to Atheism and the bus ads that have appeared in several countries.
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Man tries to steal car, turns into goat, gets arrested.

It is sometimes asked what harm does belief in the supernatural/mystical/whatever do to society. Does it really matter if certain people believe in witchcraft, sorcery, gods (plural and/or singular) or fairies in the bottom of the garden?  This story, which come from Nigeria, should illustrate some of the problems such backwards beliefs can have [...]

Gut Bacteria: Information on Human Migration

That’s right, yet another interesting story from the world of science – one that certainly puts yet another nail in the coffin of the idiocy that is young earth creationism.  The story covers findings that certain types of bacteria found in parts of the human digestive system can be traced back through human populations thus [...]

Three cool science stories

As you might expect, science just keeps on discovering more and more about the Universe around.  This week, three stories of interest came onto the scene: Love is a drug, The search for gravity waves and the Self replication of an RNA Enymes.

‘Argument Responses’ responses response.

Some time ago, I created a separate page for this little blog of mine which I titled, appropriately, Argument Responses after proposing it in this entry. The reason for this was that the same old long debunked arguments kept coming from creationists who have demonstrated a lack of capability of doing any sort of research [...]

Top 10 Signs Of Evolution In Modern Man

Just a quick recognition of an interesting list, aptly titled ‘Top 10 Signs Of Evolution In Modern Man‘.  The list briefly covers: Goose bumps, Jacobson’s Organ, Junk DNA, Extra ear muscles, Plantaris Muscle, Wisdom teeth, Third eyelid, Darwin’s point, Coccyx, and Appendix.  While I would have liked to see more references to scientific journals and [...]