So today is draw Muhammad day and I of course couldn’t resist putting electronic pen to virtual paper. Although I warn you now that I’m not exactly Picasso. 
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 May 19th, 2010 |  Tags: Draw, Draw Muhammad Day, Drawing, Dumbledore, Jesus, Muhammad |  Category: Atheism, News, Religion, Stupidity |  Leave a commentI’m a huge fan of Tim Minchin and his rather unique way of looking at things so when I found out that he’s written a song dealing with the Popes cover-up of paedophile priests I knew it would be good. I wasn’t disappointed. Oh, it might contain a swear word or two, so listen appropriately. April 30th, 2010 | Tags: Catholic, Paedophile, Pope, Priests, Tim Minchin | Category: Morality, Religion | One commentScience writer Simon Singh has today won his appeal against the libel action brought by the British Chiropractic Association. Full details here. *UPDATE* I was slightly overzealous with the celebrations above. What Simon has won is the right to use his argument that his statements were opinion, something that should be protected under freedom of speech/press. Hopefully this will allow him to actually overturn the libel verdict that was previously handed down. *UPDATE 2* Of course you should all know by now that the BCA has dropped its case. Whoohoo! No Simon just needs to get his money back from them and everything will be straight again. April 1st, 2010 | Tags: CAM, Chiropractic, Libel, Simon Singh | Category: News, Science | Leave a commentSorry about the lack of posts recently. No real excuse, just my brain hasn’t been engaged enough to think of subjects to write about. I do now however have a couple of topics in mind, so something with a little meat should be along soon. On a side note, I must have done something right recently as my level of comment spam has gone through the roof. I was just watching this funny Youtube video when my mind wandered a little and a few random thoughts connected themselves. February 17th, 2010 | Tags: Bible, Creationism, Crocaduck, Evidence, Eye, Goddidit, Gods, Intelligent Design, Science | Category: Evolution, Science, Stupidity | 2 commentsA few days ago I stumbled upon a web site which linked a video titled “The Scientific Case for Intelligent Design – Darwinism Debunked“. I didn’t have the time to watch it then so I put the link aside. Today I had a quiet afternoon and so I watched it. Below are my notes dissecting the video as it went. January 31st, 2010 | Tags: Charles Darwin, Creationism, Evidence, Goddidit, Gods, Intelligent Design, Science | Category: Evolution, Science, Stupidity | Leave a commentLibel laws here in the UK are ridiculous. They are vastly skewed in favour of the accuser, with a huge burden on those who are accused. Given that average libel cases run into the millions of £s, it’s an effective way of silencing debate and dissent – just as the recent case brought by the British Chiropractic Association against Simon Singh. Please visit the Libel Reform Campaign website, sign the petition (it’s not just for UK citizens) and send a message to your MP (if you are a UK citizen). http://www.libelreform.org/
*Updated – see end. The recent earthquake in Haiti is a major disaster. From the what I have heard and read there are thousands, probably hundreds of thousands dead, and the immediate area is in chaos. Governments and organisations the world over are promising aid and financial assistance, and people of all beliefs are dipping into their pockets to give money to the various aid agencies that have sprung into action. January 15th, 2010 | Tags: Aid, Disaster, Earthquake, Haiti, Pat Robertson, Pope | Category: General, News, Religion | 5 commentsChief Rabbi Yona Metzger claims that the current high rate of abortions is causing the delay of the coming of the next messiah. From YNetNews via The Telegraph January 7th, 2010 | Tags: Abortion, Messiah, Rabbi, Second Coming, Yahweh, Yona Metzger | Category: Health, Religion | One commentWell, the festive season is nearly over now, but there is one more night of frivolity to go! Happy New Year everyone! Happy Christmas everyone! Hope you are with the people you want to be with, eating the food you want to eat, and receiving the gifts you want to receive. Typical isn’t it. I mentioned in my previous post how it seems no one talking about how removing our dependance on oil would be a good thing overall, and almost straight away I’m stumbling around the internet and happen upon this: http://politicalirony.com/2009/12/10/what-if-2/  (c) Joel Pitt I’ve been trying to decide if I should post something about Global Warming (or Anthropogenic Global Climate Change AGCC – my preferred moniker) for a while now. Following a couple of posts by leading sceptic James Randi (see here and here) which cause a little bit of a storm amongst the sceptic community I thought I’d add my own twist on the matter (although I doubt it’ll cause even a ripple). December 24th, 2009 | Tags: AGCC, Sceptic | Category: Climate Change, Evolution, General, Science | 3 commentsActually, I’m not really, but I do have to admit that the spirit of the season hasn’t really gripped me yet. Oh well, it will once I finish work for the rest of the year I’m sure. One thing that is annoying me however is the propensity for web sites to add stupid little ‘Snow’ animations. You know the sort, you visit the page and a few seconds later you start to see flakes of ‘snow’ falling down from the top. Personally I find these sorts of things really annoying, and tend to drive me away from the website. Doesn’t help though that I am an avid Stumbler, so I seem to regularly arrive at such sites. Then to top it all off Steam started doing it too. GAH! Oh well, I’ll just have to suffer in silence as usual! Now, if only it would snow in real life then I’d have something to smile about. I love the stuff, but never get any of any consequence where I live. I’m not asking for much, maybe a foot of it. Just enough to make a proper sized snow man and instigate a real snowball fight. I’ve just watched this debate, and for the most part it was quite good. http://www.intelligencesquared.com/iq2-video/2009/atheism-is-the-new-fundamentalism |
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