I was just watching this funny Youtube video when my mind wandered a little and a few random thoughts connected themselves.
Posts Tagged ‘Evidence’
Intelligent Design, or Plagiarism?
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Intelligent Design video dissected
Sunday, January 31st, 2010A 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.
The Times completely misses the point
Monday, November 23rd, 2009This is just shoddy journalism of the highest order. I had considered The Times to be a reasonably balanced and reliable news source, but if this article is anything to go by that perception is well off the mark.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6925781.ece
BHA Please Dont Label Me poster
Creationism in UK education
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Evolution Test
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Over at the Missing Universe Museum website (another Creation/ID website that can provide many many hours of entertainment) they have created an little Evolution Test which they propose students give to teachers to see how they react. As you can probably already imagine, the test is rather silly, and the questions posed are almost entirely ridiculous. However I (as a non educator and non scientist) shall attempt to provide at least reasonably accurate answers.
People are sheep
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009The average human being is a simple creature. They go about their daily lives, obeying the law, obeying any commands given to them by authoritative figures, and obeying signs and notices all over the place.
So it was that a week or so ago in the kitchen of my place of work (I work for a large US based international IT company with offices in most countries) a cardboard box appeared, with a note attached requesting that milk bottle lids be left therein. No further information was given at all. Being the human sheep (sheople?) that we all are, milk bottle tops began to appear in the box.
Does religion have greater “epistemic authority” than science in some areas?
Monday, June 15th, 2009Take a look at this article by Tom Clark at Naturalism.org; it’s about the misguided notion that in some areas faith can give us genuine answers to questions before which science is impotent. This is the NOMA (”nonoverlapping magisteria”) refrain that we hear constantly from organizations like the National Academy of Sciences, the National Center for Science Education, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Are there “ways of knowing” that are not only unique to faith, but provide real answers about the nature of the universe?
From Why Evolution is True
Via Richard Dawkins.net
It’s an interesting article, and it got me thinking.
Pure concentrated stupidity!
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009If you find yourself with about a month free, and feel like melting your brain, you could always pop over to http://www.jesus-is-savior.com – but I wouldn’t recommend it. 
But when you start reading some of that massive content, that’s when the brain melt will set in. It’s just a constant barrage of idiotic drivel. The use of so many logical fallacies, over and over. The repeating of straw man arguments that have long since been torn down again and again. It’s a mark of a truly faith-based mind that it can still believe that any of this would still hold any weight. The only people that it could convince in any way are those that don’t need convincing in the first place. For those whose minds actually work properly we can see it for the brain fart that it actually is.
Now, I will grant the author one thing (and pretty much only one thing), it must have been a monumental labour of love to create the site. To be able to concentrate such huge amounts of inane, baseless, stupidity into one place… it’s almost a work of art!
Dang it, looks like I’m converting
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009Gods message to creation:
For those who don’t know, it’s a reference to the last book in Douglas Adams Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (book 5!)
Why do Atheists care about Religion?
Monday, March 16th, 2009I posted this a while back on another site, I figured I should re-post it here:
To all those theists who wonder why us atheists care…
We care for many reasons.
We care because we don’t like seeing people waste their time praising a God that doesn’t exist and looking forward to an afterlife that they will never find when they would be better off spending their time enjoying the all too short time that we are given on this world.
Apocalypse or STFU!
Thursday, March 12th, 2009There seem to be many religious nutters who continually spout on about the end of the world, or the second coming, or some other such nonsense. They often seem to think that we are currently living in The End Days. Most recently David Wilkerson has decided that New York is about to burn to the ground or something.
Well, lets have some accurate results please!
Intellectual Honesty?
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009It is surely incumbent upon us all to be intellectually honest about the things we believe in – even if it is only to ourselves. Even our most centrally held beliefs must be available for inspection, and subject to alteration if for instance new evidence surfaces that makes the belief no longer tenable.
Science and Religion
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Reading the results of the survey linked in my previous article I was astounded with the apparent lack of understanding of the validity of science and the discoveries and theories that have resulted. The survey showed that there were not only a significant number of people that believed that evolution hadn’t been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, but there were also some who believed that the evidence had in fact disproved evolution. (more…)
