The McGrath Delusion – a response to The Dawkins Delusion, yet another theologian adding nothing!
December 18, 2009 – 4:37 pm | No Comment

The McGraths, although I suspect more Alister McGrath, created ‘The Dawkins Delusion’ an odd book which I read hoping to find some sort of logical argument against Dawkins. Right at the start of the book McGrath expressed a God Delusion moment of realisation,

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Religion

The first thing I ever talked about, all about my views on religion and the role that it plays in our society or my disagreements with it.

Science

Albeit a rather thin perspective but hopefully does deal with some of the issues related around science and how its often been misused.

Superstition

Superstition the religion of fools or at least as bad as religion in many respects! Why people believe in weird things.

News

Random things that I have found which don’t really seem to fit anywhere else, not really news since they are not “new” but I hope interesting.

New Rules

New Rules, following my grumpy life, these are my little moans about the world. Something I stole from Bill Maher!

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These are a few of my favourite Logical Fallacies!
July 9, 2008 – 12:26 pm | 2 Comments
These are a few of my favourite Logical Fallacies!

Logical fallacies are errors in reasoned thinking and they happen to appear a lot, these are simply the result of a method of argument that appears to work on the surface but which does not …

Induction – how science creates objective knowledge and how others get it completely wrong (Ghost Hunters)!
June 18, 2008 – 2:35 pm | 3 Comments
Induction – how science creates objective knowledge and how others get it completely wrong (Ghost Hunters)!

When you first enter the discussion of the concepts of induction and deduction there is a confusing analogy that has to do with swans, I will try my best to steer away from this since …

Evolution and natural selection are NOT the result of random or blind chance!
May 18, 2008 – 4:46 pm | 3 Comments
Evolution and natural selection are NOT the result of random or blind chance!

Humans by our very nature really don’t understand what random chance means, still let me provide an introduction to the topic. What set of numbers are more likely to win the lottery you can pick …

Is the earth designed for life or is life designed to live on the earth?
April 30, 2008 – 3:32 pm | No Comment
Is the earth designed for life or is life designed to live on the earth?

I was listening to a recently filmed debate and the idea came across that the earth was designed; this was presented by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. These are the things he mentions, which I have heard …

Why does science still grow when it can be so wrong? Why did science happen and take hold in Europe?
April 28, 2008 – 2:30 pm | No Comment
Why does science still grow when it can be so wrong? Why did science happen and take hold in Europe?

One thing that amazes me is that science tends to work quite often; I don’t need to tell you that you already know. The point here is that it tends to work, still there are …

A few of my favourite websites!
April 21, 2008 – 6:04 pm | No Comment

www.Ted.com - Interesting talks and discussions on many things, mostly around science, cultural and social problems.
www.richarddawkins.net  - The Man that started my belief of in non-religion.
www.patcondell.net  - this guy funny and against religion, although sometimes the …

Peter Donnelly’s Fooled by statistics
April 15, 2008 – 8:38 pm | One Comment
Peter Donnelly’s Fooled by statistics

Donnelly is a statistician, please keep reading it’s more interesting than it sounds, in his talk discussing errors that people use when they apply statistics it shows a real example of rational understanding. He goes …

Rives – Oh one of them! And Graham Hancock…
April 15, 2008 – 8:23 pm | No Comment

Rives highlights the one thing that really gets to me, there is a method that human brains normally use; they create patterns when there is just randomness. If you are thinking of someone and then …

Event in Ghost Hunters (USA Show)
April 15, 2008 – 7:30 pm | No Comment

*Picture from www.scifi.com/ghosthunters
Ghost Hunters is an American TV show where they go to places, either homes or places like lighthouses, with the aim to investigate them scientifically. They use all sorts of equipment and it’s …

Too Much Choice
April 15, 2008 – 7:23 pm | No Comment

Barry Schwartz, in his Ted lecture, demonstrates how having too much choice is always too much, of course having no choice is too little, the goal is to have some choice and then you will …