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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The finely tuned universe theory – why the religious should not use it to justify their belief in God!
January 16, 2010 – 3:21 pm | No Comment
The finely tuned universe theory – why the religious should not use it to justify their belief in God!

Anyone who has ever heard Dinesh D’Souza or any other religious debate about how the universe is so finely tuned there must be a God is arrogant. Firstly since they are coming from a theological …

Quotes part 1
January 12, 2010 – 9:30 pm | No Comment

“Hell is an evil concept, those that speak of Hell should be the only ones that suffer from it” – RU

“Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom …

Michael Shermer – Negative Evidence in “The Baloney Detection Kit”
June 24, 2009 – 2:54 pm | 5 Comments
Michael Shermer – Negative Evidence in “The Baloney Detection Kit”

What I really liked about this video by Shermer is the idea of ‘negative evidence’ which in fact this should have been included in my earlier post: The common defences used by superstitions. It …

What is a Rational Understander!
June 1, 2009 – 6:18 pm | No Comment
What is a Rational Understander!

I have never taken the view that I should attack an individual’s personal beliefs, neither have I really ever condemned religious followers as being those stupid people that have never thought for themselves, doing this …

Dawkins and Thomson at American Atheist convention 2009
May 1, 2009 – 4:01 pm | No Comment
Dawkins and Thomson at American Atheist convention 2009

There are two new videos posted at Richard Dawkins.Net which are noteworthy, the
first is that of Dawkins himself and the second by Andy Thomson, both of which
talk about religion at the American Atheist convention 2009. …