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 common defences used by superstitions, religion and sometimes conspiracy theories. Rational thinking pushed aside!
May 25, 2009 – 3:39 pm | 2 Comments
The common defences used by superstitions, religion and sometimes conspiracy theories. Rational thinking pushed aside!

These three phenomena cover a wide array of activities and beliefs but share the same broad sense that they break away from what could be considered to be ‘natural’ and move towards trying to produce …

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 …

An introduction to Religion, Superstition, the Metaphysical and Science!
June 23, 2008 – 8:42 pm | 3 Comments
An introduction to Religion, Superstition, the Metaphysical and Science!

There is an old Irish saying, religion is the superstition of fools and I cannot help but think that should be religion is the religion of fools! I will give religion one point though, not …