This fascinating piece of research has been reported by the British Humanist Association, which I have reproduced here. What is…
Author Jonathan MS Pearce
Sam Harris, author of Free Will (obviously not as good as my book Free Will? which has a question mark…
Having looked at the issue of causality in the last post, I would like to continue to analyse the first…
Cody Rudisill here for my first short foray into ATP. The guys over at Philocosmology released a draft of Sean…
Kevin McCarthy, a regular commentator here, has contributed this short review of a book which certainly looks like an interesting read with…
I have, over the years, been a keen objector to the Kalam Cosmological Argument, an argument that apologists like William…
So occasionally some spontaneously generated comedy hits the mark, like a fine pinot noir. I thought it might be nice…
I was having a discussion about evolution over on another thread of a post I made from the other day.…
This raises an interesting philosophical point which was raised in a New Scientist article last year: Don’t get smart: The…
In 1859 Darwin spilled the first splashes Of his universal acid, and the effects were like magic Burning human arrogance into ashes In…
Some time ago, Robin Ince and some other comedians and skeptical minds came together to produce “9 Lessons and Carols for…
I can’t believe it. My country (UK) has a coalition government between a right-wing party, the Conservatives, and a left-wing…
I was listening to a podcast by bloggers Reasonable Doubts recently whereby one of the contributors, Justin Schieber, formulated a…
So, following on from yesterday’s video on hell, here is one on heaven. See what you think. Do you have…
Some of you may have seen this video before, but I am going to run a few of my You…
Here is an article from the Guardian in the UK. Another punch in the face to rationalism and serious science…
Why I love “The Newsroom” – left vs right vs truth (part 2 and some philosophy) McAvoy: I only seem…
Here is a definition of Ockham’s Razor: Occam’s Razor: the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest…
Some time ago when the whole Wikileaks scandal broke, I wrote to the Independent newspaper in the UK and had…
I have recently been reading Richard Carrier’s excellent book “Proving History” which essentially sets out a case for the use…