I have just finished reading ‘The God Delusion’, Dawkins‘ new book critiquing religion. Influenced by this I would like to discuss my personal views of why Christianity is a pointless endeavour, or at least one that is taken far too seriously. I assume similar criticisms can be launched against nearly all of the major religions, [...]
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What the Bible almost certainly is not
Posted in Religion on May 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Creationism for Dummies.
Posted in Popular Science, Religion on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I get annoyed. Not very often these days but sometimes. If I may grossly generalise there are three things that annoy me, these are:
a) Things that don’t work for no apparent reason whatsoever! Which then take hours to put right when I could be doing something useful. Like eating bread.
b) Things that don’t work [...]
The nature of proof
Posted in Philosophy, Popular Science, Religion on April 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I was just being infuriated by ‘Dr.’ Kent Hovind. Again. This time through the medium of the Ali G. show. In this clip Hovind explains that he is offering $25,000 to anybody with ‘real, empirical, testable scientific evidence for evolution’. So why has no-one claimed it? Is it because evolution is not ‘true’. Or is [...]
