Those delicate flowers, the secular humanists, just cannot bear for anyone not to believe like they do. They get really upset that after over a century and a half, millions of us still don’t buy the idea that we evolved from pond slime via apes – goo-to-you-via-the-zoo! Religious ideas produce intolerance, they insist, and so [...]

SadButMadLad has written a piece over at Anna Raccoon’s place about NASA’s latest claim to have found (ahem, on Earth as usual) another reason to believe in extraterrestrial life.
NASA’s original press release on 29th November didn’t give any hint of what they had discovered,
WASHINGTON — NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST [...]

Glasgow South MP and wannabe front bencher, Tom Harris, tweeted this the other day…

I kept some extra tardises in (if that’s the plural) for effect. Tom is probably more famous for his love of this TV programme than he is for his part in destroying the UK during his two terms as a New Labour [...]

A couple of centuries ago, the philosophy of uniformitarianism was gaining in popularity. According to this philosophy, the processes we see happening on earth today are presumed always to have occurred: “the present is the key to the past”.
From this philosophy, developed by Scottish amateur geologist, James Hutton, assumptions about the earth’s past are made [...]

I left a long comment on Leg-iron’s post, The Tory vote-losing technique, which I am reproducing here. He is talking about the modern phenomenon of shouting down your opponents and calling them names rather than engaging them in intelligent dialogue. He asks whether those, like climate change ‘atheists’ and those warning about mass immigration, were [...]

Okay, this is last week’s news, but I promised somewhere I would write about it. Cranmer posed the question, Should Richard Dawkins be arrested for incitement to religious hatred? He was responding to Richard Dawkins’ ‘rant’ in The Times, Hear the rumble of Christian hypocrisy, about the comments made by TV evangelist Pat Robertson concerning [...]

I want to draw your attention to this article: Moscow’s Stray Dogs Evolving Greater Intelligence, Including a Mastery of the Subway, which appeared on Dawkins’ website at the weekend.
Firstly, I don’t know whether Dawkins added this article to his website himself, or if one of his evolved apes did, but it is quite bizarre that [...]

Ruth Gledhill is The Times’ Religion Correspondent. She published a very long post midweek about how her cat is better treated than some humans in Haiti. Very valid point of course, but why, I wonder, did she take the completely unnecessary step of dissing us Creationists with this,
New research shows that they [i.e. animals] can [...]

I’m not sure how I came across this article on Canada.com about ‘professional atheist’ Christopher Hitchens, but I was certainly intrigued by the title.
Leonard Stern, writes,
Here’s the problem: The atheists don’t understand that it’s possible to reject scripture as history but still accept it as sacred narrative.
I would say the problem for Christians is that [...]

While the Daily Mail states, seemingly as fact: Human evolution just got a million years older: woman-ape fossil skeleton is closest thing yet to ‘missing link’, Richard Dawkins’ blog ponders the question raised by theories in the journal Science, out today: Did apes descend from us?
So basically this icon of our age…
…could well be total [...]