The Myths and Hoaxes in 21st Century Britain. Part 1: The Theory of Evolution.

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 [...]

Repost: Lies, damned lies and statistics

PZ Myers is a very rude and intollerant man and has just shown profound disrespect on Twitter. Consequently, many visitors are coming here, so here is the kind of man Prof. Myers is and how much he respects the truth: this was originally posted here on 24th September this year…

PZ Myers is a biologist and [...]

A True Scotsman™ keeps his Bible in his sporran!

So says major American humanist PZ Myers. What is he fussing about now, I wondered? He has picked up on a post on The Not-Quite-So-Friendly Humanist’s blog:
The Christian Union at the University of Edinburgh have put forward a motion for the student association’s AGM to allow themselves or another organisation to put Bibles in each [...]

Lies, damned lies and statistics

PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota. He has a big chip on his shoulder about religion and Creationism. He has a popular blog where he writes articles that can whip some of his regular readers into a frenzy of blasphemy and hatred.
Recently, he stated that “Finally, a good [...]