General Introducing Jeremiah Traeger, and Why Writing Is Important For Resistance It comes with great pleasure to announce a new voice here, answering my call for help. This is an introduction to Jeremiah Traeger who will helping to get conversations going here. Please give him a warm welcome. Personally, I think he could offer some interesting and provocative pieces. I also
COVID crisis Carlin on Abortion This is a fabulous quote (H/T Andy Schueler): Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place, huh? Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They'
Survival of the Fittest: Metamorphosis Survival of the Fittest Just a monthly reminder that I have my new fiction book out, a book that combines the horror and philosophy genres. It investigates, by weaving the ideas through the narrative, those big questions. It's a case of The Walking Dead meets sleepy Devon, with a range of different
abstracts Abortion and "Innocent" "Human life" You hear this often, indeed on a recent thread, that abortion is the murder or death of innocent human life. However, I *am* aware of laws against destroying innocent human life. This prompts obvious questions about what human life entails and what innocent can mean. Let's tackle innocent
Trump Five Great Things Trump Has Achieved since Inauguration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFW6yUlgGdI I welcome any better suggestions.
COVID crisis Trump, Men and Abortion As many know, especially if they frequent Twitter, Trump signed a ban on federal money going to international groups that perform or provide information on abortions. What was particularly stark about this was the fact that it appeared to be a very male-defined and -enacted thing. The picture has been
Deep Dive The March Towards Individualism [rant] First came Brexit. Then the rise of populism across continental Europe. Next, it was Trump. And now a further boost to populist organisations and movements across Europe. And what this says to me is that the world appears to be lurching towards a powerful sense of individualism. Or at
General I Need Help! Yes, some might say that that is obvious... Basically, for personal reasons, I need to take a step back a little from the number of things I am doing here and there. I am already stepping back from my voluminous commenting and activity on facebook as it is draining my
Christianity This Is the Soft Underbelly of Christianity A friend of mine, who goes by the name of Fellow Feather, often writes adverts for different publications that are designed to be provocative. Here is his latest one, and it's poignant and pointed! GREATER EVIL IS BEYOND THE IMAGINATION OF MANthan that God,perfect in every way,
equality Quote of the Day: Alan Duval Unpicking Racist Viewpoints in the Comments here I don't like to censor comments here, as you may well have guessed. I prefer the approach of showing the third parties the weaknesses of bad arguments and egregious claims. For example, Otto T. Goat has claimed variously, on many threads, things like: Black males are more likely
classical theism The Failure of Skeptical Theism The Problem of Evil is a powerful argument which takes its form in various ways, both the logical and evidential format. I was watching a video debate on the problem of evil and animal suffering between Michael Murry and Daniel Breyer. I really enjoyed it. I don't buy
Bernie Sanders Trump's Cabinet is Nuts; DeVos Gets Schooled by Warren Why is Elizabeth Warren not POTUS? Why? But before I get on to that, here is what my friend Kevin McCarthy, as many others have, has stated: Let's get this straight... A president who knows nothing about the US Constitution, has unethical business relationships, and may be influenced
Hitler I Couldn't Resist... Not sure about the provenance of this to source it, but I like it! [Update: Source - thanks below!]
AGW It's a Climate Change Conspiracy! It's such a ubiquitous claim, and it winds me up because it is so naive. It looks something like this, as made by the endlessly facepalming See Noevo on this thread: Granted, the opportunity for big profits in teaching evolution is not as great as with, say, the
Economics America Is the Greatest! Pt 2: Opportunity. This is the second part to this small series. I will repost the intro for those who have not read the first one (on standard of living). Over on another post, there are some raging threads about a number of topics from gun crime to how great America is. It
Donald Trump Best TV Show Description... Trump Inauguration This is brilliant: [From the Scottish Sunday Herald TV Guide. I am beginning to think I should look for Scottish heritage.]
Epistemology Quote of the Day: Capt Stormfield on Dealing with Religious Trolls Frequent commenter See Noevo seems, on most topics at the moment, to be trolling the threads and provoking debates on evolution. He is hugely failing in an almost comic-tragic way to pull any punches, and has shown himself to be a rank amateur who proclaims Danth's Law with
science Getting into Someone's Genes I listened to this a number of years ago and am sure I posted it here somewhen, but cannot find it. Anywho, this is well worth a listen for a good synopsis of the area of sex selection (and thus evolutionary psychology) regarding humans, and how we like to think
Consciousness Marvelling at the Brain As I wrote some time back. The other day, I was getting really frustrated with my manual coordination. I was leaving school on a Sunday after doing some work and was trying to locate a particular key on a keyring. With one hand. Whilst holding three bags with my other
Debate My Debate on Morality and God with Peter S. Williams (and Others) Here is a reminder of a debate I had on morality and God some time back at the University of Southampton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3kARrL7TW4 Let me know what you think. I was invited to University of Southampton by their Athiest Society to do a team debate
Skepticism America Is the Greatest! Pt 1: Standard of Living. Over on another post, there are some raging threads about a number of topics from gun crime to how great America is. It is on this last topic that I want to dwell. When I was at uni in the '90s, I knew an American student who was over
gun control Japan's Gun Death 2240 Times Lower than US The BBC recently produced an article looking into why Japan has such vanishingly low gun deaths and gun crime in comparison to the US. Yes. let's have a gun debate. The article included the following: Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world.
Donald Trump Meryl Streep's Stunningly Good Speech I love this, from the Golden Globes last night. Heartfelt and powerful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxyGmyEby40
Education Majority support for end to compulsory religious observance in Scottish schools From the British Humanist Association: A majority of people in Scotland believe that children should not be forced to worship in school if they do not want to, a new poll has revealed. The survey, carried out by YouGov for the Times newspaper, found that 55% of Scots either did
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