For a while there’s been a photo circulating on Reddit, Facebook, etc., of a 4th grader’s science test in the USA. If you’ve not seen it, here it is: According to Snopes, which is a fairly reliable site for debunking or proving what may otherwise be urban legends on the net …
Sometimes it seems daily that we’re assailed with all sorts of seemingly crazy ideals and directives that fundamentalists and other religious extremists would have us believe are directives from god. I’ve often wondered where they came from, but it suddenly occurred to me this morning that they must come …
David Marr wrote an opinion piece for the Sydney Morning Herald today which should terrify a lot of people. The Australian Labor Party, that supposed bastion of people’s rights, is working on consolidating all Australian Federal anti-discrimination laws. Sounds good, right? Except, what will be enshrined in the laws will …
One of the first and most important lessons I was taught in Philosophy at University was a simple yet profound statement: Old ideas don’t die; the people who hold them do. I remember having a slight chuckle about it when it was first said – I immediately pictured a bunch …
“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Todd Akin, 2012. “Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen.” Richard Mourdock, 2012. The anti-science climate in the United States is …
“Those who injure the souls of believers with scorn and derision must be put in their place and in some cases also punished,” said Bamberg Archbishop Ludwig Schick on Wednesday. “Bishop calls for blasphemy laws“, The Local. The notion of blasphemy is both one of the most ridiculous, and simultaneously, …
Apparently, there’s a new christian political party in town, the “Australian Christian Party”, and they mean to become the new third force in Australian politics. The Australian political system is historically comprised of two behemoths, the supposedly left-leaning Labor Party and the conservative Liberal/National coalition. Together at any given point …
Normally when we think of truck based shipping in Australia we think of the contents as being such things as food, consumer goods, even household contents. There’s a new truck driving up the east coast of Australia at the moment, and it’s only got one thing in it: hate. Organised …
Perspective looms fairly important in our lives. It allows us to empathise, to sympathise, to comprehend, to draw conclusions – it’s not the be all and end all of knowledge acquisition of course. But it is an important factor. We even have sayings for it, from the slightly esoteric, …
I was inspired by “How do atheists find meaning in life?“, and then a subsequent discussion on Facebook that quite rightly pointed out the sometimes too-generalised criticisms levelled by the author, to write a bit about the rules I live by as an atheist. This life is the only time …
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