“A science teacher beat a pupil around the head with a dumbbell while shouting “die, die, die”, a court heard” – more…
Is it just me, but when I read the line
“No-one can say for one moment what happened to this boy was deserved or justified”
… er, sorry? This teacher was reportedly “extraordinary“, so what drove [...]
Filed under: Science, Uncategorized on April 26th, 2010 | Comments Off
“One in eight babies in the UK is born prematurely and prematurity is the leading cause of disability and of infant death in the first month after birth.” -BBC
Still think humunz are the result of an intelligent designer? Anyone holding this view demonstrates as much intelligence as their imagined designer.
Filed under: Delusions, Science on September 18th, 2008 | Comments Off
“Fifteen years ago Pope John Paul II officially conceded that in fact the Earth was not stationary“. (BBC, Jan 2008).
Sorry, is it just me? But this infallible voice of the chosen-deity on Earth … erm, doesn’t it strike anyone that the boy’s just a tad slow on the uptake here? Seriously people.
Even Ratzinger – [...]
Filed under: Delusions, Humour, Science on January 15th, 2008 | Comments Off
Praise de Lord! Jesus Camp – now that’s a documentary I MUST see. Whilst I’ll leave the reader to read about Jesus Camp for themselves, I will say that it touches heavily on the immersion of children into the ideology of the parents. Richard Dawkins has recently identified this as a key mechanism in the [...]
Filed under: Delusions, Science on December 7th, 2007 | Comments Off
The Nisshin Maru, a giant factory whaling ship, is the flagship of the Japanese whaling fleet which once again has set out to massacre a thousand whales in the Southern Antarctic waters. This time, the first in decades, 50 humpback whales are within their harpoon gun sites. Owned by the (curiously named) Institute for [...]
Filed under: Science on November 29th, 2007 | Comments Off
It would be a better world if -
a) People would listen to Noam Chomsky
Filed under: Science on November 11th, 2007 | Comments Off
A fascinating BBC report:
“The earliest evidence for the existence of reptiles has been found in Canada“
- referring to 315 million year old reptile tracks found in Canada (Full Article). They add
“The origin of reptiles, in particular the appearance of eggs protected by a shell, allowed four-legged animals to avoid having to go back into water [...]
Filed under: Science on October 17th, 2007 | Comments Off
Betraying my current fascination with online video sites once more, this documentary on Stage6 entitled The Engineering of Consent leaps out at me. Having just finished a short but fascinating account by Noam Chomsky of how 1930’s American politicians devised means of ensuring the population would do as they were required to do by Government, [...]
Filed under: Science on October 14th, 2007 | Comments Off
Browsing the Stage6 video site I stumbled across a video narrated by Carl Sagan, entitled Pale Blue Dot: Wanderers, Episode 1. It’s actually been put together by a chap in Japan, using digitised copies of an audio book, in an attempt to make a series that, alas, Carl never got to make, in the style [...]
Filed under: Science on October 13th, 2007 | Comments Off
In words that could be taken from my own mouth, 10 questions that every intelligent Christian must answer (Youtube) from the associated website Why Won’t God Heal Amputees?.
There are several Other Youtube videos by the same author which really, really deserve watching by anyone who hasn’t quite realised the danger that delusions pose, noteably [...]
Filed under: Delusions, Science on June 4th, 2007 | Comments Off
