Rosa Rubicondior

One of the major problems faced by creationists and religious apologists is the mountain of science and scientific theories they need to som...

The River Evenlode By the age of about ten I knew every path in every wood in the square mile around the small ancient northern Oxfordshire ...

The Atheist community (for want of a better term) is probably amongst the best educated of any community in terms of the range of interests ...

Okay, Christians, let's be sensible for a moment. Answer these for me, please: You tell me I need your god's forgiven...

During my lifetime, and mostly since the end of WWI, Britain and the rest of Europe and the USA, indeed all of the developed world and a gre...

If a stranger told you he was Jesus would you trust in Jesus or would you want evidence? That question is not a facetious as it might appea...

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Creationist debating tactics all boil down to a single two-step strategy. Looking at these gives us a very strong clue both to those at who...

Ancestor worship in Vietnam As children we look up to the adults in our society. We think they are full of wisdom and know just about ev...

You know, the more involvement I have with social networking sites like Twitter and Redditt, and earlier so-called user groups or fora, the ...

For a change, a purely science blog rather than explaining the idiocy of creationism, Bible literalism and superstitious belief in magic in ...

Airbus A320 Sitting inside a plane a few months ago I was struck by the similarity between aeroplanes and segmented animals. On a typical...

Whilst reading the excellent A Universe From Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss , I was struck by the following example of the different approac...

The trouble with nothing is that you can't say what it is because it's er... nothing, so there is nothing to describe or define, wel...

There seems to be something in the human psyche which assumes sacrifice in general and blood sacrifice in particular is somehow magical and ...

Inspired by the powerful arguments made by  B. H. Shadduck, Ph.D. in his devastating polemic against Darwin published in 1925, and which i...

With all the dire warnings now in the media on the dangers of militant secularists and the imminent threat they pose to the fabri...

Disbelief in evolution is but one of a long line of religiously inspired disbelief in scientific ideas and principle now taken for granted b...

According to the Bible, God once flooded the earth to a depth which covered the highest mountains (Genesis 7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did th...

Having nothing better to do, I thought I would browse a creationist website just to see what devastating rebuttals of science they are selli...