Today this comic showed up on RichardDawkins.net:
lol.
Well, yeah, it’s funny, but something here caught my attention and made me flex my Google muscles and that is…
Norway is ranked first in the world in life expectancy, literacy, education, and standard of living.
Hold on… Norway has the highest life expectancy, literacy rate, education, and standard of living? [...]
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19 Jun
Look to Norway!
19 Jun
The Campaign for Free Expression
Ideas don’t need rights. People do.
There are certain taboos that we coexist with in our society, constricting the wide range of things we could be talking about. Deviants of these taboos are often met with hostile reactions. If you’ve ever openly criticised, say… religion, but never heard somebody say something to the effect of “stop [...]
10 Jun
What is the Meaning of SecondLife?
SecondLife is on the whole a boring game. Small modicums of entertainment can be gained by seeing people attach couches to themselves as outfits. It is no wonder people are wondering “is there something more than this virtual 3D world?”
Out of boredom, and seeking answers to the great mysteries of SecondLife, I decided to attend a [...]
8 Jun
Lessons in Logic
So myself, my mother, and two guests walk into a Chinese restaurant. Part of the conversation goes like this.
Mom: The way they grow food here in the US is different from the way they grow food in China. That must be the reason why people have allergies here.
Me: Have you ever heard of the phrase correlation [...]
3 Jun
Crop Circle: Sign of an Enlightened Era
A 250 meter long jelly fish has appeared on a farm in England, so reports the BBC. But note the following sentence from the article…
She said she was not concerned about tracking down the culprits and the incident has not been reported to the police.
What’s missing from this sentence?
They’re not jumping to the conclusions that [...]
18 May
Can I “Borrow” This?
At the beginning of the school year, I asked my biology teacher if I could borrow his Planet Earth DVDs. He went ahead and let me take it home for the weekend and I never brought it back (actually I returned it to him today). This is because I have a huge crush on Sir [...]
6 May
Logic
It all started with ghosts.
Actually it started with 9/11 conspiracy theorists, but then it moved on to ghosts. A friend of mine from Atheist Nexus, Edwin, said that he believe in ghosts. When asked why he basically cited anecdotal evidence. When it was explained to him why it was not the case that anecdotal evidence [...]
26 Apr
Putting it Simply
Recently this article appeared in the Guardian which appears to be accusing Hitchens, Dawkins, etctera of wanting to take away the liberty of freedom of religion and, therefore, not being liberals.
Russell Blackford has a great response here but as it is something that people could potentially accuse the Atheist movement in general of, I thought [...]
22 Apr
God Tests Miss California’s Faith
In case you haven’t seen already…
Two things…
She did not actually answer the question. The question was: should states follow suit in allowing gay marriage? She said that we can choose between “same sex marriage” and “opposite” marriage, and then says that she believes that marriage is between a man and a [...]
