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Search found 67 matches
- May 27th, 2008, 5:26 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: Religion is a product of evolution, software suggests.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 911
Religion is a product of evolution, software suggests.
Religion is a product of evolution, software suggests. God may work in mysterious ways, but a simple computer program called Evogod may explain how religion evolved. By assuming that a small number of people have a genetic predisposition to pass along unverifiable information, the program predicts ...
- March 30th, 2008, 10:30 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: Blueprint N Ireland
- Replies: 0
- Views: 986
Blueprint N Ireland
Copy of email sent today to members of Hum Ass of N Ireland Try Sky or iplayer if outside NI http://www.nireland.humanists.net ---------------------------------------------- You probably all have seen the promos for William Crawley's new prog Blueprint starting this week on BBC 1 N Ireland but here'...
- March 20th, 2008, 7:55 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: Should creationists be given a platform?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4651
Re: Should creationists be given a platform?
this is a quote from a contributor to the blog of a BBC N. Ireland presenter of a major new series detailing the natural history of Ireland - starting Mon 31st March see http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2008/03/answers_on_an_electronic_postc.html The object in question is a representation of the BBC mi...
- November 30th, 2007, 4:38 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: The earth is 6,000 years old.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4290
see this link for a full page article in Belfast Telegraph Fri 30/11/07 with photos of the Niagra Falls and the Grand Canyon I've contacted geologists at the Ulster Museum - closed for renovations at the moment - and suggested they ask the Tele for the chance of a rebuttal article - and worst of all...
- November 24th, 2007, 2:04 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: Dover school court case video in 12 chapters
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1343
I really liked the demolition of one of the main tenets of creationism - irreducible design esp with ref to the bacterial flagellum and the mousetrap transcript from chapter 8 DAVID DEROSIER: So, if we think about— what it means to be irreducibly complex, the argument is that if you take away even o...
- November 22nd, 2007, 3:25 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: Dover school court case video in 12 chapters
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1343
Dover school court case video in 12 chapters
Apologies if this has been posted already! Very interesting and well presented video of the Dover Creationist/Evolution court case in 10 min chunks http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/program.html for example - chapter 12 CLOSING ARGUMENTS This segment: presents closing arguments. reports how anti-ID ca...
- November 9th, 2007, 8:07 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: The trouble with reason!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2101
Re: The trouble with reason!
MariaMaria wrote:I agree with it too - most refreshing. As for the thread title, the trouble isn't with reason but with people.
that is the title of the editorial in the print edition
alan
- November 8th, 2007, 11:49 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: The trouble with reason!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2101
The trouble with reason!
Interesting editorial from this week's edition of New Scientist If anyone would like to read the report referred to from the 'Beyond Belief' symposium - let me know Editorial : Humankind cannot live by rational thought alone 10 November 2007 From New Scientist Print Edition. SCIENCE and religion: j...
- August 31st, 2007, 2:39 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Good video links
- Replies: 233
- Views: 203130
You may find the following interesting : the unedited footage of Richard Dawkins's interview with the theologian Alister McGrath -- which didn't make the final cut in Dawkins's television series "The Root of All Evil" -- is now available here. I notice that some commentators already detect some skul...
- August 27th, 2007, 5:38 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: Richard Dawkins - Enemies of Reason:Slaves to Superstition
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7330
- August 27th, 2007, 5:10 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: Richard Dawkins - Enemies of Reason:Slaves to Superstition
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7330
Dawkins again!! vs another Irish Christian apologist
for your info - "The God Delusion" Debate Wednesday, October 3, 2007 The Alys Stephens Center Birmingham, Alabama http://www.fixed-point.org/ Lennox is the author of God's Undertaker to be published later this year Sunday's interview of John Lennox by William Crawley of BBC NI available here http:/...
- August 25th, 2007, 6:15 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Fotos from the All-Ireland Summer School - Aug 2007
- Replies: 2
- Views: 992
Fotos from the All-Ireland Summer School - Aug 2007
Despite the rather wet Saturday we hope the over 70 guests enjoyed the weekend of talks, food, drink, music and craic!- From the look of the fotos, it would seem so!! Spot the think humanism admin!! Check out the photos here - I suggest you click on 'view as slideshow' http://www.flickr.com/photos/9...
- July 26th, 2007, 6:01 pm
- Forum: Comedy Club
- Topic: Fat Penguin
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4792
- July 23rd, 2007, 6:30 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Suicide
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8604
- July 23rd, 2007, 5:57 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
- Topic: Please help women in domestic refuges
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3486
- July 23rd, 2007, 5:42 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Suicide
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8604
As a father - I think the most important consideration with suicide is the impact on the family. It's not as if you can explain beforehand, because you would be certified ( if the NHS can find someone), before you can carry out your wishes. Of course you could leave a detailed explanation. Sorry - I...
- July 23rd, 2007, 5:03 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Was the Bible the world's first Wikipedia entry?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1938
Was the Bible the world's first Wikipedia entry?
Will Crawley's latest post is worth a look and the comments probably even more so! Bart Ehrman's new book, Misquoting Jesus, defends something like that claim. It's not exactly an original idea, but it is a novel repackaging of an old one -- namely, that the authors of the Bible, some of them "barel...
- July 22nd, 2007, 11:38 pm
- Forum: Social Club
- Topic: Much better than even a good Walk!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2994
- July 22nd, 2007, 7:05 pm
- Forum: Social Club
- Topic: Much better than even a good Walk!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2994
- July 22nd, 2007, 6:49 pm
- Forum: Social Club
- Topic: Much better than even a good Walk!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2994