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- August 28th, 2016, 10:02 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Why are some Christians Young Earth Creationists
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7536
Why are some Christians Young Earth Creationists
https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/why-are-some-christians-young-earth-creationists/ reblogged from my good friend (the Reverend) https://michaelroberts4004.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/why-are-some-christians-creationists/ But I argue on my post that there's more to it than he says: YEC be...
- February 20th, 2016, 10:06 am
- Forum: Education
- Topic: Unelected Church nominees sit, vote on Council Education Committees in Scotland, England
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5799
Unelected Church nominees sit, vote on Council Education Committees in Scotland, England
With, of course, massive over-representation of hell-fire merchants and creationists: An affront to democracy: Unelected Church nominees on Council Education Committees in Scotland (and England) https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/an-affront-to-democracy-unelected-church-nominees-on-counc...
- February 9th, 2016, 1:18 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Removing Bishops from the House of Lords; Government response to petition
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2336
Removing Bishops from the House of Lords; Government response to petition
"Bishops provide an important independent voice and spiritual insight into the work of the Upper House and while they make no claims to direct representation, they seek to be a voice for all people of faiths. The House of Lords also contains a number of other senior faith representatives." And faith...
- January 9th, 2016, 1:05 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: Creationist fallacies on parade: How to lie about radiometric dating
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3752
Creationist fallacies on parade: How to lie about radiometric dating
Creationist fallacies on parade: How to lie about radiometric dating, evolution, and even nuclear physics https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/201 ... r-physics/ https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp
- August 31st, 2015, 12:41 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Science Magazine: "Birth of the Moralizing Gods"
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7548
Science Magazine: "Birth of the Moralizing Gods"
What do people think of this new approach in the study of religion as a phenomenon?
https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/201 ... zing-gods/
https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/201 ... zing-gods/
- June 29th, 2015, 2:28 pm
- Forum: Education
- Topic: 349 Scots pupils challenge Christian monopoly of RO
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5600
349 Scots pupils challenge Christian monopoly of RO
Will this spread? 349 students at North Berwick High School have signed a petition challenging Christianity’s monopoly of Religious Observance; remember that the school is nominally non-denominational, which in practice has meant, as it generally does in Scotland, Protestant: Petition for the Secula...
- June 14th, 2015, 12:00 pm
- Forum: Education
- Topic: Evolution, Creationism, Xianity; what teachers need to know
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5192
Evolution, Creationism, Xianity; what teachers need to know
Evolution, Creationism, and Christianity; what teachers need to know https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/evolution-creationism-and-christianity-what-teachers-need-to-know/ Outline of suggested teaching materials; suggestions and comments invited. I team up with a geologist historian CofE ...
- May 30th, 2015, 10:43 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: When a Young Earth Creationist discovers a 60 Myo fossil
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2107
When a Young Earth Creationist discovers a 60 Myo fossil
And a rare interesting find at that, from the early Palaeogene, when life was radiating rapidly into the niches that had been occupied by the dinosaurs and their cousins. https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/what-happens-when-a-young-earth-creationist-discovers-a-60000000-year-old-fossil/ ...
- December 28th, 2014, 12:07 pm
- Forum: Education
- Topic: Answers in Genesis praises Scottish Government's policy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5223
Answers in Genesis praises Scottish Government's policy
Answers in Genesis praises Scottish Government's creationism teaching policy http://wp.me/p21T1L-pc The Scottish Goverment (through a civil servant; are they already planning a retreat?) has come out against the Scottish Secular Society petition asking them "to issue official guidance to bar the pre...
- June 21st, 2014, 4:35 pm
- Forum: Education
- Topic: Keeping creationism out of schools in Scoland
- Replies: 21
- Views: 15222
Keeping creationism out of schools in Scoland
Recent welcome developments in England stop at the border. Scottish Secular Society are therefore drafting a petition to Scottish Parliament to bar creationism from schools: more at http://wp.me/p21T1L-gm Comments welcome, especially suggestions of possible supporters, and information about actual c...
- April 12th, 2014, 12:32 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: Antifragility and Anomaly; Why Science Works
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1213
Antifragility and Anomaly; Why Science Works
Antifragility and Anomaly; Why Science Works http://wp.me/p21T1L-dQ Scientific theories are rarely refuted by counter-example. On the contrary, anomalies give information about special situations, leaving the scientific basis of the theory stronger, because better informed. Radiometric dating, plane...
- March 29th, 2014, 12:55 pm
- Forum: Education
- Topic: Creationism in the classroom; in 2 mins you can help stop it
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1726
Creationism in the classroom; in 2 mins you can help stop it
Creationism in the classroom; in 2 minutes you can help stop it; here’s how and why http://wp.me/p21T1L-cl Background and link to British Humanist Association letter writing campaign. Noah's Ark Zoo Farm, Accelerated Christian Education, Everyday Champions, twice renamed, finally flops, the latest o...
- March 12th, 2014, 10:53 am
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: Why I do NOT “believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution"
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5832
Why I do NOT “believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution"
Why I do NOT “believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution" http://wp.me/p21T1L-c2 Fact not theory; 150 years on from Darwin's watershed publication; evidence not belief. Words matter.
- March 1st, 2014, 1:07 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: Creationist Tron Church Glasgow Minister misquotes, misleads
- Replies: 1
- Views: 999
Creationist Tron Church Glasgow Minister misquotes, misleads
Creationism and Evolution; An Open Letter to a Misleadingly Quote-mining Minister http://wp.me/p21T1L-bD
This congregation recently left the Church of Scotland, over the ordination of gay ministers.
This congregation recently left the Church of Scotland, over the ordination of gay ministers.
- February 23rd, 2014, 1:39 pm
- Forum: Education
- Topic: How NOT To Defend Evolution
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3705
How NOT To Defend Evolution
(Come to think of it, have I misframed the problem by using the word "defend", as if there were something that could sensibly be attacked?) Anyway, my critique of a well-meaning but disastrous article in Forbes : How NOT To Defend Evolution; With Friends Like These Who Needs Enemies? http://wp.me/p2...
- January 18th, 2014, 10:27 am
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Darwin's agnosticism, for reasons much misrepresented
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2140
Darwin's agnosticism, for reasons much misrepresented
Darwin dismissed Paley's argument from specific design, moved towards accepting the argument from the overal design of the Universe (his position when he wrote On the Origin of Species ), but then moved to agnosticism for interesting and often misquoted reasons: Darwin, God, Alvin Plantinga, and Evo...
- September 16th, 2013, 1:59 pm
- Forum: Education
- Topic: Young Earth Creationist books handed out in Scottish primary
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2906
Young Earth Creationist books handed out in Scottish primary
Reviewed, with links to background story.Worst than you could have imagined - from dinosaurs on the Ark to Young Earth to atheists can't be moral to evolution scientists are liars to Real science supports Genesis, and given out to all the kids at a Scottish primary, by a chaplain from a sect that ha...
- September 7th, 2013, 10:27 am
- Forum: Education
- Topic: Creationism run wild for years in Scottish State School
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4770
Creationism run wild for years in Scottish State School
Children in Scottish state school given books showing dinosaurs pulling carts for humans and describing evolution as a lie. Gift from Church of Christ sect evangelist who had been school chaplain for 8 years, imported assistants from US, and discussed the Religious Education syllabus (which is suppo...
- June 23rd, 2013, 11:00 am
- Forum: Education
- Topic: Sex, lies,& abstinence-only in Scotland; what FoI dredged up
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1741
Sex, lies,& abstinence-only in Scotland; what FoI dredged up
The latest on the Pam Stenzel horror lecture scandal: http://wp.me/p21T1L-5X This is what happens when you allow Catholic schools to classify human sexuality as part of religious education, and give control of religious education to the Catholic Bishops' Council, a committee of professional celibate...
- June 12th, 2013, 10:18 am
- Forum: Education
- Topic: Young Earth Creationist advising, addressing Scottish school
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3815
Young Earth Creationist advising, addressing Scottish school
For more details see http://wp.me/p21T1L-58 Cahplaincy panel (!) member Dr. Nagy Iskander has singled out for praise by Answers in Genesis, is a welcome visitor and occasional speaker at Ken Ham’s Creation Museum in Kentucky, regards Young Earth Creationism as true, as good science, and as foundatio...