Skeptical Heresies #5
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 Posted in Creationism, Education, General | No Comments »Presentation work is ongoing. I should have the seventh presentation up soon on the subject of Fossils. In the meantime: 5. Separation of Church & State is a poor argument against creationism It's always annoyed me that the fight against Creationism ...
Skeptical Heresies #4
Saturday, March 19th, 2011 Posted in Creationism, Education, General, Psychology, Religion | No Comments »I've almost finished the sixth of my presentations - this one is on abiogenesis. But for now, here's another skeptical heresy: 4. Some skeptics do not have education as their goal Yes, you know who I'm talking about. And that's my point. The ...
Skeptical Heresies #3
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 Posted in General, Psychology, Religion | No Comments »I'm in the middle of recording the next presentation in my lecture series on Science and Creationism, but I thought I'd add in the third of my Skeptical Heresies. 3. Sometimes it's rational to behave irrationally This one is a bit subtle, ...
Skeptical Heresies #1
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 Posted in General | No Comments »I've been working on the Creationism videos quite a lot lately, but thought I'd take a break to talk about something a bit different. I want to introduce my top ten Skeptical Heresies. OK, so the concept of heresy ...
Sense about Science
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 Posted in General, General Science, Health, Internet, Politics | No Comments »Hi all, Okay, so I haven't written for two months. Apologies for that. I'm afraid other things have been hihger priority recently. However, I'm just writing a brief note to urge everyone to sign up on the Sense About Science petition There's ...
C++ Release Advice
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »This is a short post that will mean nothing to almost all readers, but I need to say it as it took me so long to find a solution. This way, there's a solution out there that people will be ...
Mind Games
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 Posted in Education, General | No Comments »Just a short note to tell you that I've finished working on my latest project, called MindGames. It's a fairly simple freely-downloadable game that lets you practice a selection of simple mental agility problems which will stretch your mind to ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 4
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in General, Internet | No Comments »In this final part of my 'look ahead to 2009' series, I'm looking at technology. What were the trends that dominated 2008, and what can we expect in the year ahead? There have been several large trends that have been extremely ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 3
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Conspiracy Theories, General, General Science | No Comments »Environmental issues came to the front of everyone's mind in 2008 - right up until the credit crunch began to bite. And it may well turn out that the credit crunch was just the catalyst required to get people really ...
Merry Christmas!
Thursday, December 25th, 2008 Posted in General, General Science | 1 Comment »A very merry Christmas to all my readers. It's important that we remember, on this day, a baby born a very long time ago, in the early hours of the morning of 25th December, to an unmarried mother and absent father, ...
