Sixth Presentation is Up
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 Posted in Biology, Creationism, General Science | No Comments »The sixth of my lecture series on science and creationism is now up on YouTube. This one is all about Abiogenesis, the origin of life from non-living chemicals. This is a notorious subject, as it's so difficult to get any ...
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 ...
The Fifth Presentation is Now Live
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 Posted in Creationism, Education, General Science | No Comments »I'm just writing to let you know that the fifth presentation in my video lecture series is now live. This one is on the important topic of radiometric dating. It is divided into three parts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Apologies again - my ...
Third Presentation is Live!
Monday, February 21st, 2011 Posted in Astronomy, Creationism, Education | No Comments »Hi, The third of my presentations on Science and Creationism is now live on YouTube. This one is on the topic of Astronomy, and it's in three parts. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Enjoy!
Second Presentation is now live!
Friday, February 4th, 2011 Posted in Astronomy, Creationism, Education | No Comments »Hi all, I've now posted the second of my presentations on Science & Creationism live on YouTube. This one's on cosmology. As ever, I'm following the lecture slides from Kent Hovind's presentations, so it's a slightly bizarre selection os topics, ...
Video Presentations
Sunday, January 30th, 2011 Posted in Creationism, Education, General Science | No Comments »Hi all. I've been working on doing video versions of my presentations on the topic of science and creationism. You can see the originals if you check out the "presentations" tab above. I'm going back over these presentations, and recording audio presentations ...
Texas Narrowly Upholds Reason
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Creationism, Education, Politics | No Comments »I suppose I should be happy that the Texas lawmakers have upheld the bill which removed a loophole through which creationists slipped their nonsense into textbooks across the state. The new wording is that students should be taught to "analyze and evaluate ...
Brains may be 300 million years old…
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in Creationism | No Comments »...and some poeple still haven't worked out how to use them! http://www.livescience.com/animals/090302-oldest-brain-fossil.html Yes, would you belive that a fossilised brain dating back 300 million years has been discovered in a dig in Kansas. Which is, as many of you will know, a ...
A Formula for Happiness
Monday, March 2nd, 2009 Posted in Creationism, Psychology | No Comments »I came across this video of a talk by Dan Gilbert at the TED Conference. His talk, called "Exploring the Frontiers of Happiness", examines the way in which human beings estimate their own happiness and, more importantly, what would cause ...
Responding to Creationist Requests
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Posted in Creationism | 3 Comments »PZ Myers has posted a wonderful example of exactly how to reply to a creationist when they ask you for a public forum to discuss their Intelligent Design nonsense. Part of me is still slightly annoyed that we're having to give these sad delusionals ...
