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Archive for November, 2008

Presentations Complete!

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I've finally finished off my library of presentations to counter creationist claims.  I'm afraid I haven't been able to deal with them anywhere near as thoroughly as I would have liked to do, but at least there's a start. I'm ...

More presentations

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 Posted in Creationism | No Comments »

I've just put up a load more presentations. Just four more left and then I'll be finished and I can return to the way things were :) I apologise for not adding in any other material at the moment - the ...

Some new slides

Sunday, November 16th, 2008 Posted in Creationism | No Comments »

I've added some more slides to the Presentation page. I'm afraid I'm getting a bit slow on these - they take a great deal of time to research and write I'm afraid. I'll see whether I can speed up soon. ...

Crappy TV

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 Posted in Bad media | No Comments »

Just a short rant this one. Well, not so much a rant as a request. I'm not being mean, and I hope I'm not being elitist, when I say "please, television executives, will you kindly stop wasting so much money ...

Get a sense of humour

Saturday, November 8th, 2008 Posted in Bad media, Politics | No Comments »

With apologies to Bill Maher: New Rule: People with no sense of humour should stop complaining about things said by comedians. Seriously people, if you don't like comedy, then don't watch it. But don't stop the rest of us from enjoying it ...

Woo! Happy days!

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in Politics | No Comments »

Awww America, we love you. I'm so happy this morning to wake up to the best news imaginable. Congratulations to President-elect Obama. I know you can make a really positive change in your country and we in Europe are all looking ...

Also, just for the Californians…

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Posted in Politics | No Comments »

Make sure that, on your way to vote for Obama/Biden, you also go out and vote a big fat 'no' on Proposition 8. For those of you not in California, Prop. 8 is a crazy bit of homophobia that has ...

A Message to all Americans

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Posted in Politics | No Comments »

Please, if you have any love whatsoever for the future of science and reason, go out tomorrow and vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden. If you do not then there is a very real chance that John McCain and ...

Mis-Information Theory

Saturday, November 1st, 2008 Posted in Creationism | 1 Comment »

After a few subtle hints, I've finally decided to fulfil the promise I made in an earlier post to talk a little bit about the subject of information in Evolution. This all comes from the commonly-held creationist belief that evolution somehow ...

UK Kids to get finance lessons

Saturday, November 1st, 2008 Posted in Education, Politics | No Comments »

I'm catching up on a few bits of recent news that I haven't written about. Also, there are a few more presentations on my site - see the tab at the top of this page for more details. I've finally ...