Here’s an odd thing: a guest blog on Scientific American, calling on us to consider the possibility of a Creator of our universe. Mmmmmmkay…. First of all, Stephanie Zvan, likewise writing a guest blog on Scientific American, has neatly deconstructed the failure that is Naff’s rather, well, naff, post. Go read that. I’ll wait …. Back? Cool....
I walked past a sign this morning outside the train station on my way to work. It’s a sign I’ve walked past quite a few times without noticing it terribly much. This morning I did notice it, and having been reading George Orwell’s 1984 just five minutes earlier, was rather taken by its Newspeak-ness....
“This, is the world that you know.” My registrars and I have been reading about and discussing phenomenology, in preparation for a presentation (which we did today, but I was most disappointed that the video clips I had embedded – and that worked fine on other computers – didn’t play on the laptop we had...
As I mentioned a few days back, I used to be what PZ Meyers terms a dictionary atheist. in that post PZ is quite disparaging of “dictionary atheists” – this people who simply don’t believe in god/s and by definition then describe themselves as atheists. For PZ this is not enough. He describes it as...
I read this morning about Anonymous hacking a security firm whose CEO was attempting to discover their real identities and go to the FBI. I presume this is seen as a good thing, as Anonymous support Wikileaks, and therefore must be right in all things. However… It is worth thinking about some of what they...
