Judi S.

If I am debating someone (yes, almost always a theist) and point out a fallacy in their argument, I generally find that they have never been told this before. When they try the regular “The Bible is true because it was written by God and he would not recount an error”, I will point out the fallacies in that statement. Most have never heard the…[Read more]

When I suggested above that we should replace Religious Instruction Indoctrination classes in schools with lessons in Critical Thinking (plus Ethics and Citizenship) I may have given the impression that I see them as opposites. I don’t. I just think Religion should never be taught in schools and indoctrinating children by doing so is child a…[Read more]

@theencogitationer – for the record, I am not a number, I am a freeman…..who just happens to look cool on a Pennyfarthing 🙂

Critical Thinking should be taught in schools instead of undergoing religious indoctrination classes. It is a skill that improves with use.

The Metallica video is loading for me but I will link here again.

Not for everyone but World CRISPR Day is Oct.20th. Registration is free for this virtual event.

@Unseen.

I think it is a reference to her Monster Ball show and “Born this Way”. We are “determined” by our genetics and not by the society we live in. The “initial conditions” that make us who we are coded into our DNA long ago. The same can be said with the “initial conditions” of the early Universe. It “had” to become the way it is because of…[Read more]

@TheEncogitationer

I understand the sentiment about requiring antidotes to theistic nonsense. Lee “the former atheist” Strobel offers a Degree in Applied Apologetics which has an elective in Critical Thinking and Logic. “Well fuck me pink” was the wording that echoed in my mind when I first discovered that.

Every religious person is a former…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!

Have a great week everyone!

Good to hear this positive news from you Pope Beanie (Your Holiness). It was only afterwards when we were chatting that I mentioned I was in your area but at the time I did not know you lived there and 5 days earlier I did not even know I was going to America. It was a spur of the moment decision based on a potential business venture that had time…[Read more]

@theencogitationer – Yes, thanks for the update. I think you published it in last weeks school post by mistake. I had also updated the post to mention the number of victims.

What I am waiting for is not an apology from Catholics. It would, given what we have heard over the last 20-30 years, a meaningless effort. I do not believe them when they…[Read more]

erratum: the figure for the number of estimated victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests I listed in the second link above is wrong. 10,000 is a sickening number and difficult to comprehend. It is now reported to be around 330,000 victims. But not all of the 3,000 perpetrators were Catholic priests. Only about 2,000 of them were. The other…[Read more]

More evidence of just how bad FB is when to comes to Democracy.

It’s all about the Delta strain now and any newer variants that might evolve.

Ireland is doing well now. The figure in the table of 72.5% is for the entire population but it is over 92% for full vaccinated for those aged 18 and over.  All my family and friends in the USA are also fully vaccinated.

Thanks Strega!