Not content with telling everyone that bendy buses and atheism are a danger to the public at large, Rentaquote Stephen Green from Christian Voice has been spouting more crapulence today. As an aside, it’s interesting how these people always claim to be speaking for their religion as a whole, despite the fact that most Christians [...]

I get fed up with hearing Richard Dawkins repeatedly rant on about how religion is bad, how religious people are stupid, and how anyone who disagrees with him can’t possibly consider themselves a scientist, because religion is specifically about not thinking. There are a number of reasons I get fed up with hearing this. Partly [...]

It’s obviously a time to be thinking about death — not ideal for someone who suffers from thanatophobia — but sometimes you have to think about death in order to accept the absurdity of life in the first place. All I can say is that it wasn’t me who started it. First, we had Lady [...]

A while ago I wrote a post entitled of Aliens & Abominable Snowmen where I referenced a BBC News report which suggested that a series of tests carried out on hairs purported to be from a yeti had proved so far inconclusive. But they are inconclusive no longer! DNA tests on the hairs — obtained [...]

Who stands to gain? What do they stand to gain? Let’s start with a biblical quote I came across the other day… For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.Mark 13:8 This is then used by some people to justify that we [...]

Creationism should be discussed in school science lessons, rather than excluded, says the director of education at the Royal Society.BBC News I have no objection to people being ‘Creationists’ or proponents of ‘Intelligent Design’. It may indeed be that an almighty being has chosen — via whatever mechanism — to create man as he is [...]

…only I wouldn’t like to predict exactly how nigh. A huge particle accelerator experiment is about to start and a tiny group of people believe it could spell the end of the world. But why are we so obsessed with the possibility of apocalypse?BBC News Magazine In summary, the basic theory is this. The Large [...]

Your past life diagnosis: I don’t know how you feel about it, but you were female in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Portugal around the year 1575. Your profession was that of a sailor or shoemaker. Your brief psychological profile in your past life: Inquisitive, inventive, you liked [...]

I have lived in a number of haunted houses. Well, I say haunted, but that may not be actually the case. I know people who are afraid of ghosts. I am ghost-agnostic. I don’t believe in them, but nor am I positive that there is no such thing. But I’m quite happy to write off [...]

Some oddments from the meedja this week… Firstly, it appears Edgar Mitchell, former astronaut and one of the few people to have walked on the moon, believes that we are being visited by aliens: Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell, said he was aware of many UFO visits to Earth during his career with NASA [...]