Year: 2010

On atheism and evidence for God

I want to know, and many thousands of Muslim girls and women have a right to know, why understanding and infinite tolerance is practised with particular cultural traditions that are clearly oppressive of women.

The sequences used in Sheldrake’s research are not properly randomized.

Foucault cited Borges, but some of his followers cite the encyclopedia as fact.

Green belts, trees, women, poverty, empowerment, corruption, resistance.

I also strongly disagree with the implications of your statement that faithfulness and loyalty to the church and church leaders never permits expressions of disagreement, or questioning of our church leaders – especially in an academic setting.

The impact of censorship is in fact to undermine progressive movements within minority communities.

She refused to perform illegal abortions, so three men assaulted her

The Seville Statement on Violence was written in the language of sociopolitical activism, not that of science.

Peer-review committee said he hadn’t provided ‘adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of evolution, and not intelligent-design theory, was correct.’

Jesus is reading The Philosophers’ Magazine.

Not for fans of the saint

It is not possible to insult or defame someone who has been dead for 1,374 years.

A commitment to women’s equality has eroded and strong opposition to this commitment has emerged.

There’s plenty of science hijacking in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science.

Misdiagnoses, re-using unsterile needles, no pain medications…

If belief in God is a matter of ‘faith’ in contrast to reason, there’s nothing to distinguish it from mere wishful thinking.

Entrenches the opinions of parents.

Violence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics.

One of the greatest living skeptics talks about such follies as psychoanalysis, ID, and contemporary literary theory