If you watched Richard Dawkins’ documentary The Root of All Evil? earlier this year, you will remember Ted Haggard. He’s the sickeningly smarmy evangelical priest who threw Dawkins out of his church for calling his congregation animals (when actually all Dawkins had done was to tell him that evolution was true). Well, it seems that… Continue reading Ted Haggard
Month: November 2006
Science or Superstition?
Tony Blair apparently thinks that we should be encouraging more young people to become scientists. Well, maybe he should stop trying to send them to superstition schools.
NaNoWriMo
Bugger. It’s already November 3rd and I’ve completely forgotten about NaNoWriMo. It’s been a few years since I tried it (and failed) and I was intending to have another got this year. It’s too late though. I could probabyl catch up over the weekend, but this is going to be a busy month and there’s… Continue reading NaNoWriMo
Daily Mail Outrage
I do love a nice bit of Daily Mail outrage. And this one is too good to miss. They’ve got all over-excited about Monday’s episode of Spooks which featured a group of christian extremists who were killing muslims. Given the number of episodes where MI5 have been foiling Muslim plots, this one seemed to be… Continue reading Daily Mail Outrage
Superstition Schools
Muriel Gray talks a lot of sense on “faith” schools. Let’s stop describing these tax-funded establishments as faith schools. They are superstition schools, for that is what they teach. Alongside hard facts, innocent children are hoodwinked into accepting as real the mythology of virgin births, gods who regard women with bare heads as wicked harlots,… Continue reading Superstition Schools