Science

Andy on March 24th, 2009

I often read - and get comments here - of the kind, “how can you possibly believe that life came about purely by chance?”. Well, the answer is simple, I don’t. This is a ‘popular’ misconception of evolution and natural…

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Andy on December 12th, 2008

I just finished watching the excellent extended interview by Richard Dawkins of Derren Brown, the self-professed skeptic and psychological illusionist (watch it here) and he made several very good points at the end of the interview when he was explaining…

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Andy on October 16th, 2008

I spent an hour or so today over at the excellent blog Berto: Philosophy Monkey viewing the various videos there - if you visit be sure to view the (40 minutes, but worth it) Pale Blue Dot Episode 1: Wanderers. I…

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Andy on October 9th, 2008

Intelligent Design LOLIn my the first part of this series of articles about Intelligent Design I discussed one of the falsehoods that proponents of this ‘theory’ use to bolster their wacky ideas - namely, that evolution was invented by atheists. In this, the…

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Andy on June 23rd, 2008

Intelligent Design LOLBit strong? Nope - they are and they actually know it, but presumably they are able to justify this on the grounds that it is for a ‘higher good’ or similar reason.

Let’s go over some of the commonly used ‘proofs’…

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