Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 9/11 conspiracy, acupuncture, aliens, Belief, belief without evidence, believe, card reading, catholic church, Centre for Inquiry, Christian, claims of authority, common defences, Darwin, deduction, discussion, dowsing rods, empowerment, enlightenment, explanations, faith healers, fear, Ghost, ghosts, god, habit, homeopathic medicine, horoscopes, human rights, irrational, James Randi Foundation, knowledge, laws of nature, Logic, luck, metaphysical, metaphysical feelings, method, methods, personal feelings, possibility of it being true, Random, Rational, Reiki, Religion, rights, Science, science vs religion, societies, society, speak to the dead, Superstition, superstitions, theology, truth, UFO, ufo hunters, unchallenged, Understanding, unquestioning positions, western culture on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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These three phenomena cover a wide array of activities and beliefs but share the same broad sense that they break away from what could be considered to be ‘natural’ and move towards trying to produce or support events that cannot be explained unless there is an [...]
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Posted in Religion, Science, Superstition, tagged Belief, believe, card reading, Catholic, catholic church, child, children, Christian, church, creationists, discussion, empowerment, enlightenment, explainable, faith healers, family, fear, feedback, god, habit, homeopathic medicine, horoscopes, human rights, Introduction, islam, Jew, Jewish, knowledge, Logic, luck, metaphysical, metaphysical feelings, method, methods, Michael Shermer, multi-cultural societies, Muslim, personal feelings, Random, Rational, Reiki, Religion, Richard Dawkins, rights, Science, science is wrong, science vs religion, societies, society, speak to the dead, Superstition, theology, truth, Understanding on June 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There is an old Irish saying, religion is the superstition of fools and I cannot help but think that should be religion is the religion of fools! I will give religion one point though, not that I’m actually keeping a record of points awarded or anything, at least for the most part it is perhaps [...]
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Posted in Religion, tagged agenda, apostates of Islam, atheism, Atheists, attitude, Belief, believe, Catholic, children, Christian, Christopher Hitchens, church, death of religion, empowering, enlightenment, faith, god, history, human right, islam, Jew, Jewish, Julia Sweeney, Matthew Chapman, mother Teresa, multi-cultural societies, Muslim, opinion, Pascal’s Wager, Pat Condell, Rational, reason, Religion, rights, Social Justice, societies, society, Steven Pinker, tolerance, Understanding, women on June 4, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I have said this before, it is actually pointless to argue with religious people about how their religion is wrong since this will never really convince them into change and you will put all that energy in only achieving a complete waste of your time. So this post is not addressed to those religious people [...]
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Posted in Logic, Science, tagged agenda, attitude, Ayer, body of knowledge, Carnap, comte, contradiction, enlightenment, eugenics, Europe, experiment, experimental, faith, history, history of science, human, improvements, induction, industrial revolution, knowledge, method, methods, misconceptions, model, nation states, Opticks, Religion, Science, science is wrong, society, Understanding, Vienna, world on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One thing that amazes me is that science tends to work quite often; I don’t need to tell you that you already know. The point here is that it tends to work, still there are places where the misunderstanding of science comes in, these are my thoughts on how science sometimes is not based upon [...]
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