When the bible was written humans* didn’t know: About bacteria and viruses and parasites Blood circulation Earth going around sun More than 5 planets About galaxies There was a southern hemisphere Earth round What lightning is That whales aren’t fish What mental illness involves About genes and inheritance About Chinese, Aztecs, Zulus, Aborigines, Navaho, Japanese, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Evolution’
To be hanged with the bible
Posted in Atheism, politics, tagged Climate Change, science, religion, Evolution, health, Atheism, tony abbott, australia, media, richard dawkins, law, steve fielding, creationism, history, America on February 12, 2012 | 53 Comments »
Kissing Cousins
Posted in Evolution, tagged creationism, Evolution, history, richard dawkins, science on January 23, 2012 | 7 Comments »
[Note this was written to follow on from discussions which began in comments on post "When you wish" below and continued into those of "Extraordinary". One of my most regular commenters on this blog, Eric, is trying to understand evolution. I, we, are trying to help him. This post arose from Eric's comment that "I [...]
When you wish
Posted in Climate Change, tagged australia, Climate Change, creationism, Evolution, galaxies, goldilocks zone, habitable planet, intelligent beings, religion, science, UFO on January 18, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Once upon a time the question about life elsewhere in the universe was complicated by lack of basic information. From the time we knew that we lived in a galaxy and there were 400 billion stars in our galaxy, and that there were 200 billion other galaxies (so that’s, um, 80,000 billion billion stars as [...]
Sure and certain knowledge
Posted in Atheism, Climate Change, Environment, Evolution, tagged Atheism, atheist, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, creationism, ecology, environment, Evolution, global warming, religion, science on October 10, 2011 | 12 Comments »
It’s an odd little misunderstanding, just a minor difference in the way of looking at the world, but it has played a disproportionately huge part in making seven billion people content to allow a few energy companies turn off the world’s support systems and let them all die. So, what is it, this misunderstanding that [...]
Strange bedfellows
Posted in Atheism, Climate Change, tagged America, Atheism, australia, Climate Change, creationism, Evolution, global warming, religion, science on June 21, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Well, yesterday’s post went down like an iron (not as fast as lead but fast enough) balloon. Oh, Horton on about politics eh, been there, done that, boring. Very demanding lot you Watermelon visitors, thrill seekers of the blogosphere, one day mentally bunji jumping, the next the intellectual equivalent of rowing the Pacific. Always seeking [...]
Peter Principle
Posted in Atheism, tagged Atheism, australia, Climate Change, creationism, environment, Evolution, global warming, religion, richard dawkins, science, steve fielding, tony abbott on April 30, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This post was inspired by this latest piece of offensive nonsense from Australia’s Pope-in-waiting, the awe-full Cardinal P-ll. It compares the pathways to the top of their professions followed by scientists and religious leaders. To get promotion Religious leaders – on the way up show absolute willingness to obey, follow, believe, totally accept authority. Are [...]
The evolution of chocolate
Posted in Evolution, Media, tagged America, australia, charles darwin, creationism, education, Evolution, media, religion, richard dawkins, science on March 31, 2011 | 4 Comments »
There used to be, and still may be, a computer facility that allows you to program particular function keys on the keyboard to produce a whole phrase with one keystroke. Particularly useful for politicians (“there is only one poll that matters”, “I can’t comment on this because it is now the subject of legal proceedings”, [...]
Life is a lottery
Posted in Atheism, Climate Change, Education, Evolution, Media, politics, tagged Atheism, australia, Climate Change, creationism, education, environment, Evolution, global warming, media, religion, science, television on March 8, 2011 | 7 Comments »
There is a media ritual when there is a big lottery prize looming that involves an interview with a “number expert” who can tell you what the “lucky” numbers are, ie those which have come up most often. The number expert can protest until blue in the face that every number, every time, is equally [...]
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