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, [...]
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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 »
Fiddling while Rome burns
Posted in Media, politics, tagged history, media, Syria, television on February 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
It’s one of those “what-ifs” of history. You know – what if the Japanese in World War 2 had modern fighter planes, what if the Romans had tanks, what if the Spanish Armada was composed of steamships. But another version involves communications. What if the internet, mobile phones, twitter and email, digital still and video [...]
Ignorance is strength
Posted in Education, Media, politics, tagged australia, australian election, Climate Change, conservation, creationism, education, elections, george orwell, history, media, public schools, religion, science, television on January 30, 2012 | 21 Comments »
How can every human being on the planet not spend their days being puzzled about pretty much everything? Every day I ask myself questions like: How does that work? Why did that happen? Who was responsible for that? What was the purpose of that? Where did that come from? Constantly, one or more of the [...]
Extraordinary
Posted in Atheism, Climate Change, Media, politics, tagged alpine environment, America, Atheism, australia, carl sagan, Climate Change, creationism, environment, faster than light, guns, health, libertarian, media, religion, think tanks on January 19, 2012 | 30 Comments »
When I put in a complaint the other day regarding an extraordinarily biased tv report about cattle in national parks a twitter follower asked if I would have complained if the bias had been the other way. Made me consider the question for a moment. The answer of course is “no”, but why? Remember Carl [...]
Boo
Posted in Media, politics, tagged australia, immigration, iraq, julia gillard, media, refugees, tony abbott on December 29, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Every day commercial tv finds new ways to scare its viewers – bacteria in kitchens, exploding tables (yes, really), food poisoning, internet fraud, faulty electrical wiring, incurable diseases, end of world “prophecies” (yes, really), and so on and on and on. The reasons are simple, a belief that many readers will think “thank goodness that [...]
Fit to print
Posted in Media, politics, tagged australia, Climate Change, education, elections, media, media inquiry, newspapers, press council, television on November 13, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Much talk about the Australian media inquiry lately, and the inquiry into Murdoch’s activities in Britain. Calls for regulation on the one hand, outraged reaction about government control of a free press on the other. Fairfax Media chairman Roger Corbett said limits on media would be a ‘terrible mistake’. The Right emerged blinking from Think [...]
Miracle climate cure!
Posted in Climate Change, Media, tagged australia, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, ecology, environment, global warming, media, science on October 21, 2011 | 25 Comments »
A comparison between public perception (and I use the term loosely) of climate science and other sciences has been made in various ways from time to time, but is worth making again. You are sitting in on a case management conference in the oncology area of a hospital, with all the specialists, nurses, medical technicians [...]
That’s Entertainment
Posted in Media, politics, tagged America, australian election, Brendan Nelson, elections, federal election, julia gillard, kevin rudd, malcolm turnbull, media, television, tony abbott on October 16, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Long long ago, as the oldest of my Watermelon friends may just remember, there used to be talent competitions in community and media. At Eisteddfords performers performed, judges judged, winners grinned, losers were praised and encouraged, audiences applauded loudly in appreciation. Then the geniuses who produce tv programs decided this was all wrong. In the [...]
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