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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Counting out his money
Posted in Economics, Media, politics, tagged australia, banking, banks, business regulation, Carbon Tax, ceo salaries, economy, free marketeer, history, law, monarchy, regulation, religion, think tanks on January 7, 2012 | 9 Comments »
What slogan is above the door of the free marketeer’s think tanks? No, it’s not “Abandon hope all ye who enter here”, you naughty people. It’s “Government small enough to drown in a bathtub”. These people believe that “government” should leave banks and financial institutions alone, get rid of regulation, has no business in business, [...]
World turned upside down
Posted in politics, tagged australia, Climate Change, global warming, history, religion, science on December 31, 2011 | 6 Comments »
When I was young, a year or two ago, the world seemed a somewhat predictable place. You knew, each New Year’s Eve, what you would be doing, as school year followed predictable school year. You knew what family would be doing, as they lived daily lives, worked at long-term jobs. The country seemed predictable, Robert [...]
Lipstick red
Posted in Atheism, tagged Atheism, australia, feminism, health, history, misogyny, religion on December 4, 2011 | 8 Comments »
The other day the Australian government rejected a scheme for food labelling which had been proposed by its own review committee. Instead of all the fine print and misleading concentrations and secret coded additives there was meant to be a “traffic light” system of red amber green signs on labels. Red would be high concentrations [...]
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 [...]
Let us all rejoice, rejoice
Posted in Atheism, tagged America, Atheism, creationism, education, religion, tony abbott on September 27, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Did you see that some Christian school in Australia had rewritten the second verse of the national anthem to include a whole lot of stuff about some god or other? Look I know national anthems are crap. “our home is girt by sea”? Sounds like something Monty Python might write. And grown up people singing [...]
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