by Carl Howard | Sep 8, 2008 | Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Ethics, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
You’re driving 6km over the limit, get pulled over and receive a ticket for $2,500,000,000,000. You go to court. “I plead guilty, but what’s with the typo?” “Typo?” asks the judge. “It says I’ve been fined $2.5 trillion.” “You have.” You start swearing & are...
by Carl Howard | Sep 5, 2008 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Society
I’ve had a quick swipe at pacifism so I’d like to discuss it more. I think the concept of pacifism (including pacifist religion) is harmful. Let’s quickly look at 2 pacifist religions: Jainism A minority religion in India (4.2 million) followers. They believe in the...
by Carl Howard | Sep 2, 2008 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Society
Great quote: “People are always amazed by how much free time I have. They’re also amazed that I don’t know who Ally McBeal is. Frankly, I’m amazed that they can’t make the connection (Robert Wenzlaff).” There’s a parallel with Eastern religions: it’s funny how...
by Carl Howard | Aug 24, 2008 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
Since evolution is taught badly in schools (and few go on to learn it at uni), we have misconceptions. One is that evolution is “for the good of the species”, with each species becoming refined as a whole. Not true: evolution doesn’t necessarily cause a whole species...
by Carl Howard | Aug 12, 2008 | Atheism and Religion, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Science and Skepticism
Heard a very good point on a Mindcore episode: Biblical literalists require a stronger belief in evolution than the most “radical atheist scientist”. If Noah’s ark had only 1 pair of each kind, the speed of evolution required to get some of the variation that exists...
by Carl Howard | Jul 29, 2008 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
Not bisexuals who are agnostic; the agnosticism (or rather denialism) about the existence of bisexuals. I’m constantly amazed people still deny this. To me it’s not different to denialism of Copernicanism, evolution, global warming, relativity, AIDS etc. Except unlike...
