Morality and God
The concept of ethics and morality being equated with a god is not unfamiliar and it actually ties in very well with some thoughts on the origin of gods, rather than the origin of ethics and morality....
View ArticleScience comment and creationist trolls
Every article that touches upon my fields of interest (biology and palaeontology) seems to be followed by an irritating and distracting cloud of creationist comments, akin to the swarms of biting flies...
View ArticleCreationist rules of engagement
It appears that my post on Creationist trolls was quite prophetic. Not only was my derision of journalistic missing-linkism validated days later by the over-hyped reporting of the Darwinius masillae...
View ArticleThoughts on humanism
I thought I’d write a piece on humanism because it seems to have a lot of confusion surrounding it. Some view it as a religion or cult, others see it as an organised anti-religious sect of militant...
View ArticleFailings of ‘parental intuition’
I am concerned by all the irresponsible, selfish and stupid parents of the world. The ones that upon reading this would be moved to comment along the lines of “you’re not a parent, so you don’t know...
View ArticleFriday mystery object #19 answer
On Friday I presented you with this delightful looking creature’s skull: and asked you what it was. SmallCasserole and Jim vied to reach the correct answer, with the physicist narrowly beating the...
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