With the gasping number of reported HIV/AIDS infections around the world, President George W. Bush has asked the US Congress to set aside $30bn over five years for the global fight against HIV/Aids – twice the amount allotted in 2003.
Although it’s commendable that in his final year in office, President Bush’s “swan song” would include […]
By now, we’ve all heard of cases where religion has tried to insert its alternative, often deleterious, truths into science classrooms and textbooks in the US. If this hasn’t confused students about the facts, it certainly has presented a perplexing message about how to uncover truths. On the side of evolution, we find an appeal […]
A comment appeared in one of my stories which deserves some attention, and I would like to take the opportunity not only to make my position clearer on the matter, but also to address many of the points brought up in his arguments. I thought it would be a good opportunity to discuss what my […]
Tensions are running high between the Islamic world and the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI. In order to avoid further alienation, and to improve relations between the two faiths, the Pope has re-instated the Vatican’s Islam department, according to BBCNEWS.com. The move means that everyone can breathe a sigh of relief, […]
Last week I wrote an article featuring the completion of the Creation Museum in Petersberg Kentucky, which is opening today. However, there is another museum, in Roswell, New Mexico that ranks perhaps as the second most credulous institution in America, and a recent article on CBC.ca prompted me to write a little bit about it.
As […]
Debating God is tough work. For starters, in most circumstances, the audience is not on your side. Agnostics and Atheists are the minority in a country where the population describes itself as either religious or very religious. Secondly, anyone debating against the existence of God seems to have the difficult task of trying to disprove […]