Humans predisposed to God and afterlife, conclude Oxford researchers, according to an article in ScienceDaily 14 July 2011. An international team of researchers led by two Oxford University academics has carried out a number of studies of religious beliefs in 20 different countries, involving many cultures and religions. The project was named “The Cognition, Religion […]
Tag: atheism
Hawking: God Not Needed
British physicist Prof. Stephen Hawking claims God was not needed to create the Universe! More details of Hawking’s claim that the law of gravity was all that was needed to do the big bang, and gravity alone could make a universe from nothing was reported in the Telegraph Editorial Comment: You need to remember we […]
Tennessee Anti-Evolution Bill
“Tennessee passes anti-evolution bill” claims American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Policy Alert, 13 April 2011 and Science, vol. 332 p295 15 April 2011. The House of Representatives in the US state of Tennessee has voted in a law enabling teachers to address scientific controversies, including but not limited to “biological evolution, the […]
God Not in Charge
“God is not in charge, we are” says test tube baby pioneer, Robert Edwards, according to a report in T2 Supplement, The Times, 24 July 2003, p.6. In an interview with Anjana Ahuja of the The Times (London, UK) Edwards explained his motive for fighting the Establishment 25 years ago to develop in vitro fertilisation. […]
An Idiotic Eye
An Idiotic Eye: Richard Dawkins asserts the vertebrate eye is particularly badly designed. He first condemns the eye for only having clear vision in the fovea (the central region of the total visual field for each eye), and therefore we need to constantly move the eyes and use image processing software in the brain to […]