Category: Scepticism

  • Some questions for Atheists

    Question 1: How old were you when you decided that you weren’t going to believe in what you don’t understand? If you had attempted to explain heavier than air flying, or radio communication to someone in the 12th century you would undoubtably be met with disbelief, and your attempts at an explanation would probably just…

  • Scientific impartiality

    There is a view which is expounded, predominantly by Atheists, that science is objective and impartial. I was told by a member of a skeptics association that peer review guaranteed that science was impartial. Apparently Richard Feynman said that Philosophy of science is as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. Of course the difference is…

  • Science and Religion

    We are often told that science and religion are mutually incompatible. The reasoning goes that religion is based on faith and science is based on facts and experimentation. I’ve even heard it said that religious people should not be employed in scientific establishments because scientists endeavour to find the truth, whereas religious people simply attribute…

  • The Girl with the X-Ray Eyes

    A TV documentary from the Discovery Channel examined the case of a girl in Russia, Natasha Demkina, who claimed to treat people by seeing into them. (She says she can “look deep inside people’s bodies, watch their organs at work and spot when things are going wrong”). Natasha volunteered to be examined by CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation…

  • Why do Bad things Happen? (2)

    In this series of articles I’m looking at the Atheists’ question ‘Why do bad things happen to good people’ or ‘If God is all good then how is it that He lets bad things happen’ or so on. The question takes many forms but in the end they boil down to one question: How can…

  • Why do Bad things Happen? (1)

    The Atheists’ question ‘Why do bad things happen to good people’ or ‘If God is all good then how is it that He lets bad things happen’ has been answered many times and in this series of articles I will go through the many answers to this question. The common answer that religious people give…

  • The god of the Atheist

    To say that Atheists have a god sounds like an oxymoron. After all, Atheists claim that they don’t believe in any gods. In fact, it’s used as an argument to support the idea that science and religion are incompatible. If someone was to say that things fall down because of the will of god, this…

  • Proof of Evolution

    Evolution is a fact. We are told this so much that if you even ask a question about how evolution works you are likely to be accused of being a creationist or of doubting science. There is undoubtably evolution of one kind or another taking place all the time in the world but when people…

  • Seeing colour in a colourless world

    Imagine if you will, a world where all but a few people are colour blind. A small percentage, say 2–3% can see normal colours and a further few percentage have limited colour vision, for instance they may be red-green colour blind or see only washed-out colours. What would such a world be like? Well, we…

  • Extraordinary Claims Demand Extraordinary Proof

    Atheists and skeptics frequently write articles from the standpoint that their view is ‘rational’ and ‘logical’ and that religious or ‘New Age’ views are irrational and based on incorrect assumptions. This view is fallacious and in these writings I explain that atheism is simply another belief system with as many (if not more) irrational assumptions…