Not only is this the title for a rather entertaining yarn by Mike Resnick it is a direct reference to one of the CampQuest’s activities, well at least as part of the UK’s camp experience…
The idea is that the leaders talk about unicorns that live in the nearby forest and there’s a prize to be [...]
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Stalking the Unicorn
Posted in Provoked by Pulp, atheism, dogma, faith, outlook, philosophy on Sunday, 6 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Never meet your heroes or How did Bakunin feel when he met Marx?
Posted in atheism, dogma, faith, outlook, religion on Thursday, 30 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently went to a Mark Thomas gig.
And to be unfair – here’s the email I sent off today
Dear Mark Thomas or whoever gets to check this mail box…
I must say that I enjoyed, laughed and applauded during your stand-up routine. I even signed a petition and got a couple of badges for the wife.
Perhaps [...]
Dawkins and Freedom of Thought
Posted in atheism, dogma, faith, history, outlook, philosophy, religion, science on Tuesday, 19 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No doubt when I’ve re-watched all three episodes together of the ‘The Genius of Charles Darwin‘ I’ll write a ‘Whackos’ post about them as a whole but for this piece I’ll try to keep to The Final Installment of Dawkins propaganda… And make no mistake – that’s what it is. Either he doesn’t have enough [...]
The Blind Atheist
Posted in atheism, dogma, faith, philosophy, politics, science on Tuesday, 12 August, 2008 | 8 Comments »
As I watched ‘The Genius of Charles Darwin‘ last night I could not but think that it was a rather revealing quest about Richard Dawkins as he started the programme with ‘Why should I love my brother?’ and from then on the programme was about him.
One of the problems with Dawkins is that he is [...]
Belief, evidence, proof and rationality…
Posted in atheism, dogma, faith, outlook, philosophy, science on Monday, 11 August, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As Dawkins the atheist that never sleeps is back on the ‘idiot lantern’ as my father-in-law calls the glowing box in the corner, I thought I’d try to clear up some ideas.
To believe something seems quite obvious to begin with but is rather fundamental to how we view the world. For example if we have [...]
In defense of Creationists…
Posted in atheism, dogma, faith, history, outlook, philosophy, religion on Friday, 8 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This may seem like a vain attempt at defending the indefensible – and depending on what is assumed it is.
Before I get into this I want to decouple some issues – which will no doubt be returned to.
Evolution does not mean ‘God’ or any other ‘Higher being/s’ do not exist. Evolution provides a description of [...]
10 by the power of 40 to 1 against
Posted in atheism, dogma, faith, outlook, philosophy on Tuesday, 5 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
are the odds against life occurring anywhere by chance as given by Richard Dawkins in ‘The Blind Watchmaker’… [here - search for 'odds of life']
He then goes on a rather torturous account of how, in the end, it is an almost near certainty that life would happen somewhere. Including some rather terrible thinking – including [...]
And the Gobble-uns’ll git you ef you Don’t Watch Out!
Posted in Provoked by Celluloid, atheism, dogma, religion on Friday, 14 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
James Whitcomb Riley, ‘Little Orphant Annie’ 1885
I came upon the above quote as I was reading ‘Mr Baggins’ part one of ‘The History of The Hobbit’ by John D, Rateliff – the reason this struck me was that I have recently viewed ‘The Golden Compass’ the Hollywood depiction of, well, most of Philip Pullman’s first [...]
