Craig Lowndes has just won the bathurst 1000. Normally, I don't watch the race; I got turned off by the overenthusiasm of the fans and their terrible treatment of anyone who shose to drive something other than a Ford or Holden.  I used to hope Alan Moffat would manage to win in his RX-7 ( Read more... )

I've been reading an interesting thread on JREF about skepticism and the nature of provability.

A poster using the handle "Piggy" has been claiming that it is possible to prove impossibility of claims using various tools that lie outside a strict logical/scientific framework.

The discussion is quite long, and it I'm far from finishing it, but ( Read more... )

Did a Historical Jesus Exist?
Did Jesus Exist?I've just been accepting all my life that at least some of the New Testament was historically accurate. It seems quite likely that there is far less than I thought. Other than places and institutions, and the important personages of the time (apart from Jesus and his pals), it seems quite likely that it ( Read more... )

Yoiu can tell this quiz was written by someone who falls into the "Judaism/Christianity section in two ways:

• It is the box at the top left
• Some of the questions assume Christian thinking and/or misrepresent other positions.

As an example of the second, I give you the question "Do you believe that eventually, science will be able to explain ( Read more... )

A warning for the world.

I just recently picked up a few of Dawkins' books, and I look forward to reading them. I've heard so many good reports of The Blind Watchmaker that I had to get it.

Oh and here is The Official God F.A.Q. Quite comprehensive, I think.

No, they aren't drooling satanists. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to tell which was a pope and which an antipope at the time.

You'd think the Catholic church, that bastion of the Latin language, would treat latin prefixes with a little more respect ( Read more... )