My vote sorted!

No - I will attend the poll - even if it's just to spoil my vote!

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Trick or Treat?

Atheists in the Pulpit

In a new study co-authored by Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola and funded by Tufts University preachers open up on their non-belief

“I went to college thinking Adam and Eve were real people. And I can remember really wrestling with that when my Old Testament professor was pointing out the obvious myths and how they came to be. And I kind of joked at the time that I prayed my way all the way to atheism. Because in the early days, it was wrestling with God; praying to God.”
continue reading the  Fascinating report here - pdf

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Ireland to have referendum on blasphemy

Ahern, who was criticised for increasing the fine for blasphemy to €25,000 last year, said he never regarded the provision in the new Defamation Bill as anything more than a short-term solution. “There was a lot of nonsense about that blasphemy issue and people making me out to be a complete right-winger at the time,” he said. “There was an incredibly sophisticated campaign [against me], mainly on the internet. I was only doing my duty in relation to it, because clearly it is in the constitution. The attorney general said ‘there is this absolute, mandatory thing… it is an offence, punishable by law.” A final decision on a blasphemy referendum rests with the cabinet, but if Ahern remains justice minister after this month’s reshuffle, he is likely to propose that it be added to the autumn list. The government is already committed to referendums on children’s rights and establishing a permanent court of civil appeal.
Let's have another look..........

PZ Myers on Sunday Sequence

William Crawley has eventually broadcast the interview with PZ Myers recorded when he recently visited Ireland -
 listen to it here

Read PZ's blog

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If you are in Ireland watch this at your peril!

Visit the Blasphemy Exhibition in the Oonagh Young Gallery

The blasphemy exhibition in the Oonagh Young Gallery continues until Saturday 27 February, and is open from 12 to 6pm every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It’s a fascinating show, and well worth a visit.
Oonagh Young Gallery
1 James Joyce Street
Liberty Corner
Dublin 1

Devolution of drinking and justice!

"Voodoo Histories": When smart people believe dumb things

Salon spoke to Aaronovitch by phone about the Internet's role in spreading conspiracy theories, our new golden age of paranoia, and the dangers of believing Naomi Klein.
Read interview with David here

We are not alone!

The Northwest Freethought Coalition billboard ad now appearing on Lake City Way NE, north of downtown Seattle.


  This effort is part of a coordinated nationwide campaign that began last year. In December it included billboards in Baltimore, Houston and Tulsa. Each billboard is sponsored by a local, multi-organizational coalition of nontheistic (atheist and agnostic) groups.

MAKE CHURCH PAY FOR RATZI'S VISIT

I's reported that it will cost the taypayer £20m
The National Secular Society has a petition to make the nasty old bigot who opposes equality legislation, pay for his own trip.

PZ Myers Fri 5th lunchtime event

PZ Myers in Belfast - QUB

Neil Reid - Humani Chairman has managed to persuade P Z Myers to give a lecture this Friday evening


He's not often in Ireland and this will be a must attend event for many people - Creationists and Evolutionists!!


'Complexity and Creationism' Promoting evolutionary biology to non-specialists

Peter Froggatt centre (Room G06) QUB
6pm Friday 5th Feb 2010



PZ Myers

Professor of Biology, University of Minnesota Morris

American Humanist Association's 'Humanist of the Year 2009'

Science Blog http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

Opponent of Creationism and Intelligent Design