skepticab.blogspot.com
Skepticab: March 2016
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The musings of a skeptical minicab driver in Harlow, Essex, England. This blog captures my thoughts on situations that arise as I ferry people from one place to another. Wednesday, 30 March 2016. Blog of randomness to Friday 25 March 2016. A trip to Sheffield with my boys for a visit to Hillsborough and my mum. We're not superstitious in any way but obviously none of us can wear any red. The Wednesday FC might lose if we do. The strategy worked. Early Harlow New Town Residents. First thing in the morning...
wycombe.skepticsinthepub.org
Past Events
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How Neurononsense joined Psychobabble to Keep Women in Their Place. Wednesday, October 19 2016 at 8:00PM. Eg import to Outlook or Google Calendar). The Old St John's Church. What's the talk about? This talk aims to offer ways of rooting out the neurotrash, stamping out the neurosexism and making way for neuronews. She also writes and speaks on the use of neuroimaging techniques In the study of sex/gender differences, recently featured in the BBC Horizon programme “Is your Brain Male or Female? You are we...
portsmouth.skepticsinthepub.org
Links
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Café Scientifique Portsmouth: www.facebook.com/groups/109261511552/. Hampshire Skeptics: www.hampshireskeptics.org. Skepticule – aka the Three Pauls Podcast - www.skepticule.co.uk. Co-hosted by Portsmouth Skeptics organiser Paul S. Jenkins and featuring a philosophical slot with regular speaker Johno Pearce. The Skeptics Guide to the Universe - www.theskepticsguide.org. Weekly science podcast produced by the New England Skeptical Society. Also provides blogs, forums, videos and resources.
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Audio archive
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Many of our talks have been recorded, and you'll find links to them below. The recordings were made by Paul S. Jenkins, who hosts them on his Skepticule. Jonathan M. S. Pearce. The Impossibility of Scientific Truth. The Sharks Don't Get Cancer Myth. An Optimist's Tour of the Future. Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines. The Philosophy of the Mind. Dark Energy and Dark Matter. The Scientific Method: Uses and Abuses. Are we discovering new antibiotics quickly enough? Thursday, September 8 at 7:30PM.
evilburnee.co.uk
Notes from an Evil Burnee: Dembski & Licona's Evidence for God
http://www.evilburnee.co.uk/p/dembski-liconas-evidence-for-god.html
Notes from an Evil Burnee. Because I'll surely roast in Hell. Dembski and Licona's Evidence for God. This is an ongoing project to read and critique a recommended book, Evidence for God. Edited by William Dembski. What follows on this page is merely a list of posts dealing with each chapter, beginning with my introduction to the project. Evidence for God: 50 Arguments and a challenge. God, contingency and special pleading — the cosmological argument. Moral argument fails to impress. S Evidence for God.
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Notes from an Evil Burnee: Burnee Fridayee linkee
http://www.evilburnee.co.uk/2015/02/burnee-fridayee-linkee.html
Notes from an Evil Burnee. Because I'll surely roast in Hell. Friday, 27 February 2015. Dino poop and the age of the Earth Eat Your Brains Out; Exploring Science, Exposing Creationism. Creationism in America, ha ha ha! Wouldn't happen in this country, would it? Listening to The Audacity to Podcast special on the ethics of podcasting. Fascinating stuff (and especially relevant to Skepticule as the host quotes Bible verses but is nevertheless pursuing a consequentialist ethic). The inevitability of life.
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Notes from an Evil Burnee: "Humanism" up for grabs?
http://www.evilburnee.co.uk/2015/06/humanism-up-for-grabs_4.html
Notes from an Evil Burnee. Because I'll surely roast in Hell. Thursday, 4 June 2015. Humanism" up for grabs? Catching up on my podcast-listening backlog I came upon this episode. Of BBC Radio 4. Hosted by Ernie Rae. It features Stephen Law. And a separate interview with Rory Fenton. The first half is amicable enough, but considerable disagreement surfaces as the programme proceeds. This isn't surprising, given that Nick Spencer co-wrote a Theos. Paper entitled " The Case for Christian Humanism. Joining E...
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Notes from an Evil Burnee: QED 2012 media links
http://www.evilburnee.co.uk/p/qed-2012-media-links.html
Notes from an Evil Burnee. Because I'll surely roast in Hell. QED 2012 media links. Was a two-day science and skepticism conference that took place in the Piccadilly Hotel, Manchester on the 10th-11th March 2012. This page contains links to relevant blogposts, videos, photos, images, etc., that various people have made available online. If yours isn't listed, put a link in the comments to the explanatory blogpost. And I will add it to the list. Gwendes: #QEDCon 2012 ramblings! We’ve won an award! Critica...
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Notes from an Evil Burnee: Arguments for Fred*
http://www.evilburnee.co.uk/p/arguments-for-fred.html
Notes from an Evil Burnee. Because I'll surely roast in Hell. Before I embarked on a chapter-by-chapter critique of Dembski and Licona's Evidence for God. I began a series of refutations of some of the popular arguments for the existence of God. It's obviously not exhaustive, and I've had further thoughts on some of them since, but here are links to all seven of my original posts. AfF #1: Why is there something rather than nothing? AfF #2: Cosmological Argument. AfF #3: Teleological Argument. This feed c...