The Toronto star carries an edited version of a Financial Times editorial on the threat of Creationism:TheStar.com – Creationism’s assault on science The article points out a valid analogy. There is overwhelming evidence that the Holocaust was real, yet a minority of ideologically driven historians still deny it. The consensus amongst historians as to the reality of the Holocaust is statistically equivalent to the consensus amongst scientists in support of evolution, yet a particular sect of militant protestant Christianity, which is popular in the US and Brazil is enforcing the irrational belief of the minority on the majority. Sure, it can be argued that it is part of the scientific process to encourage debate and look at alternate theories, but some theories are better than others. Suspicion should be aroused when theories are in fact hypotheses masking as theories and when those hypotheses are things that are driven not by…

A leader: who was not elected democratically, but by a group of unelected barons who was elected for life with no need for re-election of a country where : there is no separation of church and state, where the state is the church dies. And most politicians of modern democracies eulogise him, because the idolizing of this leader is such that many citizens of these modern democracies will do whatever this foreign, undemocratically elected leader says, despite the fact that idolitary is forbidden for the followers of this leader. Because people will naturally worship stars like the Pope and Britney Spears emotions may run wild when we criticise them, but exactly because the Pope was a leader, and particularly because he wasn’t democratically elected then his actions should not be above scrutiny or criticism . The late pope was objectively damn good at what he did, but despite the images…

I have nothing against the notion of pro-life, I am an atheist liberal who is pro-choice, who admired Mother Theresa. Mother Theresa practiced what she preached. She said that she would personally look after any child brought to her that would have been aborted. I would not ask everyone who is anti-abortion to become Mother Theresa, however I would say that they are immoral if they do not also support raised taxes and a larger welfare budget. You cannot be a Republican and pro-life. Sadly, issues promoted by most pro-lifers cause more people to die. Pro-life means ‘erring on the side of life’, unless it means killing people guilty of pre-meditated killing – by means of pre-meditated killing. Pro-life means no abortion, but it does not mean raising taxes and providing welfare to keep abandoned or neglected children alive. Pro-life means spending money to keep people alive using a feeding…