11th March 2010
1:00 am“Religious opinions need not be privileged simply because they bear the label of faith.”
Faisal al Yafai
10th March 2010
1:00 am“Saudi Arabia, while containing only 1% of the world's Muslim population, accounts for 90% of expenditures on Islamic religious education worldwide.”
Alex Mayer
9th March 2010
1:00 am“If something defies belief, a good starting position is not to believe it.”
Jamie Whyte
8th March 2010
1:00 am“Secularists have no objection to Roman Catholic homosexuals living celibate lives, their natural instincts held in abeyance by prayer and fasting according to the Church's teaching. But they object strongly to laws being passed by their parliaments which force secular gay men and women to live by those teachings.”
Emer O'Kelly
7th March 2010
1:00 am“If the universe is less than 10,000 years old, then: all of geology and biology are wrong; the speed of light has been wrongly calculated, so Einsteinian physics is wrong; the distance and speed of other galaxies has been wrongly calculated, meaning that all of astronomy and therefore Newtonian physics are also wrong. For informed people to challenge accepted scientific orthodoxy on the basis of proper evidence is always healthy, but to debunk the whole of science on the back of a story passed down by some Iron Age goat-herders is just self-delusion.”
Neil Butcher