The Australian Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse released their recommendations this week - and it only took a few hours for church leaders to begin whining that they don't want to comply with the recommendations.
The "right" of the faiths to hire and fire people they don't like seems set to be the focus of the upcoming debate on Marriage Equality, assuming the Australian postal vote returns a "Yes" vote this week. Read More
Every year I notice normally sane scientists - astronomers whose work I otherwise admire - throw away the science with their attempts to justify the so-called Star of Bethlehem.Read More
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Above us only sky...
The glory of the 'heavens' above us are real, their starry splendour is visible to those who look up; but the glory of 'Heaven' is a sad delusion of human minds. This is the personal blog site of an atheist astronomer.
Wise words
"My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world."