Month: June 2012

Twenty Questions – Forking strawman

Forking a strawman argument

A rather odd claim comes from a doctor, Peter Saunders, that in the past 40 years he hasn’t heard any good answers to certain questions that he has asked of Atheists. This is an odd claim because atheism is to…

Monarch as an Anarchy

I have consistently promoted our British monarchy but at the same time I say to people that I subscribe towards an anarchist view when I look at state systems. They don’t understand how these two can be reconciled so I…

The Conflict of Interests

On Foot

Jimmy Wales was at the recent Pontifical Academy of Sciences meeting held at the Vatican towards the end of April in 2012 and he was quoted by the Catholic News Service as praising the Pope John XXIII’s encyclical “Pacem in…