The Daily Telegraph reports today that one in three teachers recommend teaching creationism alongside evolution. Bonkers? I don’t think so. Nor did I think the resignation of Rev Professor Michael Reiss was to be applauded. In fact, it was a travesty: the Rev Professor merely suggested was that …
Ok. Time for a little guessing game. One of the following cartoons is from Nazi propogandist ‘newspaper’ Der Stuermer, published in February 1930. The other is from Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, the official newspaper of the Palestinian National Authority, and was published in October 2001. Both portray …
As of October 23rd 2008, there were around 110 million users of Facebook worldwide. But, according to one psychiatrist, up to ten per cent of them could have an addiction to the website. We know that Facebook is a breeding ground for counterknowledge – especially, …
How is it possible for a loving God to create a fiery hell for the eternal punishment of billions of souls? In The Jerome Conspiracy, this question becomes more than academic to Jonathon and Samantha Webber when they lose their atheist adult son in a tragic …
Graffiti on an Alpha Course billboard in Hammersmith, London ”There’s probably no God” will soon be emblazoned on buses throughout London, as The Atheist Bus Campaign, an £11,000 fundraising effort, has hit its target in just a few hours. The Campaign, organised by The British Humanist …
Dr Hans D. Baumann and his wife, Sigrid Dr. Hans D. Baumann, in his self-published (sorry, “author-funded”) 2008 book Hitler’s Fate: The Final Story, claims that Hitler did not die in a bunker in Berlin in 1945, but rather emerged from the Second World War …
Adnan Oktar Adnan Oktar, the Turkish Muslim creationist who runs the dynamic Harun Yahya propaganda machine, has succeeded in blocking his fellow countrymen from accessing the website of Turkey’s third largest-selling newspaper. As the Guardian reports: A court ruled that Turkish web users should be …
Here’s a lesson for any “debunking” website thinking about employing Google AdSense. We switched AdSense on this afternoon (you may have noticed it in the far right-hand column on the homepage), only to discover that Counterknowledge.com was now advertising Bio Protective Systems’ “Green 8″ Phone Harmonizer, …
Remember the claim by archaeologists working with the BBC’s Timewatch that Stonehenge was a prehistoric Lourdes? We said it sounded like counterknowledge and, sure enough, a much more distinguished team of archaeologists think so, too. This is from a report in the Daily Telegraph: Now …
We previously ran a photo accompanying this post which we believed depicted Prof. Shiraz Dossa. In fact it was another Shiraz Dossa, unconnected to St Francis Xavier University. We apologise to the latter Mr Dossa for this error. Winter term is starting at St Francis …