The book of nature

Galileo's famous metaphor of the "book of nature", which he used to
defend the work of scientists from religious authorities, can be
dangerous today, says Robert P Crease

Halting progress

AC Grayling, skrivar: "Protests outside parliament by religious groups tonight will represent an obscenity against human rights"

Samrøða við Simon Blackburn

Nigel Warburton tosar við filosoffin Simon Blackburn.

A dubious distinction

People are allowed to refuse medical treatment, yet doctors still cannot assist a patient's death. Peter Singer skrivar.

Jaja, so er aftur ein filmstuppi um heilamegi! James Hydrick paranormal claim put to the test by James Randi

Mind power teachings by an old Chinese master, or simple trickery?. You judge.

Stop all the clocks: Julian Baggini on the tyranny of time

The clock is ticking - 2006 is history and a new year has begun.Today we'll take stock, make resolutions and start planning the next 12 months. But why do we treat 1st January as such a milestone in our lives? After all, it's just another day, isn't it? The philosopher Julian Baggini explains the human obsession with the passage of time

Eksploderandi froskar - humbuk

Í apríl hoyrdu vit um eksplodernadi froskar. Nú vísir tað seg, at likkur (crows) sum eru orsøkin til at tær ekspoldera - tað verður Der Spiegel endurgivin fyri at siga.

100 things we didn't know last year

Each week, the Magazine chronicles interesting and sometimes
downright unexpected facts from the news, through its strand 10 things
we didn't know last week. Here, to round off the year, are some of the
best from the past 12 months.

No religion and an end to war: how thinkers see the future

People's fascination for religion and superstition will disappear
within a few decades as television and the internet make it easier to
get information, and scientists get closer to discovering a final
theory of everything, leading thinkers argue today.

Hvøjum skal eg takka?

Týski filosoffurin, Ernes Tugendhat, spyr um hvør skal hava okkara tøkk, tá tað er eyðsæð, at Gud ikki er til.

Guðsfatanir

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy viðgerð ymiskar gudsfatanir

Hóttur eftir lívinum

Fraklands mest seljandi heimspekingur, Michel Onfray, er hóttur eftir lívinum, eftir at hann hevur givið til kennar hansara áskoðanir um m.a. skipaða religión. Ein viðmerkjari hevur sagt, at hansara analysa av religiøsari fanatismu og fyri skili brúkar somu metodur sum fundamentalistarnir. Long grein í Toronto Star, eftir Brad Spurgeon.

Tíggju mytur um ateismu

Sam Harris skrivar í stuttum um tíggju mytur um ateismu.