Wild honey
Recently I caught a BBC documentary about pig farmer Jimmy Doherty’s visit to Nepal to gather honey with the local people using traditional methods in a highly risky situation. As a ‘honey hunter’...
View ArticleTruth vs Comfort
While considering the beliefs of eccentrics like Garvan in his post “Right Not To Think“, yunshui recently questioned whether it would be morally right in every case to change the minds of those who...
View ArticleCryonics – Eternal Life or Wishful Thinking?
Cryonics is the preservation of living humans or animals by extreme cooling with the aim of restoring them to a normal animate state at a later date. It is commonly confused (by me, at least) with...
View ArticleWhat Does Atheism Offer That Belief In God Can’t?
It seems that atheism is puzzling to believers. Demian Farnworth recently interviewed Hemant Mehta and in the following comments asked him, What does atheism offer that belief in God can’t? I certainly...
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