Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Skepticule-111-20160216


Skepticule 111: Psychic Fair; Darwin Day Lecture; Anticipatory Socialisation; Old Atheism; Believing Nonsense; TTPMO: TfL.

Shownotes:


Paul T talks about his visit to a Psychic Fair with High Wycombe Skeptics in the Pub. Adventures with the Fairy Whisperer in La La Land.

Paul J and Paul T went to the Darwin Day Lecture 2016 - 'Evolution and atheism: best friends forever?' by Jerry Coyne.

Was the CofE being sincere when they prayed for Richard Dawkins?

Anonymous Steve asks us about Anticipatory Socialisation. How do we prepare for upcoming extreme situations?

Old Atheism... Very Old Atheism... No I mean Seriously Old Atheism.

Johno asks us why people believe in nonsense like Noah's Flood.

TTPMO (Things that piss me off) Paul T is pissed off with Transport for London.

Bloopers.

The Telegraph - In the beginning... was atheism.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/12157896/In-the-beginning...-was-atheism.html

Prof Whitmarsh, Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge
http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-tim-whitmarsh


Editing & shownotes: Paul Thompson

Paul Thompson ("Sinbad")
The Skeptical Probe
http://skepticalprobe.blogspot.com/

Paul Orton, militant agnostic
Skepticab
http://skepticab.blogspot.co.uk/

Paul S. Jenkins
Notes from an Evil Burnee
http://www.evilburnee.co.uk

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