Young Australian Skeptics

Cross-​​​​posted from Divisible By Pi Today began as most days do. Wake up, have a shower, brush my teeth, feed the goat that has taken up residence in my dishwasher, and then head off to uni. On my way home from uni, however, things got interesting. Some of you may remember a while back Ray Comfort wrote […]

… no wait! That’s Richard Hughes and Jack Scanlan from The Pseudo Scientists podcast, and regular contributors to the Young Australian Skeptics blog. They attended the University of Melbourne Secular Society’s recent “Flying Spaghetti Monster Mixer” (come dressed as your favourite deity or religious figure).

Those of you who have been reading YAS for a while now may remember that back in July of last year I started writing a chapter by chapter review of Ray Comfort’s excrementally bad book You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence But You Can’t Make Him Think. For those who haven’t been around that long, […]

Something tells me that Ray Comfort’s latest effort to dumb down the population isn’t working quite as well as he’d like it to just yet. Take a look at this screenshot I took nary a few moments ago, and see if you can pick that something’s a bit odd…

If you’re new to this series, you may want to check out parts one, two, three and four. Unsurprisingly, this is part five. In the introduction to 20^th Anniversary Edition of Neuromancer, William Gibson discussed the curious ability for plot holes to spontaneously appear in science fiction literature due the inevitable and unpredictable changes in politics and […]

Part one, part two and part three…now here’s part four! “Physical death is the first down payment for the wages of sin. After death, there is hell to pay.” In true biblical fashion, Ray opens his third chapter with that quote without any reference or citation to let us know who it actually came from. (A […]

F*** bananas that’s a long chapter title. Part one of this write up is here, part two is here…welcome to part three! “A group of self-​​​​appointed art experts stood around a beautiful painting. They admired each brush stroke with its vibrant colors and sheer brilliance. The painting was utterly unique in style. It was a masterpiece. […]

I know I’ve been ragging on Ray Comfort a lot recently, but I really couldn’t let this one slide. In his latest blog post, Ray criticises the Smithsonian over their use of the word ‘probably’ in their evolution exhibit: “Imagine stepping into a plane that you believed was “probably” safe, or into an elevator that has […]