Updated African science and skepticism blogroll
A list of African blogs that focus on science and skeptical issues. If you’re looking for content that is free of woo and mysticism of other sorts, give these a try.
Religious education in South African schools
We can have little control over what children are taught in their homes, but ideology taught as objectivity has no place in public education. After all, schooling is meant to make one smarter, rather than to transmit the crippling notion that there is only one route to human flourishing.
Crazies gang up against god
It will rain when god is damn well good and ready for it to rain, regardless of the joint prayer efforts of Jews, Christians and Muslims in the West Bank.
A science of morality #1
As soon as there is any evidence – any evidence at all – the possibility exists for us to make better and worse predictions about the consequences of our actions. And we do have some evidence related to the sorts of things that allow for increases or decreases in the welfare of sentient creatures.
Moral absolutism: deontology and religious morality
Defining morality as necessarily absolute and objective is an illegitimate way to privilege religious morality, even as it continues to become less and less useful to people living in a modern world. Not only less useful, but also potentially harmful.
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