1. The age of endarkenment

Comment #64790 by tinneduir on August 21, 2007 at 10:17 pm

Until a few years ago, I worked with the Probation Service's Education & Training Section. Along with Citizenship, we ran sessions in Critical Thinking. The general population may be short of the nous to see what's what, but we have some of the most rational criminals in the world!

2. Richard Dawkins and the New Age fakers

Comment #64785 by tinneduir on August 21, 2007 at 9:18 pm

paulcaira is right. The furthest naked eye object is the Andromeda galaxy (about) 2 million ly distant. I noticed that bit of sloppiness, too. Whatever the intention might have been, the distinct impression was that some of the stars we see in the night sky were at a distance of 60-65 million ly. We've really got to get things like this right first time, or suffer derision from anyone who doesn't like what we are really saying.