The night skies above our cities and towns - even our villages - glow a bright sodium orange; the most brilliant stars our galaxy has to offer glow feebly through this colourful canopy.

Galloway Forest Park has recently been honoured with the status of the UK's first Dark Sky Park. Perhaps it is time for us to dim the lights on the skies above all our cities.

A debate between creationist Ray Comfort and YouTube personality thunderf00t. Comfort comes across a bit clueless at times, but I really like this conversational style of debate - it works much better on video than traditional moderated debates with an audience.

Martin posted a link to a debate here. The motion of the debate was "The Catholic church is a force for good in the world". In favour of the motion; Ann Widdecombe and Archbishop Onaiyekan. Against the motion; Christopher Hitchens and Steven Fry.

When you're up against Hitchens in a debate about religion, you can probably bet that he's going to be negative and robustly so. As such you would want to provide compelling evidence against him and in favour of your own stance. We shall see that, for Widdecombe and the Archbishop, this was not the case; they not only failed to rebut Hitchens and Fry, but they denied history, science and scripture along the way.