Oct
23
2020
The Great Diminishers (1) Locke.
Scientists, and indeed all of us, usually think within pre-conceived thought worlds, that although we may not always realize it were originally the thoughts of the great philosophers, truisms, or so we assume, that we...
Oct
20
2020
The Popes and Slavery
There have been many accusations recently that the Catholic Church blessed and permitted slavery. In the bull Dum Diversas Nicholas Vth authorized the enslavement of Africans and the seizure of “all non-Christian lands” belonging to Saracens...
Oct
19
2020
The Government’s incompetence over corona virus has been dismaying. They say they are following the science but then ignore the scientific advice. Contact tracing is a tragedy and a national humiliation. It only works if you start it when...
Oct
14
2020
Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic - post 16. In my beginning is my end.
The great philosophers are of immense importance. They are important because they stake out the boundaries of thought. They supply us with basic...
Oct
07
2020
In the view of most natural philosophers, as scientists were called in the seventeenth century, the publication of Newton’s Principia Mathematica in 1687 was the definitive demonstration of the Newtonian mechanical universe. In Laplace’s classical expression of it there...
Oct
02
2020
A doom and gloom prophet like me is caught in a predicament. However scientifically attested the coming doom might be people don’t want to believe it, and the more you try to tell them the more they say oh...
Oct
01
2020
Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic Post 8. Quantum (2) It Gets Weirder Still.
Ever since Bohr when faced with the paradox of how matter can be both particle and wave had proposed that real things do not...
Sep
30
2020
Think of the extraordinary order of a beehive. Each bee has its appointed task, it all makes exact sense in terms of the overall survival of the hive. The bees make cells in their combs exactly hexagonal (mathematically the...