Feb
28
2014
A belief in elves and goblins may be primitive and superstitious but it is more rational than humanism. At least it recognizes that in the sticks and stones of daily experience there is a further dimension of reality expressing...
Feb
27
2014
We hold these truths to be certain for the only evidence we will admit as evidence is that evidence that is evidence for the truths we hold. Certainty is the last refuge of the prejudiced. For we do not...
Feb
26
2014
As usual at about five in the afternoon I go to see Marjorie. Marjorie is on the brink of ninety years old but her scathing wit and vivid use of English turns these visits from a kindness into a...
Feb
25
2014
Atheists always invent gods even more fantastic than God. Genes ‘purposefully’ direct phenotypes (Dawkins) Mother Nature intended otherwise (Dennett) Dialectical Materialism orders history (Marx) It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world,...
Feb
24
2014
What would you do if a whole army of experts came along and told you that unless we quit oil our children and grandchildren will inhabit a devastated earth, much of which will be uninhabitable? Don't believe them and...
Feb
19
2014
The Catholic doctrine that the dead are not lost is a great comfort to me. I yearn to meet them again with a great yearning. This includes our dead pets, especially our dear cat Webster. This could all be...
Feb
18
2014
Nobody is so irrational as your rationalist. Mankind’s greatest problem, indeed, is the Enlightenment. This is because rationalists so often refuse to heed the lessons of the science in which they say they so exclusively believe. We share almost...
Feb
17
2014
UKIP on immigration, or any other party for that matter, is like someone hiding in a cupboard under the stairs when the house is on fire. If most of the scientists are right, by mid-century parts of the world...
Feb
14
2014
To believe is by definition to be intellectually uncertain, for if you were certain you would not believe you would know. But atheists do claim to know. They think that science and logic prove beyond doubt that we live...
Feb
12
2014
The logic is that as the oceans grow warmer there will be more and more rain and worse and worse storms, and the UK is facing the Atlantic. Already the ground is so saturated in some parts of England...