At the margins nothing is certain

 Science gets some people into a bad habit of thinking that something is only true if you can prove it and if you can’t prove it then it can’t be true.  But science itself tells us this isn’t the...

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Mathematics is both God and not God

‘In the beginning was the  Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God:  all things were made through him and without him was made nothing that was made’.  ...

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From Lady Chatterley’s Lover

In the running of the rivers and the cries of the flying geese and the wild winds and the lapping waves I hear the voice of the universe.  Genes and chromosomes yes but also more, much more.‘Little gusts of...

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It is the will of God

 A besetting fault of religious people, second only to their proclivity for inviting God to bless the atrocities religious zealots  have so often committed - for even burning people alive and the appalling inhumanities that occurred in Chile and...

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If the Pope left St Peter’s and the Archbishop of Canterbury…

If the Pope left St Peter's and the Archbishop of Canterbury got out of Lambeth Palace and they sold them to Branson to run as hotels literally millions of people in the third world could be given sight.  An...

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The precious gift of humanists to rellgion

The precious gift of humanists to religion The age in which we are living is the best in which  to be a religious believer for many centuries.  That may seem a strange thing to say given the decline of religion. ...

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Building more nuclear power stations is madness.

Building more nuclear power stations is madness.  If a serious mishap occurred at Sellafield, for example, the whole of the North of England could be contaminated. Proponents of nuclear power will say that with due care and attention such...

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Well done Richard Dawkins for demolishing a God you can’t believe in but –

I’m a great admirer of  Richard Dawkins for his honesty and passionate commitment  to his atheist views.  I think he’s right too that the kind of God he dismisses in  The God Delusion can’t exist.  But this is not...

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Hawking, Krauss, Zen, Aquinas & all intelligent believers

Hawking and Krauss tell us that the universe was not created by "God" but came out of nothing.  Surely they are right.  By nothing they don't mean absolute nothing but a virtual reality out of which all material things...

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Certainly certain science and morally certain science

Kant’s greatest contribution to philosophy was to draw our attention to intuition as a faculty of the mind as basic, indeed more basic, as observation, analysis and logical reasoning.  Once you accept 2+2 = 4 you can proceed to...

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