Sep
30
2015
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...
Sep
28
2015
‘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’. ...
Sep
26
2015
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...
Sep
25
2015
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...
Sep
24
2015
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...
Sep
23
2015
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. ...
Sep
22
2015
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...
Sep
21
2015
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...
Sep
20
2015
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...
Sep
19
2015
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...