Even if at Paris the most radical proposals…

Climate scientists have assessed the proposals governments have made for their contributions to the climate summit in Paris in December, and have concluded that even if the most far-reaching proposals are adopted, which they won't be, and even if...

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those poor girls

 Mr Cameron says he doesn’t want his daughters discriminated against because of their gender.  Those poor girls.  Just suppose they’d had loads of money in the background, the best education money could buy, first rate connections and a Dad...

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Who has been the more successfully married?

 Who has been the more successfully married, me who has a loving wife and has been made deliriously happy by marriage, or my friend who took on a man who turned out to constantly belittle her, was given to...

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From Beyond the God Delusion Ch 3 Wonder

Chapter 3.  WonderRichard Dawkins is right about  God but not right enoughAt Matthew Haydon’s Immortal Dinner in December 1817 Keats and his fellow poets drank to ‘Newton’s health and confusion to mathematics’.  Years later Haydon, writing to Wordsworth, explained...

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Why are rationalists so irrational?

 1.     Rationalists usually say that they believe in science.  But by definition science only examines material reality.  If there were an immaterial reality science would not locate it.  It is irrational to say that there is no immaterial reality...

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