A theological blog 28 -ii -19. Milankovich cycles

Milankovich Cycles. Milutin Milanovich was an engineer employed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the early twentieth century.  A Serb, he was interned in Budapest during the First World War and spent much of his time in the library of the...

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What Should We Do With Shamima Begum?

What Should We Do With Shamima?   The Home Secretary’s reaction to the problem posed by Shamima Begum’s desire to come home is surely right.  The safety of the public must come first.  This is a woman who is unrepentant about...

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A theological blog 12 ii 19. Bacon and value-free science

In Catholic theology God is within the universe and matter is alive because it is deeply animated by the divine presence.  But the trial of Galileo killed Catholic science, with the consequence the science moved north and became a...

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A theological blog 6-ii-19. The Protestantization of Science

The Protestantization of Science The trial of Galileo killed Catholic science.  Catholic scientists now became terrified of being burnt alive by the Inquisition which had already burnt Giordano Bruno and would undoubtedly have incinerated Galileo had he not been the...

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