Feb
18
2019
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...
Feb
12
2019
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...
Feb
07
2019
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...
Jan
31
2019
It is of great importance to distinguish between the Catholic and Protestant concepts of God. For a Protestant like Payley, God is outside the universe and manufactured the things in it as a watchmaker might make a watch. For Catholics...
Jan
21
2019
A theological blog. Number 2 Galileo and Plato (i) The assumptions we make.
Philosophers try to make sense of the world using logic and reason but they often conduct their enquiries within matrices of assumption that are anything but logical...
Jan
18
2019
If your MP is a Conservative send this letter or something like it to him or her with suitable adjustments. A bland and complacent reply from Jake of course.
Dear Jake,
As you will know, the IPCC has recently issued an...
Jan
16
2019
from The Guardian 16 i 19
Consensus - the 97%
Climate change
Our oceans broke heat records in 2018 and the consequences are catastrophic
Rising temperatures can be charted back to the late 1950s, and the last five years were the five hottest...
Jan
14
2019
Atheists commonly take the view that only science is trustworthy because only science follows the rational procedures of unprejudiced gathering of data, hypothesis, experiment and peer review. Everything else is imaginary and mythological illusion. This is a grievous error...