Sep
28
2013
Nobody could regret the great blessings that have been brought to mankind by capitalism. You only have to visit a supermarket to marvel at the abundance of its capacity to supply. Yet history would suggest that it will have...
Sep
25
2013
The theory was that oil would peak by 2014 and renewables come into their own, thus saving the world from global warming. It was a myth. More oil has been discovered in the US in the last two years...
Sep
21
2013
Atheists like setting fire to religious scarecrows they have themselves constructed. Marooned forlornly in their fields, with odd bits of straw sticking out at absurd angles, and arms held straight out in crucified position, crowned by vacuous cartoonish faces...
Sep
21
2013
The Church is both right and wrong about contraception There are so many reasons why a reasonable person might think the Catholic Church is wrong about contraception they can hardly be listed. If you wanted an example for why atheists...
Sep
19
2013
As a fervent supporter of Vatican 2 I was horrified to find that there are some Catholics who want to undo all that the Council stood for, but I see now that I was wrong. As I get older...
Sep
18
2013
The irrationality of rationalists Rationalists pride themselves on being more rational than religious believers but I am not sure that they are, perhaps even less so. What do you do if you are faced with a proposition that is highly...
Sep
17
2013
Believing in God is nothing to do with proving or disproving h(i)r existence… Illicit processes of the major and undistributed middles have nothing to do with it (‘With respect Professor but might I point out that if p equals q...
Sep
15
2013
Freedom is not the capacity to choose to have a coffee rather than a tea. There can be little doubt that such choices are dictated by determinist physical processes, and only feel free because they are too complex for...
Sep
12
2013
Christ was right about marriage or at least… Christ was right about marriage or at least that’s been my experience. In Darwinian terms sex is about the spreading of genes. It makes sense therefore for males to impregnate as many...
Sep
11
2013
Things in which I hear the greater voice of the universe speaking although not in words: Sweet peas ...