Sep
10
2015
Is this a most irreverent thought, but I can't help thinking the Catholic Church will never convert mankind until it gets out of the Vatican. St Peter's was built on the sale of salvation and is a monument to...
Sep
10
2015
The God Delusion is what it says on the tin. I’ve been thinking seriously, or rather unseriously, of getting one of those t-shirts that say ‘Religion: together we can find the cure’, but when I found it would cost twenty three...
Sep
10
2015
Most rationalist take their stand on the principle that science and only science tells us truth because only science follows a rigorously rational method of enquiry. But science by definition only investigates material dismensions of reality. If there were...
Sep
10
2015
An important moment, in fact the important moment, in the development of modern science was the publication of Newton’s Principia in 1687. The Royal Society refused to bear the expense of its publication, so Newton was eventually forced to...
Sep
10
2015
Theologically Hawking and Krauss are the most interesting writers about cosmology since Aquinas. Like Hawking and the Zen masters Aquinas thought the universe emerged from nothing, although he called it existence itself. Dawkins has totally misunderstood Aquinas in The...
Sep
10
2015
'a said loo-ook 'ere lady stop depositing your dog muck in front of my front doorOh it wasn't me she saidOo was it then? The Pope? (the genuine Lancashire)
Sep
09
2015
The sex in Lady Chatterley's Lover was cosmic and wonderful but how soon did it degenerate into Lady Loverley's Chatter? I said to Sir Clifford and Sir Clifford said to me and that bitch Mrs Bolton broke a plate...