A different view of Darwin: the poet who died

The young Darwin was the most tender hearted and deeply feeling and most joyful of souls.   His experiences of nature in South America during the voyage of The Beagle were intense and ecstatic encounters with the sublime, which, he...

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By certainty people usually mean a refusal to look at evidence…

By certainty people usually mean a refusal to look at evidence that doesn’t accord with their existing prejudices.  2+2 = 4 is an enclosed garden of certainty but not much else.  Even the greatest scientists turned out to be...

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A Bower of Willow

A Bower of Willow Let me weave a bower of willow at your gate And bring stars new plucked and shining in a bowl Let me journey far to strange exotic lands And bowing low lay silks and spices at your feet   But none...

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What genius persuaded 97% of scientists to lie about climate change?

Is it reasonable to think that so many climate scientists who have spent their lives studying climate don’t know what they are talking about?  In light of what the scientists are so solemnly warning us of, you would have...

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It’s not just “that’s just the way it is”.

The cornerstone of modern atheism is undoubtedly evolution by random natural selection.  Paley’s doctrine was that the creatures we see about us are so exquisitely contrived there must be an exquisite contriver, they could not possibly have come about...

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Methinks it is very like a weasel

Baconian method – gathering of data, deductive hypothesis, experimental verification and peer review – has been so successful it has got us into a bad habit of thinking we know things.  Well we do, but, contemporary science assures us,...

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Through dull and undistinguished days…?/

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Nuclear war has never been so dangerous a possibility.At least in the cold war both sides were primarily interested in the other side not blowing them to bits.  But now we have people who are quite prepared to destroy...

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How can Brexit work?

How can Brexit work?  48% of the voters voted to remain in the original referendum. In view of the problems since, the rising prices and return of inflation and the dithering by the Government it is highly likely that...

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We shall be the laughing stock of the world if we are not already

Hinkley Point. What a disaster   A wonderful economic future post-Brexit?  Cameron, Osborne and now Mrs May have killed the UK’s economic future with the nuclear power station at Hinkley Point. Unbelievably, they have tied us into paying a ridiculously high...

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