‘Faith in the Age of Science’ Revisited
I’ve had some time off from thinking, on account of the day job, but a recent minor event applied the …
Category Archives: Atheism
Towards a Progressive Faith?
I’m one of those people who records TV programmes in order to fast forward through the advertising. It would be …
The Intellectual Weakness of New Atheism
The ‘new atheism’ is spearheaded by Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens. Slightly in the …
An Atheism that Faces Reality
I had a good weekend: IKEA duties fulfilled, and an excellent read. This post is not about IKEA (although I …
The Nature of Evidence
The famous Christian apologist William Paley wrote his Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity in 1802, drawing …
Could Atheists Please Clarify What They Mean?
If there were a prize for gobbledegook it might be difficult to sort out the winner between government regulations, particle …
Grand Design is Not So Grand
Stephen Hawking is one of those people whom it is impossible not to admire. I fear though that his series …
How Exactly Does Humanism Work?
Humanists claim to have a non-religious alternative to religious belief. While it is easy to understand such a claim as …
What We’ll Never Know
My routine trips to the doctor’s surgery (blood pressure, statins etc.) are predictable, as is the reading material in the …
A new approach to religion
In the discussion between science and religion it is often assumed that religion reigned supreme until science destroyed its roots, …
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