Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Tuesday, 24 September 2024

Not “vs” but “and” (so get over it).

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I still occasionally come across talks entitled (to give but one example) “Religion vs Science: Can the two coexist?”; as of writing, the ...
Monday, 27 February 2023

Tolerance and the public square…

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I confess I’m not really sure what is meant these days by “the public square”. There probably isn’t just one, and it probably isn’t a physic...
Friday, 23 December 2022

It’s Christmas on Sunday…….

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You wouldn’t think it was that big a deal that December 25 th happens to be a Sunday. And for most of the planet’s 8 billion inhabitants it...
Thursday, 1 December 2022

(Way) less than less than half….

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No, the title is not a typo. It was inspired by the headline on a  report  on the BBC website last Tuesday, which also appeared in their mai...
Monday, 20 December 2021

Numbers game: Christianity in retreat…?

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The end of December is an interesting time of year for all sorts of reasons, some more logical than others. It marks (although somewhat arbi...
Thursday, 15 July 2021

Life in the pandemic XXVIII More atheist wobbling…..

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I’ve got a lot of respect for honest atheists. They have a long and interesting heritage. Many are thoughtful about why they think as they d...
Saturday, 15 May 2021

Life in the pandemic XXV The touching faith of atheists…….

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Atheism, in its various forms, has a very old and in some quarters a cherished history. It’s a history that many modern-day atheists seem to...
Sunday, 5 January 2020

New atheism’s old problem(s)

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Christmas ratings suggest that the demise of network TV may have been overstated. Here in the UK the BBC’s new Dracula drama (a co-product...
Sunday, 18 August 2019

Don't ask me how I'm feeling

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Full disclosure – I’m a Scot. We have a reputation for being a dour, miserable lot. Some argue that this explains why we took to Calvinism...
Sunday, 21 July 2019

What an odd thing to do on a Saturday night…

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Here I was sitting in a tent on a Saturday night. Perhaps in and of itself not that odd I’ll grant. But it was a rather large tent, holdin...
Monday, 2 April 2018

Easter Reflections II

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The trick to setting up a successful enterprise, regardless of whether it’s honest or a con, is believability. The key to sustaining it is b...
Monday, 12 March 2018

The insufficiency of science

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There are scientists who talk about a “theory of everything” although it turns out they do not literally mean a theory of “everything”. Th...
Monday, 17 July 2017

The Faith in Science

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The blogosphere is a big and diverse place. There's all sorts of stuff out there (and here). One could spend one's life navigating i...
Monday, 29 May 2017

A chasm … that cannot be bridged?

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These days, not being a cosmologist, materials scientist or molecular biologist, the only bits of “Nature” I read with any expectation o...