Showing posts with label belief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label belief. 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 ...
Friday, 30 September 2022

Science + theology?

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A while ago I took to thinking about the area of study in which I am now engaged ( theology ), and also the area in which I had previously b...
Monday, 31 January 2022

“Blessed wonder and surprising delight…”

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Maybe it’s just me, but I assume that there is a time in all our lives when the thought strikes us that we are nearer our death than our bir...
Saturday, 24 April 2021

Life in the pandemic XXIV Alice through the twitter glass…….

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I am fairly sure that (most) humanists are nice people. Certainly, the current president of Humanists UK, Alice Roberts, has always struck m...
Saturday, 15 August 2020

Life in the Pandemic X: Exacerbating uncertainty

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 Many things in life are uncertain (apart from death and taxes obviously). And many things are uncertain in science. Indeed identifying, con...
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...
Saturday, 31 March 2018

Easter Reflections I

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I came across an article recently that opened with the following statement:   Perhaps the most boring question one can ever direct at a re...
Monday, 28 August 2017

Scientism

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If “new atheism” (NA) is, if not dead, perhaps terminally ill , then one of the contributory factors to its demise is the scrutiny that ...
Saturday, 17 June 2017

Can I be a Christian and…? The downfall of Tim Farron

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We’ve had to cope with yet more tragedy in recent days. After terror attacks in Manchester and London, now the news of massive loss of l...
Sunday, 22 May 2016

Faith and aeroplanes

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Every year the eye and vision science community (or at least a fairly large proportion of it) decamps to the United States for the annual me...
Saturday, 5 March 2016

On “Moralistic gods” – at least we're taking them seriously now

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Usually when the subject of religion crops up in Nature (the top ranking scientific journal), it’s because some perceived great obscurantis...