Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Friday, 22 August 2025

On “Losing my religion”….

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I am a mandolin player. Or perhaps more accurately I should say that I play the mandolin. On this side of the Anglo-Saxon Atlantic, mandolin...
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...
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, 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 ...
Tuesday, 15 August 2017

The strange life and (alleged) death of “new” atheism

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“New” atheism, the type of ascribed to Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens et al, began its short life (according to its Wikipedia entry as of the 12 ...
Saturday, 24 June 2017

Back to that chasm....

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The Nature Editorial that I was reflecting on recently, prompted other responses published in the correspondence section of the journal it...
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...
Saturday, 3 June 2017

Of peacock tears, cows and global warming

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First of all, a potential fake news alert. A story concerning retiring judge Mahesh Chandra Sharma of the Rajasthan State High Court wen...
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...
Monday, 30 May 2016

Told you to trust me – more on faith and science

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I want to return to the issue of faith in science. But there are two ways in which I mean “faith in science”. The first is the role that fai...
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...
Monday, 28 March 2016

The strange case of the disappearing (usurped) Creator

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Language is, of course, a tricky business. Words carry with them levels of meaning that are piled on to them by history, context and cultu...
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...