Knox Box

Not quite a science blog, not quite a Bible blog, not quite a politics or family blog. Just a box into which almost anything might be thrown. Worth a rummage in. See the labels cloud on the right for an idea of what you might find.

Saturday, 11 June 2016

God on the brain

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The headline reads “Did St Paul hear God’s voice or was he having a fit?” (The Times, 31 st May, 2016, p11). Tom Whipple, Science Editor ...

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...

Sunday, 14 February 2016

Enjoy your sofa Dan…..

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There was a little flurry of disquiet in certain quarters this week that almost certainly will have escaped the notice of most. The only re...

Sunday, 31 January 2016

Mellowing with age….?

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I was struck by an article in yesterday’s Times (“It’s time feeble feminists started to condemn the misogyny in Islam” p32, 30/1/16) in whi...

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Paul C. Knox: I'm a Christian, in the Biblical as opposed to the ethnic or generic sense, retired academic scientist, and recently minted theology graduate. The way science and faith interact is of interest to me. You can find our more about my science on my web pages. But here I range far and wide.

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