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, 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...

Saturday, 17 March 2018

Death of an expert

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A few days ago, a remarkable human being left this life. Professor Stephen Hawking, one of Newton’s successors as the Lucasian Professor a...

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...

Saturday, 16 December 2017

On understanding pencils…..

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Consider the humble pencil. For those poor souls born in the internet age who may not be familiar with them, the pencil is a wooden cyli...

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 ...

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...

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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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