Saturday, September 29, 2012

Secularists oppose a truly secular state

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Recent riots involving parts of the Muslim community in Australia have stimulated significant debate. I thought this Opinion piece by Paul ...
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Science vs. Religion: Does anything change?

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In his 1933 biography of Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton wrote words he intended as a retrospective but which are just as descriptive of ...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Justice and truth matter

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The dramatic images below are taken from the start of last weekends English Premier League football game between Liverpool and Manchester Un...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Worrying about the Bomb

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I enjoyed watching The Crimson Tide , which depicts (fictional) events in a US nuclear submarine at the brink of a nuclear holocaust caused ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Should theologians talk about science?

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As a scientist it can be "interesting" at times to see what some theologians write about science, both in general or specific aspe...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Is the Higgs boson the Atheist particle?

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Lawrence Krauss has a breathless piece How the Higgs Boson Posits a New Story of Our Creation on the Daily Beast. Here argues that the exis...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Historical origins of the science-religion "conflict thesis"

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Last night I attended a really nice public lecture by   Professor Peter Harrison    "Has science made religion obsolete?"  This wa...