Tuesday, December 30, 2014

The complexities of the trial of Galileo

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A popular narrative about Galileo and the Catholic church is it was a simply case of science versus religion, freedom of thought versus cens...
Monday, December 29, 2014

One of my favourite places in Australia.

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A week ago I spent a special week hiking in the Kosciuszko National Park [snowy mountains]. This brought back many fond memories from my un...
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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Something I wish non-scientists knew about scientists

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Scientists have diverse philosophical, political, and religious views. Just like any human community (e.g., Indians, lawyers, Canadians, fo...
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Deconstructing the face of evil

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I really enjoyed the movie Hannah Arendt . It is based on the true story of the philosopher-political theorist who wrote a controversial acc...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

A problem with presuppositional apologetics

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Presuppositional apologetics , as advocated by Cornelius Van Til is popular in some circles. Although there are certain sentiments behind i...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

A Christian physicist on rationality

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Andrew Steane is a Professor of Physics at Oxford. He has recently published a book Faithful to Science: The role of religion in Science . ...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

A cogent case for Christian Platonism

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The next book for the monthly theology reading and discussion group is Returning to Reality: Christian Platonism for our times  by Paul Tyso...
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