Awww. how cute 7 Jun 2009 Hare Krishna devotees trying to talk about Darwin. Igos, ha! Evolution Religion
Religion The religious we have always with us 23 Oct 2008 In my recent talk on secularism, I declared that there will always be religion, and a secularist ought to get used to that fact. Secularists have assumed that a secular society will cause religion to wither away and die, but this seems to me a foolish thing to believe. Every… Read More
Evolution A review of Hitchens 9 Jul 2007 I probably agree with Christopher Hitchens on many substantive points. But I won’t be reading his book. Instead, we can thank this reviewer for their critical, ascerbic, and I suspect in the end accurate review of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Read More
Ethics and Moral Philosophy The hammer of religious faith 24 May 2009 To a man with a hammer, everything is a nail. But hammers actually have a purpose that is useful. They do things. Some religious belief is rather more like a man with an imaginary hammer. The outgoing and obviously not-to-be-missed Archbishop of Westminster, the man who thinks you aren’t entirely… Read More
I’d like to see what would happen if a ‘teach the controversy’ advocate was handed this stuff as a contribution to the curriculum.