'Mind Viruses and Memes' - thinking errors in a freethinker
My focus in this essay is to illustrate, through a detailed analysis of one particular article, the range of fallacious tactics that are…
Isn't Science More Rational than Faith?
One of the core arguments of Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion is that religious faith is irrational. “Dyed-in-the-wool…
The Challenge of Atheism
Three talks by Wim Rietkerk entitled 'The Challenge of Atheism' consider whether Christianity whould be seen as an ideology or as a…
The Genealogy of Postmodernism
What has led to the current thinking on what we can know and how we come to know it? Bruce Little considers postmodernism and epistemology.
Can Reading the Papers Make You Go Blind?
A newspaper front page is, in essence, a religious object. Of course that isn't what we think we're buying. But it's what we get. Not with…
Astrophysics Points to the God of the Bible
From the laws of physics themselves and their physical constants to the astrophysical picture of the development of the universe to the…
Having Some Faith in the Grey Matter
A review of Ian McEwan's Saturday.
Narcissism - The Worldview of Self
Andrew Fellows' series of four talks on Narcissism - the Worldview of Self
Knowledge and Intuition
In the 19th century novel Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy listed intuition as the first evidence for the logician. Learn how to…