A Universe From Someone – Against Lawrence Krauss
A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Free Press, 2012), by cosmologist Lawrence M. Krauss, has been lauded…
'Prometheus' Raises Big Questions
Some thoughts about the film Prometheus and the human search for meaning.
Is Christianity a Body-Hating Worldview?
Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion[1] is probably the most well known, or notorious, of the populist atheist manifestos that have…
Margaret Atwood - Life Without Certainty
Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…
The Hunger Games
According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…
Nothing But a Pack of Neurons?
In this paper, Stuart Judge considers whether discoveries in neuroscience that correlate our mental activity with our brain activity…
The Grey
I watched The Grey the other night, and thought it was disturbing, haunting, devoid of hope and the best film I'd seen in a long time. The…