Christianity, Space and Aliens
The ongoing scientific quest to explore space – 'the final frontier' – is intimately bound up with the search for 'strange new…
Conflict Myths: Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was a brilliant mathematician, astronomer and physicist. He was appointed to the chair of Mathematics at the…
Fine Tuning the Multiverse Theory
A friend of mine was enjoying a coffee break at an Open University seminar for his philosophy course. Out of the blue, a colleague asked…
Faith and Facts
I don’t like the word ‘faith.’ Not because faith isn’t valuable, but because it’s often deeply misunderstood.…
What Scientists Believe
A preliminary summary of some recent research on the religious beliefs of scientists.
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…
'On Being' - The Scientism of Peter Atkins
Peter Atkins continues to be one of the more boisterous and outspoken of the Oxford atheists. His promotion of ‘scientism’…
Posthumanism, technology and immortality
An interview with Professor Brent Waters on posthumanism and its implications.
Does Science Have Limits?
Will science lead us to complete knowledge of everything, or are there areas science can't touch?