God Explained in a Taxi Ride
A review of the book God Explained in a Taxi Ride.
'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…
Is Evolution Atheistic?
When Richard Dawkins wrote that his discovery of evolution had enabled him to be an ‘intellectually fulfilled atheist’, many…
Atheism and Child Abuse
I woke up this morning to a radio news item about the continuing scandal of child abuse carried out by some Catholic priests during the…
God and Liberty
When Benjamin Franklin introduced his grandson to Voltaire shortly before the latter's death in 1778, that great opponent of the Catholic…
New Atheism, New Apologetics
How Christian apologetics has used science in its response to the claims of the New Atheists. Boyle Lecture 2014.
Reclaiming Reason from Atheism
If evolution programs our brains for survival, not truth, and humanity evolved to believe in God, how can atheists trust that their…
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…
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Cell biologist Lewis Wolpert has recently attained a measure of notoriety with the British public, primarily through the publication of his…