"We take the highest and best of human faculties, and, exalting them in our imagination to an unlimited extent, endeavour to attain an ...

My wife sent me a Facebook meme requiring that I answer a few multiple choice questions to establish which great philosopher I am . (By the...

Lee Smolin is a well known and well regarded theoretical physicist who, like all his colleagues, lives in the shadow of the great advances i...

I am sad to announce that – with a somewhat tiresome predictability – I have decided to award A.C Grayling the ‘Golden Grayling’ award fo...

Contemporary western culture is dominated by the "conflict thesis" , the claim that science and religion are at war, and that reli...

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist & an evolutionist. What my own views may be is a question of no conseq...

Recently in North Carolina, a mother homeschooling her children was ordered to enroll them in public school . This despite the fact, acknowl...

If there's one charge that keeps getting leveled by atheists against Christians (and religious believers in general), it is that they ar...

My favourite passage from Josephus is his colourful description of the likes of John and his Galilean brigands during the Jewish War . Here...

At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun. For in this most beautiful temple, who would place this lamp in another or better ...