Lazy journalism alert! It has been widely reported in the press this week that the reburial of Nicolas Copernicus in a rather grand tomb rep...

I just finished reading Plantinga 's Warranted Christian Belief , and in the final chapter he addresses the problem of evil, and whether...

T he raison d'etre of a career in academia is to savage your opponents in print under the pretext of a book review, and thereby destroy ...

Since Big Bang cosmology is the claim that matter, energy, space, and time all sprang into existence, it strikes many people as similar to t...

S ome time ago, in a discussion on Richard Carrier’s blog , the historian Charles Freeman mentioned the bizarre treatment of St Thomas Aqui...

S orry I have been a bit quiet recently. I am in the process of emigrating from the United Kingdom to the rather large and eccentric country...

This was a legendary debate that took place just seven months after Darwin published the Origin of Species . "Darwin's Bulldog...

I've gone over this before here and here , so let me just summarize. Some people think 1) Jesus Christ is mythological rather than hist...

It is impossible not to feel sympathetic towards Tony Judt, brain as sharp as ever but trapped in a paralysed body. Although English, he ha...

1. Lamarck may have been right after all . It's starting to look like acquired characteristics can be passed on to one's offspring....