As I note last week, Lucio Russo’s The Forgotten Revolution posits that there was a scientific revolution in around 300BC which, for one re...

1. Environmentalism as religion . It's interesting how much it parallels Christianity. 2. A book review of The Closing of the Muslim Mi...

I was just re-reading some sections of Neurophilosohy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain by Patricia Smith Churchland , in which s...

In chapter 15 of The Christian Delusion (Prometheus Books, 2010), Richard Carrier seeks to argue that pagan Greek science was about to achi...

Following on from last week’s post, I want to examine Richard Carrier’s counter-arguments to the Holy Science thesis that only Christianity ...

Chapter 15 of The Christian Delusion (Prometheus Books, 2010) was written by Richard Carrier and is entitled “Christianity was not responsi...

As I briefly alluded to in my last post, during the dissolution of the monasteries, the agents of King Henry VIII destroyed pretty much ever...

I am delighted to annouce that God's Philosophers has been shortlisted for the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books . What's...

The rejection of Aristotelianism thus left the most typical of early modern thinkers with a system of physical states of affairs and a syste...

I've heard some critics of evolution claim that all we have evidence for is micro-evolution, and this only involves decreases in genetic...