A few years ago, I read The Red Tent by Anita Diamant , and was very disappointed in it. It tells the story of Dinah who was the sister of ...

Here is a story. Once upon a time, there was a woman who lived on the edge of a village. She lived alone, in her own house surrounded by her...

When were the Middle Ages? I always thought I knew the answer to this question. They were the period between the fall of the Roman Empire a...

Alvin Plantinga , in his Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism , employs what he calls "Darwin's Doubt". He quotes a letter...

From time to time, it is alleged that the invention of the University, one of the crowning achievements of Medieval Christendom, was copied,...

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 ...