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If Moral Virtue's Christianity Christ's pretensions were all vanity The Moral Christian is the cause of the unbeliever and his l...

People get muddled up between science and technology. Genetics is science, and it's brilliant. GMOs are technology, and some of them a...

What is wrong with us humans? Something is amiss. We are not, overall, a happy bunch. Violence has always been part of human behaviour.   ...

Regular readers know that I have been debating with a free marketeer. Free market fundamentalism (FMF) has an inherent internal contradict...

The recent Wikileaks farrago, and indeed all leaks in the Internet age, put an end to the idea that governments can and/or should govern by ...

I think, therefore I am. A reasonable start for any man, not just Descartes, but doesn’t get us far. “What am I for?” is more the thou...

The Lowermoor poisoning incident is back in the news: "Water staff told 'keep quiet' over Camelford poisoning". This is ...

A physicist on the post below asks why Osbore is so intent on his madness in eating - or in fact, burning - the scientific seedcorn. Good ...

Centre of Milky Way Galaxy; Image from Hubble Site Professor Stephen Hawking has decided that there is no need for God to explain the Un...

Over on openDemocracy , there is a debate over Paul Kingsnorth's  position. He is unhappy that environmentalists support renewable energ...

Over on Bright Green  I found an interesting discussion on the dangers of diluting Green Party radicalism.  All good stuff, but  I stubbed m...

Here is an hypothesis that links the events in Kyrgyzstan, the Bloody Sunday killings, and Derrick Bird the Cumbria killer and Trident. S...

I see that Nigel Farage MEP may be summoned for his outrageous rudeness to Herman Van Rampuy.  Farrage will become wet with smugness that i...

One of the Ethical Man's points in his provocative piece entitled "Are environmentalists bad for the planet" is the assertion...

The interminable debate about the minutiae of the science - today's news is about regrettable flaws in the methods of Jones and Wang - i...

A reader asks (in a comment below on the Is Climate Change Man Made post): Doc - I am not a scientist, rather a regular Joe concerned that w...

AGW skeptics assert that human greenhouse gases have no effect on global climate. If it is a faith-based assertion, there is nothing that w...

The Guardian has an article on the current Ayn Rand revival. There's an Ayn Rand revival in America these days. Sales of her books At...

There is an interesting counterpoint to the current discussion of Alan Johnson's rejection of scientific evidence on drug abuse, in the ...

The hysteria of the American individualist "Christian" right over Obama's health care plans is mind-boggling. By which I mean ...