When I find myself in public spaces where people are present in large numbers, I'm struck by how empty and meaningless the lives of so many appear to be.
Category: Philosophy
Lord of the Rings: Identify the Enemy
What is "far-right" about "Lord of the Rings", except in the rabid, seething hatred of an alleged news reporter? I'll tell you: it's dualism. It's the conviction that there are such things as absolute good and absolute evil; that the two are in complete opposition, and that the good can and will ultimately prevail.
Sermons For Other People
I've done it myself, and I would venture to say you have too. I've sat in church listening to a good sermon, and thought one of two things: "I hope so-and-so is listening to this" or, "So-and-so should be here listening to this".
Evil Proves God!
The most common cause of unbelief, according to surveys, is the problem of evil and suffering. If there really were a God, people reason, there would be no suffering. Putin's Russia would not get away with the invasion of Ukraine, Uncle Joe wouldn't have died of that awful disease, and the cat would not have got caught up in a tree.
A Critique of “In Our Time: The Fish-Tetrapod Transition”.
Fish evolved into tetrapods, and tetrapods into humans: So says Darwinian evolution. The alleged transition of life from fish to tetrapod-a walking animal-was the subject of one of the BBC's "science" broadcasts known as "In Our Time", first broadcast on 20th October 2022.
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 