“And it was good”
A few nights ago, I was reading a popular children’s Bible with my kids. We read through the creation story describing how God made the light, separated the waters, formed […]
Tag Archives: materialism
Evolution explains everything
Does evolution explains you and me? Our thoughts, desires and beliefs? Why we appreciate poetry and disdain injustice? For the past decades, many scientists have affirmed so, extrapolating an overarching, […]
Skepticism is blind to itself
Skeptics are finding skepticism hard to take serious lately. Take The Spectator’s recent parody of Richard Dawkins, for instance. In an article named The bizarre – and costly – cult […]
Thick and Thin
To be an inhabitant of twenty-first century postmodern West is to be well-acquainted with at least some expression of the cultural battle between science and faith. Whether it is a […]
Sifting Trash, Sorting Treasure
When all threatens to be swept away, what would you save? As they say, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Last month my sleepy city of Brisbane had a […]
Vested Interests
The question of God is not a theoretical exercise; it spurts from our guts as well as from our minds.
Last Words Approaching the Afterlife
“What do you think happens when you die?” “That’s a strange question!” your average university student might reply. “When you die, you die. The plug’s pulled out, and the lights […]
