Is Doubt the Enemy of Faith?
Doubt gets a bad rap. We live in a world where we are not supposed to doubt, it is unhealthy—bad. Doubts, though, are like confrontations, which also have a bad […]
Tag Archives: skepticism
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, […]
Atheist honesty
John Gray has provided a refreshing critique of contemporary atheism in a recent essay for The Guardian entitled What scares the new atheists. His lucid analysis has struck me mostly […]
Can miracles really happen?
Miracles. Big ones. Things like raising dead people or walking on water. How on earth are we meant to believe such things in the 21st Century? David Hume, perhaps the […]
Something New
The story of Christmas is little more than one enormous fiction. So I was grimly informed in a recent conversation. Emmanuel, “God with us,” the “humble king” and all that—just […]
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 […]
The Science of Seahorses
Over the last few years, there has been a rise in popular science stuff in cyberspace. For example, the site “I effing love science” (… er…) has around 2.8 million […]
Taking Offense
A major stumbling block for those who reject Christianity is those parts of the Bible which seem to justify actions that we consider to be culturally backward, confusing, and irrelevant […]
Wondering Fair 