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Carl Nilsson Linnæus One of the scientists whom I've always regarded as remarkably lucky was Carl Nilsson Linnæus (23 May 1707 – 10 ...

No Lusting! What was it with Matthew, or whoever it was writing the stuff attributed to him in the Bible? Later on in the Bible, Matthe...

Professor Peter Ware Higgs BBC News - Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC It's been the worst kept secret for severa...

In this post I'm going to look again at 'speciation' and why it is usually only possible to identify that it has occurred often ...

Abiogenesis : Noun: technical term for spontaneous generation. Origin: late 19th century: from a 'not' + Greek bios 'life...

Daniel Dennett Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! Sir Walter Scott I came across this passage in Danie...

In this post I'm going to discuss the psychological process called 'cognitive dissonance' and how it can explain the o...

Readers of this blog will remember how I posed the question, How Do You Know Satan Didn't Write The Bible? , and how it's still givi...

Here's another curious tale from the Bible. It's about two cities called Sodom and Gomorrah (which sound more like an Irish curse)....

Adam & Eve in the Gardem Fernado Botero Now here's a funny thing. Browsing my King James Bible, I came a...

Ken Ham Attempting to compensate for the fact that few serious scientists agree with a literal interpretation of Genesis, including creat...

This is the final blog dealing with Francis Collins' book The Language Of God . In this I look at the section in Chapter Ten headed Wha...

To be fair to Francis Collins, of whom I have been critical, though I think not unjustly here and here , it would be wrong of me not to ac...

In a recent blog, Francis Collins - The Language Of God Delusion I showed how Francis Collins needed to use double standards to maintain t...

We depend on our doctor. We rely on their expertise because medicine is a huge, complex and ever-changing subject that most of us simply d...

Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) Reading Daniel Dennett's must read book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea ...

Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) I've been asked (or was it challenged?) to look at the book "The Language Of God...

One of the issues currently causing near hysteria in religious circles is that of marriage. The Catholic Church especially is almost besides...

The Watch Over The Tomb Henry Tissot When asked for evidence of the historicity of Jesus, many Christians will tr...