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Scientific, Skeptical and Secular (and even anti-theistic)! These are the adventures of an ex-scientist, working as an engineer in energy research, and living in a world that is not secular enough.

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Friday, 1 February 2019

Option paralysis

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It is said (although, by whom I do not know) that Einstein favoured a very limited wardrobe and although he had enough clothes for every da...

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Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Tariq Ramadan and the Charlie Hebdo problem

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What is left to be said about the Charlie Hebdo crisis that unfolded in Paris earlier this month? Perhaps not much, but it won't stop m...

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Saturday, 10 January 2015

Ten Commandments for a secular life

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Bertrand Russell wrote his Liberal Decalogue or ten commandments for a good life in 1951. "The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I ...

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Saturday, 3 January 2015

Sharia gets put back in its rightful place!

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Unlike the USA, the United Kingdom has no ' 1st Amendment ' to its constitution. When it comes down to it, it has no constitution e...

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Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Tolerances and complex problems

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One of my favourite quotations gets a regular airing . . . indeed much more regular than my blog posts have been recently. "For e...

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Plasma Engineer: United Kingdom; Motto: “The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.” – George Bernard Shaw

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