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Monday, 28 February 2011

I respect your religion!

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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is...
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Sunday, 27 February 2011

Oxford Think Week - Education

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Samantha Stein's talk about the educational ideology of Camp Quest UK drew a slightly smaller audience than the others I have attended t...
Saturday, 26 February 2011

Oxford Think Week - Consiousness

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A gentleman in the audience began his question with "Speaking as a geologist, your arguments are largely incomprehensible to me . . ....
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Friday, 25 February 2011

Oxford Think Week's disappointment now celebrated!

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This evening's event in Oxford Think Week was somewhat challenging to my own inadequate consciousness.  As someone said, I wished we had...

Think Week goes from strength to strength

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Oxford Think Week's evening event for Thursday was a surprisingly entertaining discussion between Professor Peter Atkins (Chemistry) and...
Thursday, 24 February 2011

Royal Bank insanity - and we put up with it!!

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Too many surprising things are happening this week, but I can't stop myself on a few topics.  I'm easily exceeding my normal daily q...

Epicurean Impotence or Malevolence?

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I'm not a classicist, but I like a couple of quotations from the ancient Greek philosopher, Epicurus. "If god is willing to stop ...

More Paula Kirby

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More on the topic of Paula Kirby's visit to Oxford yesterday evening.  (I promise not to go on about it for ever!)  I had the pleasure o...
Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Oxford Think Week rescued - Paula Kirby

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This evening's event more than made up for the disappointment of yesterday!  Much more!  I ventured to the Oxford Skeptics in the Pub ev...
Tuesday, 22 February 2011

Not Think Week's finest hour!

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So much for the idea of being able to watch the Dawkins/Grayling discussion on Ustream tonight!  I had a premonition that it would be imposs...
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Think about Politics - Towards a Secular State

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In UK we have an 'established church' and Anglican bishops sit in the House of Lords, unelected and (by many) unwanted.  This firs...

Oxford Think Week started

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The first event of Oxford Think Week was tonight.  I made the pilgrimage to Corpus Christi College (the one with the moon dial on the sundia...
Monday, 21 February 2011

Norwegian Wood

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The Norwegians had a unit of length called a 'tomme' or 'thomla' based like the inch on the length of a man's thumb.  Ho...
Sunday, 20 February 2011

The great 'Hitch'!

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"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." Christopher Hitchens. 
Saturday, 19 February 2011

Omniscient God?

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Karen Owens' nice little rhyme summarises a fundamental problem about prayer: Can omniscient God who Knows the future, find The omni...
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Friday, 18 February 2011

Lack of miracles at Lourdes?

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Since pilgrims have been going to Lourdes it is claimed that 65 people have been miraculously cured out of an estimated 100 million visitor...
Thursday, 17 February 2011

Lunar Lunacy

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Full moon again.  Two more to go before Easter, which I am sure you know is the Sunday after the full moon after the vernal equinox.  Rememb...
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Wednesday, 16 February 2011

The soul

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The Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints was set up by Joseph Smith who found some indecipherable inscribed gold plates in up-...
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British biology exam??

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Jerry Coyne's Evolution is True blog gives the disturbing news that a British biology exam for 16 year-olds appears to give/allow a pol...
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Enoch

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Cindy was quite right in her comment on my last post.  Thank you Cindy.  Enoch, father of the much more famous Methuselah, also apparently d...