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Sunday, 1 January 2012

An Independent Hogmanay

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An old university friend pointed me to a web site campaigning for Scotland to remain part of the United Kingdom a little while ago.  Reading...
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Saturday, 31 December 2011

Dinner for One

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Some time during the last year I heard a story about a short black and white British comedy film which is played on German TV every New Year...
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Friday, 30 December 2011

I'm a Creation Agnostic too

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Have you ever noticed how some people just need to believe something about everything.  There are no areas of knowledge where they are cont...
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Thursday, 29 December 2011

Wisdom from an economist? Yes really!

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John Maynard Keynes , 1883-1946, was a British economist who overturned the earlier ideas of neoclassical economics and worked to replace th...
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Wednesday, 28 December 2011

A life without belief is possible - if not preferable!

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A few days ago, on the post ' Long live the legacy of Hitch ' one of my most regular and popular commentators, @Hilary, wrote a para...
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Tuesday, 27 December 2011

Human figures in the chalk

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I had planned to conclude the series about the chalk figures of England, with two human figures carved into the hillsides.  However, people ...
Monday, 26 December 2011

Uncontacted Tribes

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This moving and amazing aerial footage of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon forest says more than any words I can imagine. <p&...
Sunday, 25 December 2011

What I want for Christmas

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If I had the power to produce exactly what I want for next Christmas, I would have all the kings and emperors resign and allow the people to...
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Saturday, 24 December 2011

White Spires at Christmas

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Following the theme of the strange forms of art found in the chalk uplands of England (having covered horses in the first post, other animal...
Friday, 23 December 2011

The 'New War on Christmas'?

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So . . . there is a war on Christmas.  Or so we are told by so-called Christians who seem to think that their 'ancient traditions' a...
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Thursday, 22 December 2011

Mass

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A priest greets a Higgs Boson and welcomes him into the church. "We haven't seen you here before" The Boson replies ...
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Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Subtle but cheeky advertising

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Remember a few years ago - amazingly it was 2001 when it was published - when this advert went 'viral'?  I don't think the word ...
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Tuesday, 20 December 2011

UK needs its own Dover Trial

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We are now 6 years on from the historic Kitzmiller vs Dover Trial in which brave parents challenged a US school board's decision to tea...
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Monday, 19 December 2011

Fusion gets a bad press - a personal view on the reasons

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Why has there been so much negative news about fusion energy this month?  I suppose it is because the EU has finally committed itself to spe...
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Sunday, 18 December 2011

Poe's Law, and lying for Jesus!

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'Poe's Law' is one of those expressions that seem to have arrived in vernacular English from nowhere.  There are several variati...
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Seasonal Sunday extra

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Just an innovative Advent Calendar
Saturday, 17 December 2011

More hillside art

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Following on from the surprisingly successful post about White Horses in England , here are some other animal figures. The Whitehawk Hawk...
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Friday, 16 December 2011

A Big Question for Christians

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Christians often ask atheists a question that they seem to think is the blockbuster that proves that their faith is well founded.  " ...
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Long live the legacy of Hitch

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Sadly, the news this morning tells us that Christopher Hitchens has finally lost his battle with cancer.  I wonder whether anyone could repl...
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Thursday, 15 December 2011

White Horses in the Chalk

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Real white horses make me sneeze and wheeze, but the horses you see here don't have that effect on me.  I was browsing around the supe...
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