A positive post about religion for a change. I just read this op-ed piece about Jesus in The Guardian. I think there are three powerful elements in what we know about his teaching that are enduringly important and have lessons … Continue reading →

I thought this guy was me when I first read the subtitle of his blog. But I am not a mac-user. His criticism of Sullivan is similar to mine though. Sullivan champions an idealized form of conservatism that is so … Continue reading →

There’s a nice parody of a whole class of reviews of The God Delusion over at Dawkins’s own site. Until Dawkins has trained in the shops of Paris and Milan, until he has learned to tell the difference between a … Continue reading →

For the first 40 years of my life, there has only been one rule of underpants. The label goes at the back After several days of trying to figure out how to work my new underpants, I realized that they … Continue reading →

The Church of England was like the kindly old man who lived down the road. Continue reading →

Ever have one of those moments where you know that the other guy is gonna kick that chest-high ball but if you were to stick your head in there you would get the ball before him and it would create … Continue reading →

I just did a quick count of our Christmas cards. They are evenly split between the sacred (Merry Christmas) and the secular (Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays and the like). The Christian cards mostly have scenes of the holy family or … Continue reading →

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I was wrong. I expected the anti-religious polemic The God Delusion to be over the top but I found it to be entirely measured and reasonable. Dawkins doesn’t so much ridicule religion as shine a light on its ridiculousness. Dawkins … Continue reading →

I have two burning questions that I have been saving up to ask an evolutionary biologist should I happen to run into one. The first is If all the primates were to die off, from which class would the next … Continue reading →