Author Archives: Jon Garvey

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About Jon Garvey

Training in medicine (which was my career), social psychology and theology. Interests in most things, but especially the science-faith interface. The rest of my time, though, is spent writing, playing and recording music.

Tall tales in science

Posted on 06/01/2020 by Jon Garvey

I found this short, but useful “entry level” video on the replication crisis in science on YouTube.

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Alternative feminism

Posted on 04/01/2020 by Jon Garvey

Thaddeus Russell is an interesting guy, an historian more or less evicted from the academic establishment for contradicting the prevailing progressive agenda. He’s started an alternative “university,” which is interesting in itself as a similar project has been mooted by the English philosopher Roger Scruton, who was also sidelined by an ideologically strait-jacketed academia.

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Heidi, hi!

Posted on 31/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

I chanced upon an example of my kind of science documentary on TV over the weekend, by courtesy of those nice people at Nature.

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Is wokeness a running-through-treacle dream?

Posted on 28/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

A vegan Green explained to me over Christmas why eating eggs is bad. The problem, it seems, is that poultry bred for egg-laying is sexed at a day old, and the males, being non-productive, are mostly culled for animal feeding or fertilizer. This denies them the right to a meaningful life, which cannot be justified on animal welfare terms. Ergo eating eggs is immoral.

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Progress on Heaven and Earth

Posted on 23/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

Well, the indexes of The Generations of Heaven and Earth have now gone off to the publishers, which is my last literary input before the book comes out.

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The dangers of making assumptions about data

Posted on 17/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

I commend to you this YouTube presentation by Frank Lansner, from October, which explains and updates his 2018 paper, which is unfortunately behind a paywall:

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Genealogical Adam and Eve

Posted on 13/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

Three days late (to miss the rush) I need to remind you that on 10th, Joshua Swamidass’s book The Genealogical Adam and Eve was published, and has already attracted a number of reviews including one at BioLogos (they got the title wrong initially, like Francisco Ayala did reviewing Stephen Meyer’s Signature in the Cell there back in the day – read more carefully, chaps, if you want to appear sincerely interested).

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I learn how to manipulate the masses (in 1963)

Posted on 10/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

I recently recalled the time, in primary school, when I was able to control the behaviour of my entire school.

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Murdering opinions

Posted on 02/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

Between school and university, I spent several months as a lowly scientific assistant in a government Pest Control Laboratory.

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You can’t exclude human influence from science

Posted on 27/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

The title of this blog could refer to a number of things I’ve discussed here over the years. It could mean the fact that science is entirely a human activity, which could be summarised as asking the near-infinite realm of nature particular questions of human interest, to which it will return equally particular and incomplete answers. Or it could refer to the mysterious effects of mind on quantum events. But in fact in this post it’s about something else: providence.

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