Category Archives: Science

Denton, emergence and common descent

In between spotting rare birds in the reedbeds and sampling real ales in country pubs, I took the opportunity of some time away this week to read Michael Denton’s Evolution, Still a Theory in Crisis. As agreed by both Darrel Falk, former President of BioLogos and Sy Garte, respected colleague on The Hump of the Camel, in their respective reviews it is an important book, which is why I will put it on the Books We Like page at the earliest opportunity.

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God’s Good Earth – Conclusion

Here is a link to the short conclusion of my book, which completes the posting on The Hump.

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Citius, Altius, Fortius

Imagine you’re on a scientific grants committee (perhaps you are!). A young PhD comes to you and says, “I want a grant to investigate the physical explanation of the Babylonian theory of astrology.”

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Soothsayer, say your sooths

Just a quick observation on the BBC radio news this morning. For some reason, despite Leicester City winning the league, they were short enough of news to run a piece on three possible earthlike planets orbiting (as I understand it) a single star. So what else is new?

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God’s Good Earth – Chapter 9: On Pain and Suffering

Here is a link to chapter 9 of my book.

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God’s Good Earth – Chapter 8: The Non-Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Here  is a link to chapter 8 of my book, and an apology.

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God’s Good Earth – Chapter 7: Bogeys in the Evolutionary Coal-Cellar

Here is a link to chapter 7 of my book.

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My book at last – in samizdat

I’ve been mulling over what to do with a project that has been languishing for far too long – a study on the myth that the natural world fell when mankind first sinned. A brief summary of a long story may help orientate things.

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The non-presentation of self in everyday life

The title of this piece is based on a once influential social psychology book by Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. In around 250 pages, the author fully covers the ground of his subject, just like it says on the cover, writing (as one reviewer said) not only about Vogue models, clergymen and the dead, but also about Shetland crofters, Canadian Army dentists, dukes, beauticians, rajahs and a range of characters.

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Monotheism and automata

In my last post I suggested that failure to deal adequately with the implications of monotheism itself leads directly to many erroneous ideas in both theology as such and in understanding the relationship of God to creation, including evolution.

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