Articles and Essays
Atheism 101
Is your God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? -Epicurus It’s clear that a lot of people misunderstand atheism. On a…
The Universe in a nutshell
“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”Douglas Adams – “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. 2,000 years ago we thought that the Earth was the centre of everything.…
Trump’s Republican Party
This article is about the modern Republican party. I’m not talking about what the Republican party or ‘Grand Old Party’ (The GOP) used to be: I’m talking about Donald Trump’s MAGA Republican party, which has positioned itself far to the right of Eisenhower’s 1956 Republican platform. I’m British, but lived in the States for six…
Orange – the customer isn’t always wrong!
When I was growing up, say in the fifties and sixties, the maxim amongst retailers and public facing organisations was “the customer is always right”. But in the modern world it’s as if this has been turned on it’s head to “the customer is an idiot”. OK, the modern world is a complicated place with…
The Man Tin
This is my Man Tin. And very useful it is too. Previously, the bits it now contains were in drawers in various parts of the house, along with general bric-a-brac such as empty cigarette lighters, dried up magic markers, batteries that ‘may’ still have some life, pens that no longer work, old pairs of glasses,…
Saganaga Saga
A fishing trip in the Canadian wilderness that could have gone badly wrong.
It’s only a theory
An attempt to clarify what is meant by the phrase ‘scientific theory’.
Climate change: what can we do?
Climate change – what can ordinary folk do to improve things?
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