Many are questioning the philosophical naturalism of some neuroscientists: One major field of study over the past half century has been that of neuroscience or…
Just what is in the water that our leaders are drinking? The old saying about people getting the leaders that they deserve is always worth…
A little exercise in Christian apologetics: Having an interactive blogsite means you will get plenty of questions thrown your way – by friend and foe.…
And there is still no ‘gay gene’. This is a rule of thumb that you can take to the bank: Do not believe everything you…
A term used much in discussions about God, creation and evil comes from the Greek word telos which means end or purpose. The teleology of…
Are atheists capable of anything new and original, or do they just imitate, ape, and copy from the very thing they despise so much? I…
The more controversial an issue, the more likely that common sense, rationality, and sound analysis will go right out the window. Instead, knee-jerk reactions, emotionalism,…
Slavery was allowed for so long because slaves were not regarded as persons. Thus a major part of the anti-slavery campaign was to refute this…
It seems that learning from the mistakes of history is not one of the strong points of many intellectuals. Although we can be taught so…
Why is it that Australia seems to produce so many “ethicists” who would perhaps have been perfectly at home in a certain European nation about…
Abortion is one of the most controversial social issues of our day. Heat rather than light often characterises the abortion debate. There are a number…
For most of human history people have accepted the fact that life is “nasty, poor, brutish, and short”, to use Hobbes’s phrase. But advances in…
SPCK, 2007. The God Delusion by veteran theophobe Richard Dawkins has caused no small stir since being released late last year. It was a wild…
The debate over cloning and stem cell research is vitally important because the focal point of these new biotechnologies is human life. How we are…
Without doubt abortion is a hugely divisive issue. But why is that? People disagree about the best flavour of ice cream, but it is not…
Encounter Books, 2003. Rapid developments in technology, especially in medicine, genetics and biochemistry, are easily outstripping careful analysis and social and moral reflection on these…
Eerdmans, 2002. One of the areas of greatest growth and expansion in recent times is that of biotechnology. New developments are taking place almost weekly,…
Eerdmans, 2001. In the past few decades the advances in bio-technology and genetics have been astounding. The scientific and technical breakthroughs have far out-stripped our…