Charlie Brooker, favourite misanthrope of Guardian readers everywhere (after David Simon, of course) yesterday claimed that Contemplating the scale of the universe makes a mockery of household chores. Funnily enough, the relationship between cosmos and chores was one of the topics I mentioned in my wedding speech, but I came to a rather different conclusion: […]
A subject that I touched on briefly in my recent sermon on the Fall is how our scientific understanding of the origins and development of man should fit with Genesis 3. This is not one of the main points of what Genesis 3 is saying, so when preaching, I only acknowledged the issue rather than […]
Last weekend, I watched Einstein and Eddington, the BBC2 drama starring Andy Serkis and David Tennant as the two scientists, whose lives become intertwined through Einstein’s new and unproven theory of relativity . I don’t know enough about the two figures to judge how historically accurate it was. I’d be somewhat surprised if the two […]
Yesterday marked 50 years of the space-age, half a century since Sputnik became the first human object to be put in orbit around the Earth. What I want to know is where are our day-trips to the Moon? What happened to getting to work by jetpack, or boldly going where no-one has gone before? It […]
Here are some of my articles for Quench’s Debate page over the last few months: Dating: An individualistic, consumerist and self-centred method of relationships? (website, pdf) The Meaning of Life: How the glory of God gives meaning to all we are and do. (website, pdf) Space: The final frontier or a distraction from life on […]
There’s a funny piece over on Boundless Line about the dangers of “dihydrogen monoxide”. Unfortunately it uses it as a way of taking a side-swipe at us humans causing global warming. For some reason, the Religious Right in America seems particularly hostile to the idea – which given its political influence, and the overwhelming evidence […]
That’s the question I set out to examine in this week’s Gair Rhydd. The article as published can be read online, but what follows is the uncut and extended edition, presented for your reading pleasure… Intelligent Design for DummiesScience, religion and politics have collided in an explosive mix in America recently with the controversy surrounding […]
I’ve just finished a history essay on “how do medieval attitudes to time and space differ from modern ones?” It’s been very interesting to research and write, to be honest. In particular, I’ve enjoyed Allan Chapman’s book Gods in the Sky, which is about the history of astronomy, and in particular the impact of religion […]
Have a look at this website, where you can track the paths of satellites orbiting Earth – very interesting!