The Philosophical Muser

  One of the big factors behind social, political and domestic division is the habitual mistake of confusing correct policy with preferences...

To master anything - a musical instrument, a sport, running a business, etc - we're going to require a lot of essential qualities: learn...

You may have come across a social experiment called The Ultimatum Game. In this game player A (Jack) is given some money, say £50, and as...

A friend once pointed out to me that there has never been a black Prime Minister in the UK (this was pre-Rishi Sunak) , and he asked how I c...

  Groups like Answers in Genesis and a lot of climate groups and social justice groups conform to the principle of what I call the distribut...

  I started pondering the “character and operation” model I write about in two of my books, and how it is in some way to do with the left an...

  I've been having a brief online exchange with atheist Richard Carrier regarding his rejection of the supernatural. I've previously...

  A friend asked me, in terms of Bayesian probability, what are the chances that Jesus actually rose from the dead? My response: I'll ...

  When it comes to the science, evolution-denying creationists are not just unaware of the errors of the bogus concept of “creation-science”...

  Humanity has been blessed with many fine art forms, four of the most commercially influential being visual art, music, literature, and fil...

  The crisis in UK social care has intensified in recent years, affecting thousands, including my own family. I have lived through this pers...

  Some philosophers claim that an omniscient God has a lower probability than just a supremely knowledgeable but not omniscient God, because...

  At a recent men's breakfast, someone asked me the following; If Christianity is true, why are there such a varied set of Christians wh...

The reason Christianity defeats every other competing explanation for realty is because at its purest (by which I mean what we’d have if it ...

  1) Avoiding unpleasant tasks like dirty household chores and time-zapping  manual labour - anything that robs you of time to do better thi...

In a perfectly competitive market, the price is typically set equal to marginal cost. This is the cost to the producer of producing one more...

P1: Before creation, God, possessing omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence, would have an infinite number of possible creation stori...