The Philosophical Muser

  I get frustrated on your behalf with politicians (frequently egged on by voters) when they sell a bad policy that will cause net harm to e...

Looking through some of my old Word files, I came across some jottings from the 2000-2001 period, when I was first being introduced to Chris...

I believe God speaks to us about His creative genius through physics (among many other things), but at the deepest layers of reality physics...

I remember watching a documentary on the Manson family, and I recall some of the family members recounting their turning point for rejecting...

  Perhaps the strongest verse for keeping some Christians rooted in evolution-denying creationism is this one in Romans 5: “Therefore, jus...

  Richard Dawkins is probably the most influential atheist of the past few decades, with a huge fanbase and waves of adulation. The trouble ...

  I responded to a friend about God's apparent silence sometimes when things are at their lowest, and thought I’d share for encouragemen...

  If every individual (or firm) makes decisions based on the total net benefit to everyone - not just themselves - then outcomes would be so...

It's always struck me as absurd that so many people think there is incompatibility between good science and good Christianity. By 'g...

  Let me ask you a question, first associated with the brilliant mathematician John von Neumann. This question is easy, and you should get i...

Consider the question of how grateful we should be for things. Consider 4 events for which I’d be grateful:   A)     A chap walking in fro...

  The term ‘Climate crisis’ is uttered at will these days, and the danger is that young people brought up in this normalised Overton Window ...

  In case you haven’t noticed what’s been happening in the past few decades, regarding some of the most toxic things in society right now, I...

By and large, I don’t get heavily involved in much politics (and certainly not party politics) or mainstream media narratives. For years, I’...