Roger Scruton always brings some much needed clarity to the whole ‘new atheist’ thing: Consciousness is more familiar to us than any other feature of our world, since it is the route by which anything at all becomes familiar. But this is what makes consciousness so hard to pinpoint. Look for it wherever you like,… Continue reading
Author: John Farrell
Writer and producer working in Boston.
Scenes We’d Like to See Dept.After All-Star Boston Red Sox Closer Jonathan Papelbon received death threats from furious Yankee fans during the All-Star Game Parade in New York yesterday, an outraged University of Minnesota Professor P.Z. Myers denounced them as “demented f*&%wits” on his blog and openly asked Sox fans everywhere to send him mementos… Continue reading
The Church and ScienceMy post from late last year has been revised at the courteous request of Father Hugh MacKenzie in the UK, and is now online as part of the July issue of Faith, which he publishes six times a year. Stop by for a visit.
The more I read about this guy, the more I like his plan. Not the slightest idea whether wind-generated power could provide the percentage Pickens claims, but at the rate of money this country is blowing per year on oil from countries that don’t like us, it’s worth serious consideration.
Bigotry Dept.I think PZ Myers has gone off the deep end. What exactly is a 51-year-old biology professor doing, openly asking his readers to send him eucharistic wafers so that he can video himself desecrating them? Doesn’t this guy, like, have classes to teach? Or…you know, some research to do? I have heretofore cut him… Continue reading