The last day of 2004 I wrote the first words of a blog on a quiet little site of writers and readers. There are now nearly 400 pages of that blog, and it’s still there on Blogit; the site that has become quieter over the years but still hangs on. I still add to it …
Tag Archives: science
In Defence of Science & Faith
Science and scientists have taken something of a battering in the US over the past several years, over the topic of climate change particularly, but also generally. It comes largely from people who really don’t understand what science is and is not. Maybe they have not really considered the sources of the many benefits of …
Having Faith
My dad, a scientist, once told me, “I don’t need faith, I’ve got knowledge!” I think it was a response to my asking him to have a little faith in me. It was, however, his scientist-mindset all around. He had great respect for the scientific method, for things known, and for things not yet known, …
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