by Phil Braham | Jun 7, 2021 | Covid, General, Philosophy, Scepticism, Science, Social commentary
Duck / rabbit illusion I’ve written many times before about science and what is called the philosophy of science, that is the rules of science, the scientific method and assumptions that scientists make when they do experiments. Nowadays an understanding of real...
by Phil Braham | May 21, 2021 | Covid, General, Philosophy, Scepticism, Science, Social commentary
There’s an old Jewish joke of the man who sends his son to school – presumably at some expense – so that he could become successful. When the son returns home the father asks him what he has learnt: “We learnt that if I have two apples and...
by Phil Braham | Apr 20, 2021 | Atheism, General, Scepticism, Science, The universe
The Darwinian view of evolution The classic Darwinism theory of evolution is very simply explained as follows: Every organism in the process of reproducing produces random mutations. These mutations may result in no apparent affect to the offspring up to an affect...
by Phil Braham | Dec 9, 2019 | Atheism, General, Psychology, Scepticism
What would it take to understand your partner? Suppose we’re talking about your wife, and she explains that she came from a large family where she had to care for her younger siblings and her mother was always busy and the father was never there. It may give you some...
by Phil Braham | Jul 8, 2019 | General, Psychology, Scepticism, Science
“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” Neil deGrasse Tyson Of course an astrologer would say this is true of astrology as well. It misses the point as to what we accept as truth, and this in turn depends on our...
by Phil Braham | Feb 25, 2019 | General, Psychology, Religion and mysticism, Scepticism, Science
It’s probably not completely true to say that this account marks the day I rejected the beliefs of my parents, rather it was a major event in an on-going process that led me to reassess all my assumptions. It was Christmas 1977, I think. I was living in the UK, in St....
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