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Why DIY funerals are a bad idea

by Phil Braham | Mar 28, 2022 | Atheism, General, Religion and mysticism, Scepticism, Social commentary

Imagine a time, say, in an English village around the thirteenth century. Life revolved around the church and services were held on sundays and holy-days. For better or worse the priest was the guide and mentor. Death was common and unlike today the format of the...

The laws of the universe

by Phil Braham | Nov 10, 2021 | Atheism, Religion and mysticism, Scepticism, Science

Out of body experience Some years ago I was listening to an interview with an atheist researcher (I forget her name now) who put volunteers who could initiate out of body experiences into an MRI machine whilst monitoring their brain activity. She asked one of the...

The myth of science

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...

Numbers and words

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...

Why Darwinism can’t explain evolution

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...

Do you understand your partner?

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...
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