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How humanism became the new driver of futurism
It might seem strange to some, but in the earliest days of the Royal Society, everyone was at…
A recent ‘intelligent design’ blunder proves that science is still the biggest problem for religious apologetics
For all the challenges facing religious apologetics in the internet age, science remains the biggest. One can debate…
A Call to Futurism: The Artemis Pioneers
What is futurism? One could describe it as a position of ‘science-optimism’ or ‘techno-optimism’. It is a concerted…
The Big Bang, animal suffering, and debunking apologists: interview with Phil Halper
Introduction Phil Halper is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a science communicator and sceptic with…
Debunking creationists, flat-earthers, and other enemies of science: interview with ‘Professor Dave’
Introduction Dave Farina, known popularly as ‘Professor Dave’, is an American YouTube science communicator who has nearly four…
Lessons from Feynman
Richard Feynman is 100% my favourite scientist of all time (and I have many favourites). The Nobel Laureate…
Review of ‘The War On Science’, edited by Lawrence Krauss
Astrophysicist Lawrence M. Krauss has been one of the staunchest defenders of science this century. Now, he has…
The Ghost of Scopes: Creationists Never Give Up
100 years after the Scopes Monkey Trial, creationism is as potent as ever.
The Scopes Monkey Trial a century on: A global mess that nobody won
100 years on from the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, have we learned anything?
Why Design Arguments Necessarily Fail
When he was a student at Christ’s College, Cambridge, with plans on entering the clergy, Charles Darwin was…
Cultivating epistemic virtue: interview with Julian Baggini
Introduction Dr Julian Baggini is a well-known popular philosopher whose many books include Atheism: A Very Short Introduction…
Evil gods and fun with philosophy: Interview with Professor Stephen Law
Introduction The modern architect of the ‘evil-god challenge’ and a notable advocate of humanism in the 21st century,…
The future of biology, science vs. religion, and ‘ideological pollution’ in science: Interview with Jerry Coyne
Introduction Dr Jerry Coyne is an emeritus professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University…
‘Religion is a killer now’: interview with Professor Peter Atkins
Introduction Peter Atkins is professor emeritus of physical chemistry at Oxford University. He has made astonishing contributions to…
Bringing back the dialectic: interview with Stephen ‘Rationality Rules’ Woodford
Introduction Stephen ‘Rationality Rules’ Woodford is the second-largest atheist YouTuber in the UK. With almost 400,000 subscribers to…
Reality always wins: the perils of ideological science
In 1986, before a live television audience of millions, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after launch. It…
A farewell to Dawkins?
It was a privilege to witness a London date of Professor Richard Dawkins’s ‘farewell tour’ last month. By…
The new faces of unbelief for Generation Z: the rise of the British social media atheists
I stand in the reception of a grammar school in Buckinghamshire with a Cambridge University professor and a…
Rescuing our future scientists and engineers from quitting before they start
In my capacity as a science educator and speaker, I once sat across a table in front of…
80 years on from Schrödinger’s ‘What Is Life?’, philosophy of biology needs rescuing from radicals
What Is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger was a seminal work in philosophy of biology. Published in 1944, this…