As a young biologist, I began my career studying a […]

Wordsworth was right. Despite all sorts of recent proclamations about “ecologically sustainable development”, “maintenance of biodiversity”, “clean and green”, we have isolated ourselves from the natural world -- to its detriment and ours

Like the ancient Greeks, we formerly felt that birds had something to tell us. I suspect that, until we get back to such an understanding, none of the mechanist scientific solutions to restore environments and the like will achieve very much at all

There is, in human affairs, a great battle of ideas, and a major role of the university is to “adjudicate” this debate. That, at any rate, is how the matter was seen in the West for something like two millennia. Alas, we can expect little these days from institutions debased by avarice, ego and nonsense degrees

Do not be fooled that belief in fanciful creatures is a thing of the past. Indeed, it flourishes as never before.  As the ability of modern science to ‘explain’ the natural world increases, so does our need for the inexplicable

Let me advance the modest proposal that, if we extrapolate medical advances in the manner of IPCC scientists,  death will very soon be a matter of personal preference -- as it should be in a modern and enlightened society. Therefore, having children, those little freeloaders, demands a nuanced perspective

Physicists happily indulge speculation that our universe is a chimera emanating from some pimply youngster's computer program: it 'thinks', therefore we are. But describe that adolescent tinkerer as The Creator and  secularist enforcers of scientism erupt in a riot of rejection and reproach

Samuel Johnson stands today as one of the most commonly […]

The sermon for that Sunday took the Gospel account of […]

What might be called the latest eruption of "the Darwin Wars" are a subset of a broader conflict. Funding and status are at stake. These days, unless you can demonstrate what you are doing is “scientific”, your likelihood of attracting support is very low