1st Jan 2008 : Like many people, I once trusted in the wisdom of Nature. I imagined that there were real boundaries between the natural and the artificial, between one species and another, and thought that, with the advent of genetic engineering, we would be tinkering with life at our peril. I now believe that this romantic view of Nature is a stultifying and dangerous mythology.

1st Jan 2008 : When a politician changes his mind, he is a 'flip-flopper.' Politicians will do almost anything to disown the virtue – as some of us might see it – of flexibility.

8th Dec 2007 : Despite appearances, scientists and literary authors have spent centuries mirroring each other, albeit indirectly

26th Nov 2007 : Sir Harry Kroto gave this lecture with a PowerPoint presentation, but we only have the audio available. Some points refer to the visuals, but on the whole I think it is possible to follow the audio.

25th Nov 2007 : SCIENCE, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term "doubting Thomas" well illustrates the difference. In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

8th Nov 2007 : Hello again, Michael Behe*! Im glad you found the time to reply to my essay, as your response provided me with yet another opportunity to write about really cool research that you are blissfully (arrogantly?) unaware of, and yet another opportunity to expose the fact you are a charlatan to the entire planet! Yay!

3rd Nov 2007 : Go ahead, roll in it. Revel in it. You're made of it. What, you prefer a meek, sterile world?

10th Oct 2007 : Brian Aldiss is one of the world's leading science-fiction writers. Here he assesses how he and his fellow novelists got it right — and wrong — about space travel

19th Sep 2007 : Mary Midgley argues that opponents of intelligent design are driving people to accept it.

17th Sep 2007 : I am pleased to see that Richard Dawkins.net has posted on its website the recent article in The Guardian about our Bili Ape Project.

14th Aug 2007 : Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else's hobby.

7th Aug 2007 : As reasonable and sufficient as the Knowledge Paradigm sounds, there are those who insist that not only is this view wrong and arrogantly expressed, but that it represents a falsely all-encompassing and therefore unsupportable metaphysical position about the nature of reality. They refer to this Knowledge Paradigm as 'scientism.'

28th Jun 2007 : We will never explain the cosmos by taking on faith either divinity or physical laws. True meaning is to be found within nature

1st Apr 2007 : Richard Dawkins' review of Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont.