In 1859, Charles Darwin published On The Origin of Species, and the debate about how his theory of evolution relates to the first few…

There is probably no name more indelibly linked with rigid church fundamentalism than that of Bishop James Ussher (1581-1656), who today is…

A friend of mine was enjoying a coffee break at an Open University seminar for his philosophy course. Out of the blue, a colleague asked…

Less than two metres tall and only lasting about 70 years — can we matter in a universe that is so big and so old, so dark and so cold?

Who Made God? Everything has a beginning and was caused to exist by something else. But what about God? Who caused Him to exist and when?

I hesitate to go back to Stephen Hawking’s book, The Grand Design, as the press coverage at the time was immense and many people…

A look at Hawking's claim that modern physics shows we do not require a Creator God.

A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Free Press, 2012), by cosmologist Lawrence M. Krauss, has been lauded…