Is Christianity a Body-Hating Worldview?
Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion[1] is probably the most well known, or notorious, of the populist atheist manifestos that have…
"Are human beings just deluxe chimps?"
Some of my friends never tire of pointing out that human beings are just animals. People have been doing this for decades but recent work…
Posthumanism, technology and immortality
An interview with Professor Brent Waters on posthumanism and its implications.
Are we sinners?
What does human society tell us about human nature? Are we essentially good or bad?
Do We Know Why We Are All Equal?
The forthright defence of the permissibility of "after-birth abortion" – infanticide – by two Melbourne-based philosophers in…
Nothing But a Pack of Neurons?
In this paper, Stuart Judge considers whether discoveries in neuroscience that correlate our mental activity with our brain activity…
Richard Dawkins and the Man Delusion
This month England has been taken by storm. Not rain – but riots. Unlike the weather, it came without warning and has left the nation…
Adam and Anthropology
Denis Alexander addresses the theological issues associated with an understanding of Adam who was not the sole genetic ancestor of all of…
Studying ... The Social Sciences?
How do subjects like sociology, human geography and anthropology reveal the wonder and brokenness of human culture?