Is the ‘Passion Translation’ actually a translation at all?
I spent most of March this year investigating Brian Simmons’ claims to be translating from Aramaic in certain verses of the holy scriptures….
Huxley’s early opposition to ‘progressive development’ (part 2 of series)
I left off my last post halfway through an introduction to Thomas Huxley’s positive review of Origin of Species in The Times of 26 November 1859….
Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’ under fire and defended (part 1)
In my last posts I have been highlighting the fact that Darwin’s theory of evolution ascribed the origin of the first one or…
Is there a fact, or a shadow of a fact?
In my last post I looked at a review (pp 417-9) by anatomist and palaeontologist Richard Owen of a book by William Carpenter about…
Deep sea slime and ooze: did life emerge there?
In my last post, I described the account Darwin gave in his Origin of Species of the initial appearance of life on earth….
Darwin on the horns of a dilemma: how did life begin?
How did we come to be here? Did God create us out of nothing, or did we evolve from inanimate matter by natural…