Bruce Charlton's Notions

* For a big chunk of my adult life I was a William James type pragmatist - although I came at it via Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Moto...

* I've just finished a very close and careful re-read of McMurrin's book on Mormon Theology, which I first read, more swiftly, fou...

* Daily blogging has been driven by my need to sort-out certain themes (inititially this was political correctness) - but at present there...

* Yesterday I heard (in private) of yet another example of an eminent scientist who spent several years trying to educate Stephen Jay Goul...

* Q - What do you want? A - I come to bring you the Good News of Jesus Christ. Q - Yeah, I know all that stuff. Look, why are you tell...

* Something I think I perceive widely throughout society, and used to feel myself when an atheist - and still it comes-back at times, is t...

Justin Welby -  Archbishop of Canterbury                                                                                   Wa...

* Some people seem to suppose that misleading others by cunningly-chosen words is not as bad as an outright untruth; but surely deliberate...

 * In 2005 I co-wrote a commentary which argued that the medical research bubble was about to burst: The continual and uninterrupted ex...

* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/at-what-precise-point-did-hobbit-sequel.html *

* In reading The History of Middle Earth , and the early drafts of Lord of the Rings , there are some 'cold sweat moments' when yo...

* Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 - Born in Boston and lived in Concord Massachusetts. Joseph Smith 1805-1844 - Born in Vermont, raised in...

* It seems very probable that general intelligence (or 'genotypic IQ') has declined by more than one standard deviation since l...

* I certainly used to think so - as can be seen from my book of 2000 entitled Psychiatry and the Human Condition , and available at hedweb...

* I believe that, ideally, in a Christian society, Church and State should be one, in harmony - as in Byzantium at its best: there should ...

* There is a tremendous outpouring of arguments in the public arena, emanating mostly from real Christians, which - taken together - demon...

* I acknowledge that no man can judge another's soul - but understanding Christianity does require the teaching and understanding of a...

* I have, and it seems I am stuck with this for good or ill, a scientist's idea of Truth. This means that while I regard Truth as a ...

* Why on earth do people assume , by default, that the leader of a political party represents that party, that he has any real interest i...

* I was suddenly struck by an awareness of the unprecedented extremity of evil among Western leaders - at all levels, but the higher the l...

* C.S Lewis's book Mere Christianity has a reasonable claim to being the most influential book of Christian apologetics of the twentiet...