Bruce Charlton's Notions

* The beginning of the Industrial Revolution was in Britain, and so was the beginning of socialism, communism - political Leftism under its...

* In addition to the problem of mutation accumulation by relaxation of selection, when a population has begun shrinking, as is the case fo...

* The identity of the poor and the nature of poverty both changed utterly at the industrial revolution. In terms of the nature of povert...

* From: http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/2007-fair-conference/2007-spiritual-experiences-as-the-basis-for-belief-an...

* Having recently blogged on the subject: http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/god-and-entropy.html I feel that it would be h...

* Sexual selection is usually a more proximate and often more rapid and powerful mechanism of natural selection than selection based on dif...

* Did God make entropy a law of the known universe, or is entropy prior to God and God constrained by entropy? Could God have made a worl...

* From "Wisdom" in The Great Gift by William Arkle, 1977 http://www.billarkle.co.uk/greatgift/text/wisdom.html My ...

* Continuing from: http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/reconceptualizing-natural-selection-as.html The origin of life is not...

* Continuing from: http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=jehovah I was recently reading Blake Ostler, who is my go-to guy on ...

* Superstitious worry is the fear that, if you stop worrying about bad stuff that might happen, then the bad stuff will happen. Consequen...

* From A Geography of Consciousness (1974) by William Arkle - pages 88-90 The Absolute [Real] Self is in a position... to experience and...

* A lot of modern people find it difficult or even impossible to square the basic and overall nature of Christianity with some descriptions...

Reconceptualizing natural selection as primarily concerned with counteracting entropy (e.g. mutation accumulation) Michael A Woodley and I...

* http://the-doosra.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/saeed-ajmal-banned-by-scyld-berry-in.html Very unfortunate, however, that the occasion should ...

* Some ideas, or notions - from a perspective which sees current arrangements as extremely bad and contributing to vast misery and despair....

* Which is why the mass media is by far the most evil entity which has ever existed. http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/the...

* I had a grim time overall, much like military basic training - but the 1976 summer was the hottest and driest on record, and the photos a...

* I have just re-reread this after a gap of six years, and can confirm that I rate it as one of the best 'children's' fantasy b...

* Note: 'Early' means before 7 am. I had four early morning walks during my recent family holiday to Oxford. Walking in Oxford ca...

* Dairy of Warnie Lewis (C.S. Lewis's brother) for 4 March 1948. Whether from cold, temper, depression, or all three, I had a shocki...