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"01a0c540-a290-7060-b2d4-7cf1011dd0bb", "title": "What the Muslim Council of Britain unfortunately did not say about Louis Smith", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/05/what-the-muslim-council-of-britain-unfortunately-did-not-say-about-louis-smith/", "published_at": "2016-11-05T11:04:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c540-a290-7060-b2d4-7cf10137ba74", "title": "The Southern Poverty Law Center brands Maajid Nawaz an “extremist”", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/the-southern-poverty-law-center-brands-maajid-nawaz-an-extremist/", "published_at": "2016-10-30T11:52:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c540-a290-7060-b2d4-7cf102056a05", "title": "Deathbed conversions and the argument that Christians like best", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/deathbed-conversions-and-the-argument-that-christians-like-best/", "published_at": "2016-06-30T13:01:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c540-a290-7060-b2d4-7cf1024c2177", "title": "Reflections on Brexit and the moral presumption of the EU", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/reflections-on-brexit-and-the-moral-presumption-of-the-eu/", "published_at": "2016-06-27T12:57:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c540-a290-7060-b2d4-7cf1025e2f1e", "title": "The evolutionary argument against moral realism", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/the-evolutionary-argument-against-moral-realism/", "published_at": "2016-03-29T15:12:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c540-a290-7060-b2d4-7cf103567666", "title": "Reductionism and Unity in Science", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/reductionism-and-unity-in-science/", "published_at": "2016-03-15T16:46:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-378c-7104-947e-5d0212e79f35", "title": "Hume’s subjective morality: Making value judgements about value judgements", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/humes-subjective-morality-making-value-judgements-about-value-judgements/", "published_at": "2016-03-11T17:19:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-378c-7104-947e-5d0213db8553", "title": "A “theology of science” debate with Tom McLeish", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/a-theology-of-science-debate-with-tom-mcleish/", "published_at": "2016-03-07T13:35:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-378c-7104-947e-5d0214c33bcc", "title": "On explanations and causality within physics", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/on-explanations-and-causality-within-physics/", "published_at": "2016-03-01T16:57:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-378c-7104-947e-5d0215692861", "title": "Once more on theory and law in science", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/once-more-on-theory-and-law-in-science/", "published_at": "2016-02-10T16:56:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-378c-7104-947e-5d021645cc37", "title": "I get taken to task by Jeffery Jay Lowder over the Cosmological Argument", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/07/i-get-taken-to-task-by-jeffery-jay-lowder-over-the-cosmological-argument/", "published_at": "2016-02-07T11:34:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-378c-7104-947e-5d02171c3360", "title": "On understanding, intuition, and Searle’s Chinese Room", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/on-understanding-intuition-and-searles-chinese-room/", "published_at": "2016-01-19T14:36:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-378c-7104-947e-5d0217b1ed3a", "title": "Nigel Biggar is wrong on Charlie Hebdo and free speech", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/nigel-biggar-is-wrong-on-charlie-hebdo-and-free-speech/", "published_at": "2016-01-11T10:30:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-378c-7104-947e-5d0218a6ee59", "title": "How many Big Bangs? A philosophical argument for a multiverse", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/how-many-big-bangs-a-philosophical-argument-for-a-multiverse/", "published_at": "2015-12-30T15:23:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-378c-7104-947e-5d0219604dcf", "title": "Britain is no more a Christian nation than a White nation", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/27/britain-is-no-more-a-christian-nation-than-a-white-nation/", "published_at": "2015-12-27T14:03:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-378c-7104-947e-5d0219759b3a", "title": "Yes of course “survival of the fittest” is tautological!", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/yes-of-course-survival-of-the-fittest-is-tautological/", "published_at": "2015-12-07T16:33:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c551-d98a-731c-b132-7f9e6bb95271", "title": "Why are we allowing student unions to veto speech?", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/why-are-we-allowing-student-unions-to-veto-speech/", "published_at": "2015-11-30T14:53:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c551-d98a-731c-b132-7f9e6c104068", "title": "No “reasonable accommodation” for religion!", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/no-reasonable-accommodation-for-religion/", "published_at": "2015-10-26T11:16:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c551-d98a-731c-b132-7f9e6c11ddb8", "title": "Contra theologian Roger Trigg on the nature of science", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/contra-theologian-roger-trigg-on-the-nature-of-science/", "published_at": "2015-10-19T14:40:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c551-d98a-731c-b132-7f9e6cc7918c", "title": "There is nothing wrong with morality being subjective!", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/there-is-nothing-wrong-with-morality-being-subjective/", "published_at": "2015-09-29T14:24:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c551-d98a-731c-b132-7f9e6d39c358", "title": "T. H. Huxley, James Clerk Maxwell, and the divorce of science from religion", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/t-h-huxley-james-clerk-maxwell-and-the-divorce-of-science-from-religion/", "published_at": "2015-09-24T13:08:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c551-d98a-731c-b132-7f9e6d57e871", "title": "Critics of the New Atheists and the curious case of Vridar’s Neil Godfrey", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/critics-of-the-new-atheists-and-the-curious-case-of-vridars-neil-godfrey/", "published_at": "2015-09-16T15:27:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c551-d98a-731c-b132-7f9e6de26a0c", "title": "Assisted dying: Whose life is it anyway?", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/assisted-dying-whose-life-is-it-anyway/", "published_at": "2015-09-09T20:36:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c551-d98a-731c-b132-7f9e6e2ebe66", "title": "David Cameron’s speech on “extremism” and segregation", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/david-camerons-speech-on-extremism-and-segregation/", "published_at": "2015-07-25T16:49:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c551-d98a-731c-b132-7f9e6e772bb6", "title": "Debate with Anthony Freeland on Objective Morality: Second Post", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/14/debate-with-anthony-freeland-on-objective-morality-second-post/", "published_at": "2015-07-14T16:15:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c551-d98a-731c-b132-7f9e6f53eb74", "title": "Theos’s Ben Ryan: your attack on free speech is not the answer", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/03/theoss-ben-ryan-your-attack-on-free-speech-is-not-the-answer/", "published_at": "2015-07-03T13:59:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55a-147a-71ea-9fa4-af018c011671", "title": "On objective moral values and duties: A reply to Anthony Freeland", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/on-objective-moral-values-and-duties-a-reply-to-anthony-freeland/", "published_at": "2015-06-30T13:54:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55a-147a-71ea-9fa4-af018c9b8ad5", "title": "On Discovering a Planet and the Art of Writing a Press Release", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/on-discovering-a-planet-and-the-art-of-writing-a-press-release/", "published_at": "2015-06-21T16:43:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55a-147a-71ea-9fa4-af018d1672aa", "title": "What is the point of scientific peer review?", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/what-is-the-point-of-scientific-peer-review/", "published_at": "2015-06-08T15:23:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55a-147a-71ea-9fa4-af018e0a160e", "title": "Basics of scientism: the web of knowledge", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/basics-of-scientism-the-web-of-knowledge/", "published_at": "2015-04-13T16:31:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55a-147a-71ea-9fa4-af018ec72963", "title": "Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joins those trying to silence secularists", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/deputy-prime-minister-nick-clegg-joins-those-trying-to-silence-secularists/", "published_at": "2015-03-20T13:51:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55a-147a-71ea-9fa4-af018f8b93a2", "title": "Are a quarter of British Muslims really extremists?", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/are-a-quarter-of-british-muslims-really-extremists/", "published_at": "2015-02-25T22:54:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55a-147a-71ea-9fa4-af018fcf98c1", "title": "The Chapel Hill shooting, Craig Hicks’s anti-theism, and The Guardian’s biases", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/the-chapel-hill-shooting-craig-hickss-anti-theism-and-the-guardians-biases/", "published_at": "2015-02-16T21:30:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55a-147b-723f-8f04-b70b8a2b0820", "title": "Mainstream Islam is not moderate", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/08/mainstream-islam-is-not-moderate/", "published_at": "2015-02-08T22:05:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55a-147b-723f-8f04-b70b8ad56b3c", "title": "Dear Muslims, about Muhammed cartoons", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/dear-muslims-about-muhammed-cartoons/", "published_at": "2015-01-19T13:09:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55a-147b-723f-8f04-b70b8b985175", "title": "Je Suis Charlie: the moral duty to draw Mohammed", "url": "https://coelsblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/je-suis-charlie-the-moral-duty-to-draw-mohammed/", "published_at": "2015-01-11T16:17:55+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

If you don’t accept a multiverse then you’re not thinking scientifically original ↗

1 May 2026

The case against reparations for slavery and colonialism original ↗

25 Mar 2026

Why do people still not know about genes?original ↗

6 Mar 2026

Science can address meaning and purpose original ↗

18 Feb 2026

2025

God does not belong in a science class original ↗

28 Nov 2025

Is the dimethyl sulphide in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b real?original ↗

4 Jun 2025

Barnard’s Star is orbited by four small, rocky planets original ↗

28 Mar 2025

Estimates of the heritability of intelligence do include gene–environment interactions original ↗

10 Mar 2025

Contra Michael Shermer, facts and reason cannot determine values and morals original ↗

4 Mar 2025

GWAS studies underestimate the heritability of intelligence original ↗

13 Jan 2025

2024

Misinformation and the cost of smoking original ↗

10 Dec 2024

Did Aboriginal Australians predict solar eclipses?original ↗

6 May 2024

2023

Humanists UK demands a blasphemy law original ↗

27 Sept 2023

The proper scope of academic freedom original ↗

12 Sept 2023

Confusion over causation, both top-down and bottom-up original ↗

29 Aug 2023

What counts as evidence? Or why Bayesian analysis of religion convinces no-one.original ↗

22 Aug 2023

Neutral standards for advertisers are not a blasphemy law original ↗

15 Jan 2023

2022

Human brains have to be deterministic (though indeterminism would not give us free will anyhow)original ↗

16 Mar 2022

Confusion about free will, reductionism and emergence original ↗

14 Feb 2022

Why did Psychology Today publish woo?original ↗

9 Jan 2022

Is science “plagued” by “rife” harassment and discrimination?original ↗

2 Jan 2022

2021

Replying to Adam Frank and defending scientism original ↗

29 Dec 2021

Here’s GJ 367b, an iron planet smaller and denser than Earth original ↗

9 Dec 2021

Everything arises bottom-up original ↗

7 Jul 2021

Edinburgh University should value academic enquiry above ideology original ↗

16 Jan 2021

Does quantum indeterminism defeat reductionism?original ↗

11 Jan 2021

2020

2020: A tale of two deaths original ↗

31 Dec 2020

Science does not rest on metaphysical assumptions original ↗

29 Dec 2020

Eddington did indeed validate Einstein at the 1919 eclipse original ↗

19 Dec 2020

Definitions, loyalty oaths, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia original ↗

8 Dec 2020

Is peer review biased against women?original ↗

14 Aug 2020

Are predictions an essential part of science?original ↗

12 Aug 2020

Scientism: Part 4: Reductionism original ↗

22 Jan 2020

Science Unlimited, Part Three: Philosophy original ↗

6 Jan 2020

2019

Why do morals need to be justified?original ↗

27 Dec 2019

Twitter bans, misgendering and free speech original ↗

4 Oct 2019

Moral realism versus hypothetical imperatives original ↗

10 Apr 2019

Science Unlimited, Part Two: The Humanities original ↗

4 Jan 2019

2018

The European Court guts free-speech protections original ↗

28 Oct 2018

Science Unlimited, Part One: Pseudoscience original ↗

20 Sept 2018

Does the problem of induction defeat scientism?original ↗

20 Aug 2018

Theos Think Tank have been polling about religious violence original ↗

30 Jul 2018

On Michael Shermer’s defence of moral realism original ↗

4 May 2018

NASA launches satellite ‘TESS’ in hunt for exoplanets original ↗

16 Apr 2018

“Sharing Reality” and how to persuade people original ↗

13 Feb 2018

The cosmological multiverse and falsifiability in science original ↗

22 Jan 2018

How not to defend humanistic reasoning original ↗

3 Jan 2018

2017

Human rights rest only on human advocacy original ↗

13 Dec 2017

Another philosopher of science doesn’t understand science original ↗

10 Nov 2017

Science is a product of science!original ↗

7 Nov 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions scores 8 out of 20 on Religious Freedom original ↗

8 Oct 2017

Should Nobel Prizes go to teams?original ↗

4 Oct 2017

On Title IX, sexual misconduct, logical fallacies, and due process versus ideology original ↗

25 Sept 2017

What Christians believe about evolution and the supposed naivety of atheists original ↗

19 Sept 2017

Alex Rosenberg’s Guide to Reality and morality under scientism original ↗

3 Aug 2017

Fundamental ontology: what is the universe actually made of?original ↗

31 Jul 2017

Trinity Lutheran Church vs Comer and the free exercise of religion original ↗

27 Jun 2017

Tim Farron’s resignation does not reveal secular intolerance original ↗

17 Jun 2017

The CARM rejection of subjective morality original ↗

20 Mar 2017

The Second Law of Thermodynamics made easy original ↗

6 Mar 2017

Can we please distinguish between speech and actions?original ↗

27 Feb 2017

On Stephen Law on Scientism original ↗

13 Feb 2017

Telling science from pseudoscience and the demarcation problem original ↗

13 Jan 2017

2016

Lamenting the reburial of ancient bones original ↗

16 Dec 2016

What the Muslim Council of Britain unfortunately did not say about Louis Smith original ↗

5 Nov 2016

The Southern Poverty Law Center brands Maajid Nawaz an “extremist”original ↗

30 Oct 2016

Deathbed conversions and the argument that Christians like best original ↗

30 Jun 2016

Reflections on Brexit and the moral presumption of the EU original ↗

27 Jun 2016

The evolutionary argument against moral realism original ↗

29 Mar 2016

Reductionism and Unity in Science original ↗

15 Mar 2016

Hume’s subjective morality: Making value judgements about value judgements original ↗

11 Mar 2016

A “theology of science” debate with Tom McLeish original ↗

7 Mar 2016

On explanations and causality within physics original ↗

1 Mar 2016

Once more on theory and law in science original ↗

10 Feb 2016

I get taken to task by Jeffery Jay Lowder over the Cosmological Argument original ↗

7 Feb 2016

On understanding, intuition, and Searle’s Chinese Room original ↗

19 Jan 2016

Nigel Biggar is wrong on Charlie Hebdo and free speech original ↗

11 Jan 2016

2015

How many Big Bangs? A philosophical argument for a multiverse original ↗

30 Dec 2015

Britain is no more a Christian nation than a White nation original ↗

27 Dec 2015

Yes of course “survival of the fittest” is tautological!original ↗

7 Dec 2015

Why are we allowing student unions to veto speech?original ↗

30 Nov 2015

No “reasonable accommodation” for religion!original ↗

26 Oct 2015

Contra theologian Roger Trigg on the nature of science original ↗

19 Oct 2015

There is nothing wrong with morality being subjective!original ↗

29 Sept 2015

T. H. Huxley, James Clerk Maxwell, and the divorce of science from religion original ↗

24 Sept 2015

Critics of the New Atheists and the curious case of Vridar’s Neil Godfrey original ↗

16 Sept 2015

Assisted dying: Whose life is it anyway?original ↗

9 Sept 2015

David Cameron’s speech on “extremism” and segregation original ↗

25 Jul 2015

Debate with Anthony Freeland on Objective Morality: Second Post original ↗

14 Jul 2015

Theos’s Ben Ryan: your attack on free speech is not the answer original ↗

3 Jul 2015

On objective moral values and duties: A reply to Anthony Freeland original ↗

30 Jun 2015

On Discovering a Planet and the Art of Writing a Press Release original ↗

21 Jun 2015

What is the point of scientific peer review?original ↗

8 Jun 2015

Basics of scientism: the web of knowledge original ↗

13 Apr 2015

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joins those trying to silence secularists original ↗

20 Mar 2015

Are a quarter of British Muslims really extremists?original ↗

25 Feb 2015

The Chapel Hill shooting, Craig Hicks’s anti-theism, and The Guardian’s biases original ↗

16 Feb 2015

Mainstream Islam is not moderate original ↗

8 Feb 2015

Dear Muslims, about Muhammed cartoons original ↗

19 Jan 2015

Je Suis Charlie: the moral duty to draw Mohammed original ↗

11 Jan 2015