Paul Whelan

(Once or twice recently I've used this blog like a journal, an aide memoire, to note something that I'd realised, concluded or decid...

If the Universe is infinite, which can never be ruled out, it must contain infinite possibilities, in which case the emergence of oceans or ...

Dear Paul, Yesterday, I told the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester that we must not abandon the shared laws of Europe. We cann...

  I can see myself still, 17 or 18, walking on to the school playground from 'the field' - the boys' football pitch alongside th...

  There’s even a famous song about it existing, from the movie Casablanca , and everyone knows the movie Casablanca. We humans know that ...

  Around 1620, a genius called Rene Descartes reasoned, 'I think, therefore I am'. He may have said it in French, 'Je pense, don...

It's our call. There it is. If Heaven isn't the answer, we've got to find it on Earth. What have we got? Three things are clear....

"God doesn't exist." "Yes, He does. He created everything." "Watch your pronouns!  No, she didn't. Evolutio...

  The law can 'decide' the question of whether POTUS has the 'power' to impose tariffs but cannot settle the issue.  That ...

As you'll remember (I wrote to a friend who'd asked if I knew Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben ), I first heard the usual pairi...

  Why do humans have morals, a sense of right and wrong? Humans have at least three explanations. Leave out the one that says there is no ri...

Just so everyone's clear, science is talking probabilities, not preaching the 'truth'. You hear only about the scientific 't...

Although I thought I'd been clear  in the first part of this , someone who read it suggested I wanted to 'sit on the fence' ... ...

  Some suggest it's a low IQ. But what's a high IQ? Ability to do IQ tests, or to have doubts about IQ tests and skip them to do som...

The question does not require a discussion of particle physics or materiality. And let us not start by saying God does not exist because sci...

"You're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone...

It's not just about policy, is it - about tariffs, about insisting the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America and annexing Canada? That...

They never did. People want certainty, which is why we have habits and rituals, why there are schedules and insurance companies and more con...

. It was a challenge to me on an internet site. One answer is that if a reality 'out there' is only speculation, then that there is ...

A proper understanding of history must begin with human psychology, mustn't it, with understanding the minds of those involved in it? So...

Some years ago I wrote an article  suggesting the answer lay with you – and with all of us – personally. Was that reasonable, is it now? Sin...

                     Newspaper headline after Trump's combative Inaugural Address Friend and foe know Donald Trump can talk alright. He ...

Following her party's devastating electoral defeat this month, Ms Kemi Badenoch is running for the Conservative leadership later this ye...

If God did not create the Universe, then something else did. Think about it.  The only possible alternative is the Universe created itself. ...

  My belief - perhaps it has become or will become one day my firm conclusion: it will certainly disappoint some of my readers now - is that...

We've all heard about our genes. Genetics is the science of genes, their structure, function and the not quite perfect way they transmit...

Come what may, God is with you. Even as the Universe evolves (see About genes, science ,   the Universe, evolution, God and all that stuff...

We've all heard about our genes. Genetics is the science of genes, their structure, function and the not quite perfect way they transmit...

Journalists, even when partisan in the name of freedom of speech, still like to say they are after the truth. That may well be honest in t...