22 Apr, 2012
INTRODUCTION The following are the notes I used for my presentation to the Atheist Society on “The Emotional Brain” on 12 July 2005 at the Trades Hall, Carlton. BIOGRAPHY I have no tertiary science qualifications. I did well in science at school and...
22 Apr, 2012
Ours was not a religious family – I write of the 1920’s and 1930’s. For a start, my father was an atheist. He did not drum atheism into his children’s heads, though. On the other hand, the drumming of religious belief into the heads of...
22 Apr, 2012
We are aware that we live in a material world with finite resources. We are born almost without knowledge and have to acquire it through our five senses. Every problem or difficulty we encounter or observe must be solved by human thought and endeavour. There is...
22 Apr, 2012
Our one and only home, planet earth, is under human attack as never before. Orbiting space-craft witness and record the decimation of its smoke-hazed forests, changing temperatures in its oceans, the melting of its ice-caps, the chemical assault on its...
22 Apr, 2012
Primitive humanity used stick, stone and fire technology for thousands of years before Judaism, Christianity and Islam was invented. In some regions this primitive albeit efficient survival technology continued into recent history. Science and technology as we...
