Past examples of climate change?

By Warren Nunn When considering the scientific suggestion that humans are a major cause of what is being called climate change, can we learn anything from what happened in the past? Some people won’t even discuss possible other explanations and/or alternative...

Does religion or science most benefit humankind?

Warren Nunn Religion? Science? Science or religion? Which one requires most faith? Back in March 1900, about 20 men gathered in the English county of Hertfordshire—probably at St Albans about 40 km (25 miles) from London—for a debate on the topic “Has science or...

Dogmatic science

Dogmatism is real. We can all have it. Back more than a century ago, when civil debate graced our newspapers, it was refreshing to read reasoned essays such as that that follows. Titled “The dogmatism of science” it appeared in the Spectator of 17 December...