The house on fire By Greg Spearritt Queensland’s Parliament House has recently been the scene of a protest, for which action those protesting have been hauled before a court. (There’s some doubt about the validity of the alleged offence, however.) These are not, by...
A cosmos with purpose? By Greg Spearritt Philip Goff, Professor of Philosophy at Durham University UK, suggests in his new book Why? The Purpose of the Universe (2023) that the notion of a purposeful cosmos can be defended not just philosophically, but scientifically....
Resentment By Greg Spearritt A sentiment that comes up repeatedly in the Voice debate is resentment at the apparent ‘privileges’ given to First Nations Australians. The proposed Voice is seen as (‘yet another’) example of “special treatment”. Paul Kelly belled the cat...
Good news on A.I. By Glen Beasley Issues surrounding A.I. appear in news and current affairs programs on an almost daily basis – will artificial intelligence be a force for good, or will it eventually lead to the destruction of human kind? I guess we could ask the...
Which Jesus? By Greg Spearritt In my ‘reading the bible as literature’ course late last century we were presented with the outrageous proposition that a text has no meaning save that which the reader brings to it. ‘What did the author intend?’ is therefore a pointless...
