Author Archives: Graham Veale

Some Quick Thoughts on SCOTUS and Marriage

Now that the American Supreme Court has mandated all 50 states to redefine marriage, Northern Ireland  seems to be the only patch of territory in the North Atlantic which does not legally recognise same-sex marriages. It would be easy to declare ourselves besieged by secularism and to issue dire apocalyptic warnings.

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Who Designed the Designer?

This is a longer, more detailed version of New Atheism’s Undead  Arguments.   It is often casually assumed that the design argument fails because God would be more complex than anything he created. This critique of the design argument, developed by Hume and popularised by Dawkins, depends on several flawed presuppositions.  

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