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16 juillet 2013

BIG BANGS

Bastille Day, the French National Holiday, is celebrated in Biarritz by popular music concerts, old fogies dancing to accordeon music, a lot of late-night drinking by younger generations and an 11 p.m. festival of fireworks to rival the best that Sydney...
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Tags: Cosmology,  Supernovae,  the Glory of God

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11 juillet 2013

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL ...

... but big, astronomically BIG, is incomprehensible. I have already, in the book "From Illusions to Illumination" (pp. 181-187), expressed my amazement at the beauty and size of the universe (not to say the multiverse). Not so long ago in human history,...
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7 juillet 2013

A MIDSUMMER DAY'S DREAM

I have never been a Man for All Seasons. In Australia we used to say that we had only two, the wet and the dry. We may have preferred February to August, but even the latter was never the Winter of any particular discontent. Up Over, here in Europe, I...
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Tags: God and atheism,  Lucidity,  Luck,  Misfortune

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7 juillet 2013

SUICIDE IN THE CATHEDRAL

The suicide in Notre Dame de Paris, May 21, 2013, will soon be forgotten, unlike a certain murder in the Cathedral of Canterbrury on December 2, 1170. Archbishop Thomas Beckett died in his empty cathedral at the hand of four knights of King Henry 2. Dominique...
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2 juillet 2013

"DITES, SI C'ETAIT VRAI ..."

They used to call him, because he had been brought up in Brussels in Belgium as a bourgeois believer, the "Abbé Brel". The lyrics Jacques Brel wrote for many of his best ballads often made reference to the Catholic religion he had long since rejected....
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1 juillet 2013

"ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON !"

Mr Holmes always found enough indisputable evidence to solve the mystery and prove the guilt of even the craftiest of criminals. He made it seem easy, obvious, elementary. We accept all sorts of things without proof. Besides subjects of debate and controversy...
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