is god real?

I've moved the igr website and blog so that everything is contained on one site with a new URL. And I've started a second blog ...

For most people throughout the world and throughout time, being good has been related to belief in God. God defined what is good and evil, a...

I have twice before ( here and here ) blogged about my favourite band at the moment, The Middle East. I am now devastated to report they ha...

'Sea Change' was a popular Aussie TV series a few years back, in which a city lawyer quit her job and opted for the supposedly more ...

If you want to check out well-prepared and easy-to-read arguments for the existence of God, I recommend Existence of God . Tim was an athe...

People may hold their political, religious or ethical beliefs for all sorts of reasons, but we all like to think that we are very rational i...

Australia is currently engaged in (or suffering under?) a political debate on how we should address the issue of climate change. It isn'...

Among many of the more militant atheists, there are a number of common claims made about religion. Some are fair, some are not, but they hav...

David Sloan Wilson is an eminent evolutionary biologist at Binghamton University in New York. He is an atheist "but a nice atheist...

A long time ago I read a book which (primarily) examined a bunch of Biblical prophecies which had come true in verifiable history, and attem...

The percentage of people believing in God is always of interest to me. What is the latest?

We all like to think we make good choices for good reasons. Those who believe in God like to think they are right in their belief, whereas a...

It is an interesting headline. "Jesus: a prophet of Islam" And it will be coming to a billboard or two in Sydney. I wonder what...

John Carroll is an interesting man. He is Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, and a secular humanist who believes se...

"There are many problems in today’s society that cannot be resolved by the application of reason, logic or medical science." So s...

One hundred years ago, this day, my father was born in Richmond in Melbourne.

A reader drew my attention to this brief debate on this topic, in which well-known atheist Sam Harris made the statement: "We have C...

The death of Osama bin Laden is now old news. The US Government's wish to eliminate him is understandable. Whether it will change the te...

What evidence would it take for you to believe a miracle had occurred? Do you think it would make a difference if it happened to you? Lisa...

I seem to becoming a fan club for cosmologist Martin Rees. I have previously written about his open-mindedness and the criticisms he has re...