Tag Archives: Science

The Force of Scepticism Grows

Posted on Thursday, 18 February, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have already written on this subject, and I remind the reader that for me, scepticism means having an open mind because truth, which is transcendent, cannot always be perfectly known. You are most welcome to peruse my old articles … Continue reading →

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Fair Discussion and Heterodoxy

Posted on Tuesday, 3 November, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Exactly like at the time of the first lockdown, I am dismayed about how eminent experts on epidemics and viruses are shouted down and subject to ad hominem attacks, especially with political overtones. I already wrote a couple of articles, … Continue reading →

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Science or Ideology?

Posted on Sunday, 24 May, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am quite amazed to see people floundering in the present crisis, as I find myself doing so myself. We are victims of propaganda and half-truths, even to ideologies and discourses that are hardly more sophisticated than those of Goebbels … Continue reading →

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The Science Delusion

Posted on Friday, 2 August, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have always been fascinated by the sciences, coming as I do from a scientific and rational family background. My scientific education at school was entirely based on Newton’s laws and the mechanistic notion of the universe and life as … Continue reading →

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Dan Brown’s “Origin”

Posted on Wednesday, 2 May, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My visit to England gave me plenty of time for reading Dan Brown’s new novel Origin. My attention was drawn to it by learning that it featured the Palmar de Troya cult in Spain, something that always attracted my curiosity … Continue reading →

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Hans Asperger – Nazi Collaborator

Posted on Thursday, 19 April, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I was given a reference to a press article saying that an Austrian medical historian by the name of Herwig Czech has published Hans Asperger, National Socialism, and “race hygiene” in Nazi-era Vienna. This directly contradicts my earlier posting Hans Asperger … Continue reading →

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Possibility Consciousness

Posted on Thursday, 12 April, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have come into contact with a most interesting gentleman by the name of Peter Rhodes-Dimmer. Some years ago, he bought the Chateau de Bambecq in French Flanders, near St Omer, and began to build up an ambitious humanist and … Continue reading →

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Foundationalism and Consciousness

Posted on Thursday, 5 April, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In the 1790’s in deep Saxony, philosophers were discussing the question of first principles, of foundations of knowledge, to answer the question of what is the truth that makes human reasoning possible. Today, we will certainly ask ourselves why intelligent … Continue reading →

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More on Godless Progress

Posted on Thursday, 15 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My brother in the priesthood Fr Jonathan Munn has summed things up rather well in The Lie of Progress. I posted a comment there, which I quote here (with a couple of slight tweaks): Ideas are converging because you and … Continue reading →

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They call this science?

Posted on Wednesday, 14 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

  What would you say if someone told you they could kill you, embalm your brain and upload its memories to a computer? A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”. Nectome will preserve your brain, … Continue reading →

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