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2 Apr 2007: For here he is not ‘at home’and has to encounter values alien to those of the Sandemanianismthat ruled supreme in his private rooms.

2 Apr 2007: Everyone knows that people do notregard belief in God as belonging to the same category as thesechildish beliefs. ... The moral point is, of course, much more serious. Everyonewould agree that some religious people do some very disturbingthings.

29 Mar 2007: The call appears narrow – God’s intention at creation nowapplies to one man and his descendants, but the promise shows thatit is part of God’s purpose for ‘all the peoples ... as people see them, using ‘the language of appearance’. So,

2 Apr 2007: There are people, often from a pagan or neo-pagan religious position, who have intrinsic objections to the wholeidea of moving genes. ... This raises thepossibility of small numbers of wealthy people buying enhance-ment for their children, but there

2 Apr 2007: displaced. There will also be impacts from extreme events. The extremelyunusual heat wave in central Europe during the summer of 2003 ledto the deaths of over 20,000 people. ... goals. Reaching out for such goalscould lead to nations and peoples working

26 Jun 2007: Darwinian insight had taken away the force of theold style design argument for the existence of God, pursued in thepast by people such as John Ray and William Paley. ... Some people were then led to define a Strong AnthropicPrinciple (SAP), alleging that

2 Apr 2007: Insteadit is often the case that people try and use the prestige of science, inparticular its ‘Grand Theories’, to support their particular ideology.The fact that Darwinian evolution, for example, has ... Many of the naturalphilosophers who played

2 Apr 2007: Two Christian thinkers, CharlesKingsley and Frederick Temple, soon coined a phrase that neatlyencapsulates how religious people should think about an evolvingworld.

2 Apr 2007: This convention enables people ofall faiths and none to work together on the common scientific enter-prise.

29 Mar 2007: Human evolution?For religious people, the possibility of human beings evolving from‘lower’ forms is a key reason for rejecting the whole notion of evo-lution.