< The earth from space.>

Around half a century ago when I was in my teens, I was interested in Christianity and biology - still am - though I soon came to realise that the cosmology of Christianity and related religions is trivial and unconvincing.

Like many other people, I'd like to try to make some sense of the world and of the human condition before I die, even though I know that this is a hopeless aspiration.

Real knowledge is elusive and hard to come by. Anybody who feels certainty for anything concerning the nature of the world and our place in it, is in my view inevitably under a delusion.

Many centuries ago Socrates, that great Greek thinker, said that if he was a wise man, it was because he knew enough to know that he knew nothing.

Unfortunately, despite the successes of the scientific method, this is still the reality of the human condition today.

The menu links from this page contain a few jottings into this darkness. Some are more biologically orientated than others. I'd be delighted if anybody chose to start a dialogue on any of this on my comments page. So far nobody has. (The overwhelming majority of the hits on this site are for the walks of course).