Mathematics

I was going to incorporate into this post a little summary of various (lack of) religious positions, and how I would plot them on a sort of system of Cartesian space to illustrate my problem with various labels that I might consider using. Unfortunately the key to such a post would be in the actual illustration of the points in the space, the problem with this being that it is 1am and I have no experience using computers to produce mathematical diagrams, and I don't want to learn now.

I hope to get such a post up soon, when I have the patience to produce such a diagram.

For the meantime, I will just write a little about a part of myself that I only became truly aware of in the process of thinking about mathematical plotting of religion. The crux of the matter is this: I am simultaneously both fascinated by, and quite bored by mathematics. This apparent contradiction has been of a slight concern to me, but I mostly put it out of my head. I am concerned no longer, because I believe I have worked out how to differentiate what interests me and what puts me to sleep.

Hello everyone (more like anyone?)

Just rediscovered this bloggety thing, after having written my previous post on Leigh Sales' book, I was looking for somewhere to publish it on the web. And here seemed like a fairly natural place to put it.

I hope to put some more stuff up here with some sort of frequency in the future. Until then... find something better to do than reading blogs :-P

I read a book on doubt, and wrote about it, on climate change and atheism

I recently read a very little book by Leigh Sales (co-host of Lateline), it was a very interesting read, and I absolutely recommend you read it. It is entitled On Doubt and surprisingly enough it’s all about doubt. She says many intelligent thoughtful things on what she sees as the lack of doubt on anyone’s behalf in the media, politics and culture of today. Now, although I agree with her on almost all of what she has to say, I’m afraid I’m about to launch into just what’s wrong with her book. I hope you’ll forgive me, but there’s not really much to say when you agree with someone.