Why reasoning skills are becoming survival skills. On conspiracy thinking, the scientific method, what AI changes about truth, and why critical thinking should be taught like mathematics.

How a random astronomy club night led to a journal paper. And why, despite that, I remain deeply sceptical about Mars colonisation — on biological, economic, and philosophical grounds.

The honest admission of not knowing is considerably more interesting than a confident answer that doesn't withstand examination. On the first cause, causation before time, and why "God did it" is no answer at all.

ID is not an alternative framework of equal standing — it is the absence of a framework dressed in scientific language. On falsifiability, irreducible complexity, and why the distinction matters.

Unde malum — whence evil? One of the oldest questions in philosophy and theology. The free will defence, natural evil, Augustine's absence-of-good, and the secular account.

The question is not whether faith and reason can coexist — they clearly can. The question is what we do when they conflict, and which starting assumptions we're entitled to treat as minimal.