HerbieP

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HerbieP wrote God as a dentist
I know that this is an extreme but it seems little different to any other supernatural: claim   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBquNDk_dU8&feature=email   God rains gold dust on co... Read More 
HerbieP wrote Preaching/teaching
I spent nine years going to lectures at university. During those lectures no one tried to convince me of anything. They generally took the form of a bored lecturer getting through his notes for th... Read More 
HerbieP wrote Design critique
Let’s suppose that a transcendent deity 'designed' and created the universe for the sole purpose of populating it with beings 'in his own image' and interacting with them, acting on an impulse som... Read More 
HerbieP wrote The power of prayer
Today I heard Christians on the radio praying for those affected by swine flue.   I'm curious about prayers of supplication and wonder what purpose believers think they have. Presumably god... Read More 
HerbieP wrote The nature of belief
I'm trying to understand what people mean when they say that they believe something. If you drop an object you might express your expectation that it would fall to the ground as a belief. Such a ... Read More 

About HerbieP

HerbieP

As a young man I studied theoretical physics for a number of years but I have had no more than an amateur interest since and would not claim to have kept up with recent developments. My longest stretch in settling to anything was as an artist. A generous person would now regard me as a renaissance man, a shrewd one would recognise a dilettante.

I am married with two children and live for the most part in rural Suffolk, England, on a plot shared with horses and chickens.

I now work for an old endowed charity, manipulating assets to achieve the best return and trying to develop innovative and effective ways to distribute the funds to the least fortunate.