Mark Alford

and more:

• In a letter published in "Physics Today", Sept 2009 I (along with many others) disagree with David Mermin's May 2009 Reference Frame article in which he advocates a naive form of idealism, apparently without having read any philosophy of science.
• The deep meaning of physics: my views are given in this article, alongside other views with which I strongly disagree.
• Some thoughts on the ground rules that an agnostic uses when reading the Christian Bible.
• My letter on Intelligent Design [scroll to end of page] which was (to my surprise) published by the very conservative Catholic journal First Things.
  
  The editor-in-chief "agrees" with me that "The theory of evolution presented as philosophical materialism or determinism or practical atheism...should not be permitted a monopoly in the classroom". Note the nice slide from "philosophical materialism" which is clearly not science, to "practical atheism" which sounds like a synonym for methodological naturalism, the modus operandi of scientists, detectives, coroners, and others who seek reliable knowledge.
• Question: Why did civilization start everywhere at about the same time?
• Etymologies that I find interesting.
• Isaac Newton.
  Heretic, alchemist, and... treasury official.
• Wittgenstein saves Philosophy from Science. ( Is what I see the same as what you see? )
  Did you read "Godel, Escher, Bach"? Are you afraid that we are all just biological computers, sending each other meaningless messages across a metaphysical internet? Thanks to linguistic philosophy such questions just cease to exist.
• Particle Physics, J. G. Ballard-style.
  J. G. Ballard's world is framed by the shattered windshield. Technology---from cars meeting in a 70 mph kiss to cities infested with a crystalline cancer---gives meaning to the lives of his emotionally autistic characters. He ought to have written about physicists.
• Using melatonin to avoid jet lag