R.J. Hogarth's Blog

The author is pleased to announce that From Dust to DNA was launched today.   The book tells an exciting story and at the same time answers the hard questions of life to bring hope. Please enjoy the book!   Sincerely RJ Hogarth

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On the front cover of David Hand’s book  The Improbability Principle there is a drawing of lightning striking someone twice. In his book, the author expounds the principle that events which seems so improbable as to be impossible do happen but when they do happen it is because “we got things wrong”  or that there

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In From Dust to DNA a near death experience (NDE) affects one of the characters and the significance of NDEs is critically examined.     The primary question surrounding NDEs is whether it is a spiritual experience pointing to existence of God or whether it is a psychological experience based on the biochemistry of our brain. Arguments

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In Shakespeare’s  The Tempest  Prospero uses his magic to carve paradise out of an island of  chaos and evil , to bring up his daughter as a good, kind and sensitive human being and to bring about other wondrous changes.    Prospero has been seen as some type of moral engineer changing evil into good

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Consider the Butterfly Effect.   That is,  a butterfly flapping in South America can cause a storm in Tokyo (or slight changes to an initial state can produce huge “ripple” effects).    A movie was written about it showing what happens when events are changed and the ripple effects that can follow. Human interactions are often chaotic and

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If God exists then why does not God intervene to stop evil acts or relieve suffering?    Some of the most frustrating periods of this so called silence of God must have been terrible wars, genocide, natural disasters, suffering, hunger and so on. What are the main considerations for God’s intervention to stop evil and suffering

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If God exists why allow evil and suffering in the world?     I think it all starts with Einstein’s famous statement  “What interests me is whether God had any choice in the way he made the world.”    The elephant in the room is why didn’t God make a perfect world where there was no suffering.     The

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DNA is unbelievably unique – it is far beyond anything else that naturally forms.    It’s ability to hold information – the genetic code, for instance,  is said to be the equivalent of holding one trillion CDs of information.  Not bad for rocks being mixed in a mud pool (or a few steps after that as

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After Darwin the theory of intelligent design emerged which proposed that features such as the eye could not have evolved solely with Darwin’s evolutionary processes.   However,  the arguments for and against this theory have not really been conclusive so I have looked elsewhere for answers. Now there is some beautiful scientific work that has been

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Professor Stephen Hawking now says that ‘no , prior to the big bang there was no time and therefore cause and effect is not needed when there is no time.’     It follows , says Hawking, that you don’t need a cause for the big bang and therefore you don’t need a God.  In other words

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