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Tallis in Wonderland

Excusing God

Raymond Tallis highlights the problem of evil.

This is the third time in this column I have written about – or more specifically, criticised – Philip Goff’s ideas. In Issue 135, I demonstrated (at least to my own satisfaction) that panpsychism, as set out in Professor Goff’s 2019 book Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness, did not make sense. Then in Issue 162, I argued against the claim advanced in his Why? The Purpose of the Universe (2023) that the intrinsic improbability of a planet able to support life was evidence for a cosmic purpose. Now I am at it again. You may think that this amounts to literary stalking, or even persecution.

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