My favourite novels of ideas have just been listed on Book DNA. bookdna.com/best-books/n...

My latest blog post - a critical examination of memes that suggest the story of Jesus is based on pagan myths. paulclark42.com/2026/06/29/i...

My latest blog post - a critical examination of memes that suggest the story of Jesus is based on pagan myths. paulclark42.com/2026/06/29/i...

Today is your last chance to buy The Omega Course for 99p or 99c. books2read.com/omega-amazon

The New Statesman cover this week is priceless

I’m feeling a mixture of hope and trepidation this morning. Andy Burnham may be Britain’s last chance to avoid going down the Trumpian road with that grifter Farage. Come on Andy!

Years ago I read Tom Holland’s book “Rubicon”, about Julius Caesar. He says war and loot made people like Pompey and Caesar so rich that the republic couldn’t contain them. And now we have our first trillionaire. Democracy won’t be able to contain him. These people need taking down.

The Omega Course just got a five-star review on Book Commentary. "This story delivers everything I look for in a book: superior storytelling, crisp writing, and pulsating drama. It excites the mind and entertains the heart. "

I've just signed "Back the National Commission Amendment" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/nc... @OpenBritainHQ

My latest book review: Battle of the Big Bang. paulclark42.com/2026/05/10/r...

My latest blog post - Did the Exodus really happen? Spoiler alert - no. paulclark42.com/2026/04/07/d...

My latest blog post - Did the Exodus really happen? Spoiler alert - no. paulclark42.com/2026/04/07/d...

Why is Britain allowing the US to use our territory to launch attacks when Trump is threatening genocide? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

On this Easter Sunday, perhaps a good time to ask whether the Biblical accounts of the resurrection are reliable. Spoiler alert - no. paulclark42.com/2024/07/22/t...

As Easter Sunday approaches, it's a good time to ask: was there an empty tomb? Spoiler alert: we have no way of knowing if there was a tomb. Even if there was, and even if it was empty, there are plenty of explanations that don't involve a resurrection. paulclark42.com/2024/06/25/e...

As Easter Sunday approaches, it's a good time to ask: was there an empty tomb? Spoiler alert: we have no way of knowing if there was a tomb. Even if there was, and even if it was empty, there are plenty of explanations that don't involve a resurrection. paulclark42.com/2024/06/25/e...

Not a paragraph I was expecting to read while eating my breakfast this morning. I mean, how did he acquire it in the first place?

Just spotted a great review of my novel The Omega Course on Goodreads.

Family members can be very helpful when writing a scene outside your area of expertise. My eldest has had training in counselling, so when I wrote a scene where my MC has counselling, I sent it to her. I needed 3 rewrites before she said it was realistic enough www.amazon.co.uk/Omega-Course...

The ontological argument isn't as dumb as many atheists assume. But does it really prove the existence of God? (Spoiler alert - no.) paulclark42.com/2024/05/08/o...

Write about what you know, they say. In my working life, I spent somef time dealing with the police, mostly helping students who'd been mugged/flashed at. As I helped them make statements, I notliced many police have poor spelling. So this is in two of my books:

1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause. 2. The universe began to exist. 3. Therefore the universe has a cause and that cause is God. NOT SO FAST! Every one of these statements is open to challenge. paulclark42.com/2024/06/12/k...

Turns out most members of Reform UK are a bunch of racists. Gosh. Who would have thought it? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is Ross, protagonist of my novel The Omega Course, tormented by the fact that he has caused an accident in which another driver died.

Satan is an attempt to solve the problem of evil by giving God an antagonist. This was projected onto The Satan, one of God's lackeys in the Hebrew Bible. As for Lucifer's rebellion, it's just a Jewish take on a pagan legend about the planet Venus. paulclark42.com/2025/08/04/t...

An excerpt from The Omega Course. Ross is going home from the police station after being informed that the driver who was injured in the accident he caused has died. www.amazon.co.uk/Omega-Course...

Jorge Luis Borges wrote a brilliant short story about what a curse immortality would be. Anyone who looks forward to an afterlife stretching trillions of years into eternity would do well to read it. lecturia.org/en/short-sto...

I've just signed "Back the National Commission Amendment" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/nc... @OpenBritainHQ

The inciting incident in The Omega Course is a traffic accident. I drew on something that happened in real life - I was once about to overtake when I looked in my mirror and was shocked to see another car overtaking me at speed. What if I hadn't looked in the mirror?

I started blogging seriously in early 2024, mostly looking at religious issues from a not-very-rabid atheist point of view. Mostly, I do it for the pleasure of exploring a question and learning more about it. Here's one I did on the fine tuning argument. paulclark42.com/2024/05/18/d...

I started blogging seriously in early 2024, mostly looking at religious issues from a not-very-rabid atheist point of view. Mostly, I do it for the pleasure of exploring a question and learning more about it. Here's one I did on the fine tuning argument. paulclark42.com/2024/05/18/d...

My novel The Omega Course isn't a romantic novel, but if your protagonist is a 17-year-old, affairs of the heart are going to be part of the story. And maybe some of my regrets from that time will inform my writing... www.amazon.co.uk/Omega-Course...

My novel The Omega Course isn't a romantic novel, but if your protagonist is a 17-year-old, affairs of the heart are going to be part of the story. And maybe some of my regrets from that time will inform my writing... www.amazon.co.uk/Omega-Course...

One of my blog posts that gets most hits is "Has anyone ever been killed in the name of atheism?" It comes up on page one on Google. Though I am an atheist, I say that yes, an awful lot of people have been murdered in the name of atheism. paulclark42.com/2023/06/16/h...

One of my blog posts that gets most hits is "Has anyone ever been killed in the name of atheism?" It comes up on page one on Google. Though I am an atheist, I say that yes, an awful lot of people have been murdered in the name of atheism. paulclark42.com/2023/06/16/h...

When writing The Omega Course, one thing I had to do was get in the head of my 17-year-old protagonist. One way was to adopt their means of communication, so some dialogue is messaging. Doing the layout wasn't easy!

When writing The Omega Course, one thing I had to do was get in the head of my 17-year-old protagonist. One way was to adopt their means of communication, so some dialogue is messaging. Doing the layout wasn't easy!

When I first joined Twitter in 2013, something I enjoyed was Steven Tiger's humane critique of Christian apologists. Sadly, Steven Tiger left Twitter soon after Musk took over, but I read his excellent book Doctrine Impossible and loved his ideas on rationality and faith:

My latest blog post - a review of Robert M Price's "The Christ Myth Theory and Its Problems": paulclark42.com/2026/01/18/r...

My latest blog post - a review of Robert M Price's "The Christ Myth Theory and Its Problems": paulclark42.com/2026/01/18/r...

As Christmas approaches, perhaps it’s a good time to ask how reliable the story of the nativity is. (Spoiler alert: it isn’t.) paulclark42.com/2024/04/15/h...

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The Omega Course - a coming-of-age story and an intellectual adventure. books2read.com/omega-course

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