In Depth:  Peter Comont

‘For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse’ (Romans 1.20).

But how does creation reveal God? Richard Dawkins is insistent that the only things that the universe can reveal come from scientific observation. He ridicules Christians as mad, stupid or worse for their stubborn belief in God, despite what he insists is overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Many Christians, it seems, consciously or unconsciously accept Dawkins’s claim that scientific observation should be able to demonstrate the existence of God, and have been enormously energetic in seeking scientific evidence for the existence of a Creator.

She is known as the bad girl of modern art. Tracey Emin is famous for exhibiting her unmade bed (My Bed, 1998) as a nominee for the 1999 Turner Prize.

Her work has been described as crude, primitive, uninteresting, ill-informed and objectionable. She herself has been described as narcissistic, vulgar, a bully and a con-artist. It was therefore with some trepidation that my wife and I entered the Modern Art Oxford (formerly The Museum of Modern Art) to view her latest exhibition, This is Another Place.