Review of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, by Adam Rutherford. I picked up this book because it was reviewed in the Review section of the Wall Street Journal, to which I repair religiously on Saturdays. I had in mind to get current on the state of DNA research, after hearing so much hoopla […]
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Life Force
In the research and writing I do I generally stay away from evolution, mainly because it is so widely accepted that I feel like I need to understand it better before I reject it out of hand. Is it possible these proponents of it understand something I don’t? But more importantly, it’s not central to […]
Read more...Matter as God
You probably know the phrase “mind over matter.” It’s used in kind of a comic-book sense, oftentimes, but there’s a serious sense, too. It is the idea that Mind precedes matter. That a consciousness (the mind of God) preceded and created matter, and so all of matter is subject to its Maker, the immaterial God who […]
Read more...Morality and Freedom
Let’s think for a moment about freedom. Christian and Atheist Quests for Freedom Christians read from their book that “the truth will set you free,” meaning of course the truth of Christ’s redemption of us before a just God. We aspire to the good as we aspire to communion with the One who is good. […]
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The fact of evil in the world is perhaps the primary reason that people start down the road of concluding that there is no God. But God is implied in the very act of making the distinction between good and evil. Positing a Law Giver Ravi Zacharias said this: When you say there’s too much […]
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In Science and Anti-science, we looked at two theses. One: that exclusion of any possibility of the supernatural is bad science. Two: that some atheists depart from science altogether, subverting its principles, by attempting to brand their opponents “anti-science.” An astute comment to that post occasions this expansion of it. The suggestion is made that theists […]
Read more...If There is No God
Atheists’ Affirmative Beliefs Your friend has rejected religion. There is not a God, he believes. There is not a Creator of the universe. There is not a Sustainer of it. There is not a God present among us in some way. There is not a God component to our conscious self-awareness. There is not a transcendent […]
Read more...Origin of Life
The question of the origin of life poses a far more formidable challenge to materialism than does the inconsistent evidence for evolution. This is important to remember, because evolution and origin of life are often lumped together as though they were parts of the same question. They aren’t. Irreducible Complexity One of the reasons for […]
Read more...Evolution and Science
We considered the intersection of science and metaphysics in Evolution and Atheism. The idea there was to consider one’s philosophical presuppositions, when doing science, such as scientific inquiry into the origin of life. We ended on the observation that calling skeptics of Evolution “anti-science” is just a form of shouting down the opposition. It’s closed-mindedness. […]
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We often skip a step in our thinking about macro-evolution. If the theory is true, we feel, then there must be no God. If we think in such simple terms, then we’ve missed something important. Overwhelming Evidence of Design The strongest advocates of Evolution (capitalized here to signify macro-evolution) agree that the evidence of design […]
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