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Physical Determinism and Free Will
An interesting discussion about free will and whether the physical universe is deterministic, which makes me reiterate my own view on these matters. When it comes to the vexing problems of dualism and also evolution, I think belief in an intelligent Designer (I have to make it a capital “D” since I’m talking about the [...]
Read moreReligious Potpourri
Hey it’s Sunday, this is permissible… ==> On old review by Tom Woods of Edward Feser on the “new atheism.” ==> Ayn Rand was not a fan of C.S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man. (HT2 Jason Clemens on FB, who got it from Tyler Cowen I think.) But what did she think of Narnia? On [...]
Read moreBecause He’s God
A quick one: A lot of atheists / agnostics argue with me by pointing out that if humans did the sorts of things that occur in the Old Testament, I would be (rightly) horrified. Why then does this Yahweh character get a pass? Because He’s God. That’s not a cop out, it’s a perfectly fine [...]
Read moreJesus Attempts to Explain Why God Allows Evil
I was going to read my son another chapter from the second Harry Potter book, but he requested a story from “the Bible…your Bible.” (By which he meant, not the children’s animated book of Bible stories in his room.) So I flipped through and read him this, from Matthew 13: 24-30: 24 Another parable He [...]
Read moreThe Two Good Things About Christians…
…are that they publicly acknowledge that they are awful, but that there is a perfect role model to serve as a perpetual source of hope and encouragement. The older I get, becoming wiser and seeing firsthand the nature of men and women, the more I think Christianity is the diagnosis and prescription. Other worldviews lack [...]
Read moreNot a Shred of Evidence for God?
One of the things that amuses me in “science vs. religion” debates (in quotation marks because I think that’s a false dichotomy, like have a debate between Superman and pizza) is the overblown rhetoric coming from the supposedly objective, rational, empirical side. (I’m sure the theists do it too, but they’re supposed to be the [...]
Read moreWhy Do Some Christians Look to the Bible So Much?
Gene Callahan wants to know: I ran across the passage quoted below while researching job opportunities, as a pledge that faculty of a certain college must take before they can be employed there: “The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, God’s infallible written Word, the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. [...]
Read moreThoughts on Luke’s Resurrection Account
In church today we covered Luke 24: 1-12: 24 Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them,[a] came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 Then they went [...]
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