Posted in apologetics, creation, science on 12 February 2008 | 5 Comments »
Having discussed some of the theoretical issues, we’re now dealing with a succession of challenges that are often made by inquirers and critics of the Christian faith. The first of these has to do with a cluster of issues that could fall under the heading of the perceived conflict between science and religion. [...]
Posted in atheism, science on 18 June 2007 | 3 Comments »
Richard Lewontin, a Harvard-based evolutionary biologist, Marxist, atheist:
‘We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so [...]
Posted in atheism, faith, science on 16 May 2007 | 1 Comment »
After last week’s interview with Dawkins I was interested to see Alister McGrath show up on “The Hour” the other night (view it here). McGrath has written two books in response The God Delusion: Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life and The Dawkins Delusion? Kudos to George for bringing on [...]
Posted in atheism, faith, science on 5 March 2007 | 6 Comments »
The previous post generated quite a bit more discussion than I had expected, although the question raised remains, in my opinion, quite a significant one. If we grant that the world is all there is and that we are the way we are because of a long line of evolutionary adaptations, then how do [...]
Posted in atheism, faith, science on 27 February 2007 | 62 Comments »
Having spent a bit of time talking about Dawkin’s ‘God Delusion‘ (see here and here), I’ll pass on a review of the book by Alvin Plantinga, a philosopher at the University of Notre Dame. Plantinga is a fairly widely respected Christian philosopher (although I find his Calvinism a bit baffling given his resistance to [...]
Posted in science on 20 February 2007 | 3 Comments »
They say you shouldn’t post on things you don’t understand but, what the heck… I’ll trust those who know better to correct me if what follows is wrong.
Lately I’ve been reading a lot of John Polkinghorne, a particle physicist turned theologian who is interested in the integration of these two fields of knowledge. He’s [...]
