Category: Religion
Audio: Hugh Ross vs. Lewis Wolpert on evidence for a cosmic designer
| June 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Religion |
Wolpert could be at a disadvantage if, as a developmental biologist, he is learning the issues from the crackpot cosmologies featured in pop science mags. more
Coffee!! Atheist blogger about to join Catholic Church
| June 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Religion |
“When I went to college, and started hanging out with a politics and philosophy debating group, I met smart Christians for the first time, and it was a real shock.” more
A contrast between two evolutionary accounts of religion – explain vs. understand
| June 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Religion |
“The differences between Wade’s aims and Bellah’s are vast. The former wishes to explain religion; the latter wishes to understand it.” more
Philosopher Douglas Groothuis doubts that commentator Dinesh D’Souza solves problem of evil via evolution
| June 12, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News, Religion |
“Tackling this topic is a tall order for a short book written by a non-philosopher.” more
More from the “fed up with Darwin” files
| June 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News, Religion |
“But the question of whether Islam is compatible with Darwinism is one that government should just stay out of.” more
Which artist caused the most harm?
| June 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Religion |
Photographer and philosopher Laszlo Bencze offers a surprising answer, and it is relevant to ID. more
Thomas Cudworth on the “Wesleyan Maneuver”: A View from the Pew
| June 3, 2012 | Posted by Flannery under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion |
As a member of the United Methodist Church, the recent four-part analysis of BioLogos by Thomas Cudworth sparked my interest. I have no special training in theology and certainly no office within the UMC, but common sense and my historical sense of the church prompted me to wonder, is this a legitimate application of Wesleyan theology or is… more
Biola God and evolution conference now on YouTube
| May 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion |
From October 2010, based on the book God & Evolution more
He said it: Defining the word “rational” so as to exclude most ways to acquire knowledge
| May 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, News, Religion |
“”Imagination is more important than knowledge,” Einstein said. “For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, … ” more
From The Best Schools: Interview with Michael Licona on a historian’s view of the resurrection of Jesus
| May 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, News, Religion |
“Resurrection, despite its very traditional view that the bodily resurrection of Jesus occurred in space and time, has engendered a good deal of controversy … ” more
For record — Paul, Philemon, Onesimus, slavery etc. and the Christian ethics of the softened heart; a response to Dan Savage, Nick Matzke and others of like ilk
| May 5, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, Education, Media, Popular culture, Religion, Science, worldview issues and society, Society |
As Dr Torley recently highlighted here at UD, Mr Dan Savage, an activist for homosexuality, recently tried to trash Bible-based Christian ethics (at a conference on bullying) by accusing the Bible of advocating slavery. (We need not elaborate on his publicly displayed ignorance on issues linked to the general, historic, NT-based Christian view on the… more
Does analytical thinking cause religious faith to diminish?
| April 29, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy, Religion |
” … the latest new atheist trend in studying religion: The claim that analytical thinking dissipates it” more
Social sciences: Clergy who no longer believe but stay anyway
| April 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Religion |
Curious that people who believe in “goodness” do not believe in God. And some of us would caution against believing anything that Daniel Dennett says in this area … more
“No religion” is fastest growing religious designation?
| April 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Religion |
That’s true … but growth increments of small numbers are much more impressive than equal size growth gains of large ones. more
Moshe Averick on Jerry Coyne’s god, Darwin Akbar!
| April 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News, Religion |
Evolutionary biology is, in its present state, a pseudoscience – history pretending to be science. As such, it was bound to attract cranks, in this case atheist cranks. more
Yes, a Catholic can be a young Earth creationist in good faith
| April 13, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science |
“It comes as a surprise to many Catholics to learn how little the church teaches in this area–how few tenets are established as true beyond doubt, … ” more
Was Anders Breivik “not-insane”?
| April 10, 2012 | Posted by DLH under Animal minds, Cosmology, Darwinism, Design inference, Ethics, Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, language, News, Philosophy, Religion, Science, worldview issues and society, Society |
Other psychiatrists now find Norway massacre gunman Anders Behring Breivik ‘not insane’ – prison now possible “The experts’ main conclusion is that the accused, Anders Behring Breivik, is not considered to have been psychotic at the time of the actions on July 22, 2011,” the Oslo district court said in a statement which reopens the… more
The Reason for Imperfect, Self-Destructing Designs — Passover and Easter Thoughts
| April 7, 2012 | Posted by scordova under Philosophy, Religion |
[HT: idnet.com.au] Would an intelligent designer deliberately build a biological system that self destructs. Can something be intelligently designed that is reproductively unfit? Absolutely! But first consider the essay ID’s Broken Watchmaker Analogy, where a Darwinist unwittingly concedes an important point (in an otherwise confused, ignorant and illogical rant): Products of intelligent design typically have… more
Religious affiliation grows with education levels?
| April 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Education, News, Religion |
Some other interesting links, stats; some you expected, some you didn’t. more
Shroud of Turin continues to baffle researchers
| April 6, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Religion, Science |
That’s science working as it should. No fatuous claims are dredged up to explain it away. If we don’t know, we don’t know. Maybe some day we will know all. more