In many discussions across the blogoshere about the existence of God or supernatural entities, the claim is often made that there’s no reason to think that such things exist because there simply is “no evidence”. Those who do think such entities exist are either “delusional” a la Richard Dawkins, or holding such beliefs “without evidence”. [...]
Philosophy
Its All About the Evidence…Evidently!
September 25th, 2007 | by donaldm | published in Atheism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Theology | 7 Comments »
Methodological Naturalism: Is it Necessary for Science?
September 18th, 2007 | by donaldm | published in Atheism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy | 26 Comments »
I’ve recently had the “privilege” of discussing some of the implications of so-called methodological naturalism (MN) on one or two blogs. For Darwinists, especially Darwinists who take philosophical naturalism (PN) as true, MN is an absolute necessity for scientific practice. Thus MN becomes an extension of PN, and has the effect of making science a [...]
Intellectually Fulfilled Theism
May 19th, 2007 | by derudo | published in Atheism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Theology | 1 Comment »
Isn’t it interesting that 19th century (the great “death of God” era) Darwinian “science” made it possible for Dawkins to become an intellectually fulfilled atheist, but that late 20th century science has made faith and theism more rational and reasonable than ever before in human history (in my opinion)? It’s an interesting turn of events. [...]
ID, Darwinism, and Divine/Fallen Human Uniqueness
April 13th, 2007 | by derudo | published in Atheism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Theology | 50 Comments »
Dear Teleological Folks, I posted the following over at UncommonDescent.com but it is undoubtedly long lost in the comments. I thought it might be of interest here. As some of you may know, I used to be a militant, Dawkins-style atheist. All that changed in 1994 after I bought my five-year-old daughter a cartoon video [...]
Science and Reality
April 4th, 2007 | by inunison | published in Philosophy | 75 Comments »
Stephen Jones has a very interesting post here. Just one snippet that I found quite interesting: “Let us begin with a crucial point. The laws of science are not inviolable. They represent a constantly changing logical complex, changing from decade to decade, and even from year to year. Lest this may surprise you let me [...]
Philosophy First Science
February 18th, 2007 | by donaldm | published in Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Theology | 170 Comments »
Sal’s recent OP about setting up a YC discussion blog got me thinking about the influence and role that philosophical presuppositions play in how one views science and scientific findings, or even in how one defines what science is. As I follow discussion after discussion on various blogsites regarding YEC v OEC v Naturalism, it [...]
Richard Dawkins Gives Humility Lessons
February 14th, 2007 | by donaldm | published in Atheism, Humor, Theology | 3 Comments »
In a howling funny ironic letter to the editor of the London Times our favorite foil Richard Dawkins tries to commit humility while accusing theologian Alistari McGrath of hubris and dogamtism. After picking myself up off the floor where I was rolling in laughter, I thought I’d share this little tid-bit with you all here [...]
SNIP SNIP If You Disagree With Dawkins
February 5th, 2007 | by donaldm | published in Atheism, Darwinism, Philosophy | 2 Comments »
As if we needed any more evidence of just how disingenuous Richard Dawkins is, check out this little tidbit I got from a friend of mine. Richard Dawkins: 4 December 2006 Richard Dawkins You Ask The Questions Question: Why have you not engaged in public debate with Alister McGrath, Mary Midgley, Michael Ruse, Keith Ward, [...]
Intellectual Barbarians
November 25th, 2006 | by inunison | published in Darwinism, Philosophy | 1 Comment »
Over at UD Francis Backwith said: No longer can we assume that our most accomplished scholars in a particular field are truly educated, that they are able to understand and communicate in an even rudimentary way the most important questions with which their civilization has wrestled for millennia. What we have produced are intellectual barbarians, [...]
Science and Revelation: a Working Relationship
November 21st, 2006 | by inunison | published in Philosophy | 1 Comment »
Few thoughts by Leonard R. Brand on relationship between science and religion, which I think, is quite relevant at present. I would appreciate your comments? With Christianity there are many different attitudes toward the authority of the Scriptures, but this paper is built on a conviction that there are many lines of evidence indicating that [...]