True And False In Adam And Eve

June 14, 2010 By 8 Comments

Yesterday I replied to Mary Midgley’s article out this weekend, which claimed that evolutionary theory does not refute Genesis since Genesis was not meant to be a literal description of how God made the world. In reply I revisted remarks and videos that I posted last fall which overviewed the ways that even if we [...]

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Thank God For The New Atheists?

June 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Reverend Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World thinks that the New Atheists are really the new prophets.  The Infidel Guy Show interviewed him a couple weeks ago for an hour. In the audio, he argues that God is not [...]

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On The Possible God Of Philosophy And Cosmology Vs. The Personal, Historical God Of Faith

September 5, 2009 By 5 Comments

This post is inspired by some excellent remarks from Daniel Dennett in reply to William Lane Craig’s vigorous cosmological arguments for the existence of God (which you can see him make in a separate debate here).  Here is the Dennett video, below it you’ll find a rough transcript I have produced of it, and then [...]

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Disambiguating Faith: Faith In The Sub-, Pre-, Or Un-conscious

August 25, 2009 By 2 Comments

In previous posts (which you will not need to have read to understand this one, but which I recommend you catch up on if you have the time now or later), Adam has tried to argue that irrational ways of thinking may be indispensable means of getting at truth.  In response, I have tried to [...]

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Plato: Myth and Logic

August 5, 2009 By 1 Comment

New on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, an interesting article on Plato’s attempt to merge muthos and logos.  Here’s the description: What the ancient Greeks—at least in the archaic phase of their civilisation—called muthos was quite different from what we and the media nowadays call “myth”. For them a muthos was a true story, a [...]

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“Just Leave Us Our Fictions”

July 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Patrick Appel objected to Dan Dennett’s recent piece in The Guardian countering those faitheists who do not actually have religious beliefs themselves but believe in the necessity of religious beliefs for others to achieve various social goods.  In reply, a reader wrote the following to him: Ironically, I don’t see any support in the quote [...]

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Objections To Religious Moderates and Intellectuals (part 3)

June 25, 2009 By 2 Comments

Shane’s reply to this post addressing him (and you can find part 1 which initiated the conversation here): An excellent response! Much more in-depth than my teasing comment probably warranted. Sorry, but my response is a bit rambling. That comes with the blog commenting genre, I think. My earlier point wasn’t about intellectual virtues or [...]

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