For years now I have been interested in brain science and studies. So I was pleased when I came across a recent article in Time called, The Mystery of Consciousness. Check it out for a fascinating read. Steven Pinker writes that it is an illusion to think that the feeling we have of there being an “I” that “sits in the control room of the brain, scanning the screens of our senses and pushing the buttons of the muscles“. Consciousness... Read more
Over at Ebon Musings, one atheist writer offers a challenge to theists who claim that all atheists are closed-minded and exhibit their own brand of fundamentalism. Although he (I’m calling the write a “he” for brevity’s sake alone) must agree that there are closed-minded atheists who are fundamentalists, I think he is right to defend the possibility that not all atheists are the same. To prove that he is open-minded, he is willing to convert if he could be convinced... Read more
A few weeks ago I wrote an extremely popular post on Leaders and Elders that received over 150 comments. This following quote is given in the context of this same argument. Wendell Berry, the great American essayist, novelist, poet and farmer, in his book, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, writes something that has stayed with me for years: Amish ministers and bishops are chosen by lot, after fasting and prayer (as Mathias was chosen), and so they do... Read more
Some have asked what I spoke on yesterday. Psalm 119: 96: I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commandment is exceedingly broad. No matter what we know, no matter how impressive discoveries are or information is, no matter how perfect a certain philosophy or religion is, it is limited because it is human. How many times has the human race said, “This is it. Finally it!”, only to be proven if not wrong, at least imperfect? Over... Read more
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