One Christian Thought

It really makes me sad that the believability of miracles is even a subject in and of itself which Christians have to respond to. The major reason I'm against intellectually dismissing the supernatural is at the end of this post, because first I need to explain why I think doing so is just downright unreasonable. I can do that, so I appreciate this opportunity God has given me to support Him using the material He supplied by working through other people, even though in my opinion philosophical naturalism would be funny if no one believed it.  That's right -- philosophical naturalism. The enemy of religious faith. It's the belief that the world is governed by, and only by , natural law, no matter what. There are two arguments against miracles dealt with in this post. One is that they cannot happen because they are an occurrence which does not accord with the completely absolute laws of nature. Sometimes scientists can view miraculous claims as an insult to their profession b...

Back on the twenty-second of this month, when I wrote " Is Religion a Curse? My Personal Thoughts on the Moral Implications of Jesus-God and No-God ," I suggested that I would title what is now this blog post "David Barash Makes Me Mad: Here Me Roar." My plan was for it to be satirical, because I don't believe people really do make others mad, they just do things which people choose to get mad at. But as you will know if you have been following my blog, I argue that evolution takes away free will, so technically, David Barash would have been made by his physical composition to do something which apparently causes my physical composition to make me feel angry, if his worldview is true. Or however determinism is supposed to work. I changed my mind because I think pointing out someone in a way which seems to belittle and condescend, even though you have to read that into the title (as reasonable as it is) and this is the intellectual business where if you attemp...

I have read a lot of quotes from Paul Davies in many books. He is a "renowned physicist at Arizona State University," (1) "Templeton Laureate and prominent physicist," (2) and was dubbed by former leading atheist Antony Flew as "arguably the most influential contemporary expositor of modern science." (3) The Evidence for God in the Universe “The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture,” writes physicist Freeman Dyson, “the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense knew we were coming.” (4) Agnostic physicist Robert Jastrow of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies calls the life-permitting constants of the universe “the most theistic result ever to come out of science.” (5) Nobel Prize winning astronomer Donald Page of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Science calculated that given all of the possible ways in which the constants could have obtained in a Big Bang, the odds of getting a universe capable of...