religion impeding science?
In a 2007 debate with John Lennox (viewable here), Richard Dawkins vocalises his frustration that religion (in his view) ‘stuntifies’ true scientific understanding: “The scientific enterprise is an...
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the future of atheism
I’ve checked out a book from the Carey Baptist library that’s proving to be very interesting: The Future of Atheism: Alister McGrath & Daniel Dennett in Dialogue It’s essentially a written copy of...
View Articleon science/faith blogging…
miscellaneous thoughts… if the time we spend is to be at all worthwhile, we need to accept that words matter enough to use them and work at our use of them (some key words in science/faith include:...
View Articleon reading genesis 1-3
What Genesis 1-3 is not: a play-by-play, atom-by-atom historical and scientific account of creation. The author/community which produced the text clearly had other things in mind than producing such a...
View Articleblamentations
Blamentations (pronounced: Blah-men-tay-shins; combining the words ‘blog’ and ‘lamentations’). I’ve been blogging with atheists (among others!) for at least 2 years now (I first ‘met’ Ian and Ken over...
View Articlethanks ian…
Thanks, Ian Luxmoore… …for a friendly, respectful, engaging and thoroughly enjoyable conversation about life, god, the universe, morality and all the rest.
View Article‘big question’ essays
Cheers to Bryson for directing me to an essay, which I discovered was one over several over at The John Templeton Foundation. The essays are comprised answers to ‘big questions’ from a variety of...
View Articlerooted reaching
When it comes to discussing certain topics, we all know (and some of us have been?) ‘that guy’1 whose style of engagement seems to harm rather than help the conversation. I think (and know from my own...
View Articleuncomfortable majority
Democracy’s main weakness is that it makes it possible for popular error to hold sway. Conservative Christians, like me, would say that about this or that popular cultural value that doesn’t align...
View Articlefruitful engagement with ‘other’ beliefs
I’ve had various interactions with various ‘non-orthodox’ (a.k.a. heretical) religious movements, and I grew up within one. In my earlier, younger and sadly more arrogant stages, these interactions...
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