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Science is Like God

Posted in Culture, Science, religion on Feb 6th, 2008

From a person in an advertisement for a show on truTV:
People lie. Science doesn’t.
Do I have to say what’s wrong with that attitude? Try this one instead:
People lie. God doesn’t.
No, no. Wait. This one is a classic (I saw it on a bumper sticker so long ago):
God said it. I believe it. That settles [...]

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When Do Wholes Happen?

Posted in Ontology, Philosophy, religion on Nov 29th, 2007

I’ll be lecturing about St. Thomas’ philosophy to my students for the first time today. We’ll be discussing the fact that, in Christian philosophy/doctrine, God and World do not form a whole. They are not two parts of the same thing.
Red and awesome may be two parts of my hair. Legs and arms may [...]

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Polkinghorne on Dawkins, Cornwell, and Humphrys

Posted in Philosophy, religion on Nov 17th, 2007

Thanks to Keith Burgess-Jackson for pointing his readers to John Polkinghorne’s review of Darwin’s Angel and In God We Doubt for the Times Literary Supplement.
In it, Polkinghorne uses the fact that Darwin’s Angel is a literary response to Dawkins’ The God Delusion as an occasion to say a few things about Dawkins and TGD himself.
Polkinghorne [...]

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Confusing Morality and Politics

Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, politics, religion on Nov 12th, 2007

(The Taliban did it. The Iranian leadership does it. Chavez does it. The founders of Communist Russia and China did it. Americans do it.)
An idea developed in the modern period (between 1600 and 1900, say) that religion (i.e., morality) and politics can be kept separate. As I’ve discussed before (here and here, for instance), what [...]

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“Cosmic Loneliness”: Another Episode of “Personal Theology Time!” with Your Host, MD Tillman

Posted in Theology, prayer on Nov 2nd, 2007

Begin Transcript . . .
Yesterday somebody got to my site through a search for “cosmic loneliness.” I found this so amusing I thought I should write a post I’d promised to write a while back. So I went back to find the post where I made the promise, and found the very phrase I thought [...]

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The Problem of Evil and Mormonism

Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 30th, 2007

Mormons and evangelicals are or aren’t both Christians. We were wondering about that this morning, right? And whether the two groups share the same values and doctrines.
And before that, I said the Problem of Evil was one of the Philosophical Issues surrounding Creationism.
And I happen to have something to say about Mormonism and the Problem [...]

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