Category: Science
Fasting For Joy
There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundboxes stuffed full of anything, no music. If the brain and belly are burning clean with fasting, every moment a new song comes out...
The Possibility of Dogmatism
Over on Mere-O Abridged (the sidebar), where I highlight interesting articles by attempting a pithy line about them, I highlighted a review of the recently released research indicating that homosexuals can, in fact, change their behavior. The main thrust of...
A Unified Knowledge: Science and Theology
When modern science approaches the world, it asks two questions of it: what is the nature and arrangement of the matter under consideration, and how did that arrangement come to be? If one is a methodological naturalist, then the only...
You know what you get with an assumption, don’t you?
“In a nonmetaphysical age there is probably more metaphysics, in the common sense (ie a priori assumptions) than in any other, because there is more complete unconsciousness that we are resting on our own ideas, while we please ourselves with...
Human Exceptionalism Undermined? (Updated)
While my brother and Wesley Smith discuss this brief analysis of the importance to human exceptionalism by Leon Kass at his place, this provocatively titled piece of news has started to make the rounds: Chimps are More Evolved than Humans....
What I Should Have Said
The recent discussion on my post has been, if nothing else, illuminating and humbling. The criticisms, questions, and issues are overwhelming. While I unfortunately was unable to participate due to working two jobs and receiving major life news that kept...
Sanitizing Darwin
Jesus was no stranger to controversial or confusing claims: “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace on the earth. I did not bring come to bring peace, but a sword.” “Whoever has will be given more, and...
The State of Intelligent Design according to Phillip Johnson
Phillip Johnson explicates the state of the intelligent design movement in biology on the Discovery Institute website. It’s worth reading. From the end: The goal of the Intelligent Design Movement is to achieve an open philosophy of science that permits...
From Death unto Life: The Pro-Life Position and the Presence of Death
In late January, I wrote this essay for a Pro-Life symposium that it seems never materialized. In it, I included this claim: The pro-life position is fundamentally about freeing Death to do its work in its own way, in its...
Why did God create? a poem
This question has puzzled theists for millenia, and its atheistic equivalent, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” has puzzled everyone else for equally as long. Augustine says, “But why did God choose then to create the heavens and earth...