The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being by Daniel J. Siegel Hardcover, 387 pages Published April 17th 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published January 1st 2007) ISBN 039370470X (ISBN13: 9780393704709) Over the last 20 years, there has been growing attention in the Western world to mindfulness — paying [...]
Continue Reading...From The Veritas Forum: The Finite and the Infinite – Ian Hutchinson and Roald Hoffmann at Cornell University Two leading scientists discuss nature, knowledge, and faith from atheistic and Christian perspectives. What can science tell us about the meaning of life? Where are its limits, and—when we reach them—where do we turn for truth and [...]
Continue Reading...In this talk given at the Faraday Institute in 2006, neuropsychologist and neuroscience researcher Dr Warren S. Brown gives a fascinating lecture entitled Reconciling Neuropsychology & Theology. Listen to or view the lecture here (enter “Warren Brown” in the search box). The talk is dated 18 July 2006.
Continue Reading...Dr Marc Cortez is Assistant Professor of Theology and Academic Dean at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregan. In this fascinating talk given as part of a Faraday Institute Summer conference in July 2011, Dr Cortez gives an excellent overview of philosophical and theological anthropology – what makes us human – with particular emphasis on the various [...]
Continue Reading...God and Science: In Classroom and Pulpit by Graham Buxton View all my reviews Controversies about science and faith – especially debates about creation and evolution – continue to engage Christian teachers and pastors. How do they deal with such questions and respond with answers that are both informed and intelligent? This book [...]
Continue Reading...In this 3 part Reasonable Faith Podcast series, professional philosopher William Lane Craig critiques theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss on the muddled thinking and sloppy semantics of the arguments presented in Krauss’s book A Universe From Nothing. Craig schools Krauss in the basics of rational thinking, linguistics, semantics and logical deduction – all important elements of the [...]
Continue Reading...This is an excellent talk given at the Faraday Institute in Cambridge by one of my favourite philosophers, Keith Ward. An excellent discussion of science, philosophy, cosmology, materialism, metaphysics and the rationality of theism. God, Science and the New Atheism (Hint: Type “Keith Ward” into the search box and select)
Continue Reading...Some modern philosophers pride themselves on their “naturalism” but real naturalism begins with a proper perspective on our specifically human intelligence. Palaeoanthropologists have taught us that the human brain gradually evolved from ancestral brains, particularly in concert with practical toolmaking, centring on the anatomy of the human hand. This history shaped and constrained the form [...]
Continue Reading...This is an excellent panel discussion, provided by the Veritas Forum, between two scientists and an Old Testament scholar. It covers questions regarding an informed reading of the Genesis creation account, age of the earth, the origin of humanity and a literal Adam and Eve. The panelists are Jeffrey P. Schloss, Tremper Longman, S. Joshua [...]
Continue Reading...Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution (by Karl Giberson) Hardcover, 248 pages Published June 1st 2008 by HarperOne ISBN0061228788 (ISBN13: 9780061228780) Intelligent design, creationism, and evolution have always been hot topics for debate in the Christian West. Creationism and intelligent design are usually seen as the province of religious people, [...]
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