As Christians, we must realize that our argument is not with science, nor philosophy, nor culture. The Christian’s argument – what we must continually challenge – is with the fallacious notion that philosophical naturalism is the default interpretive worldview position in science, philosophy and culture. Philosophical naturalism is the “cuckoo in the nest” that needs to be [...]
Continue Reading...Say Hello to my Little Friend is the blog of Dr Glenn Peoples from Dunedin in New Zealand. It covers issues in philosophy, theology, politics, social issues, and anything else that takes Glenn’s interest. That’s not all. Say Hello to my Little Friend is also a podcast, the most widely listened podcast on philosophy or theology [...]
Continue Reading...English philosopher and apologist Peter S. Williams works with the UK based Damaris Trust, a Christian charity dedicated to relating Christianity and contemporary culture. Williams is also Assistant Professor in Communication and Worldviews at Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication in Norway. Williams studied Philosophy at Cardiff University (BA), Sheffield University (MA) and the University [...]
Continue Reading...Book Review: The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow By Brian Auten of Apologetics 315 The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow landed on bookstore shelves in 2010 following a great deal of pre-release buzz from newspapers, blogs, and television. The authors’ conclusion was no secret: “Because there is a [...]
Continue Reading...No thinking person can escape some sort of metaphysics [1]. The question of metaphysics is important and unavoidable — and I think the reason why many people are materialists [2] is that they do not take the metaphysical question seriously enough. [Existing and thinking] is a bit like riding a bicycle. If you just keep [...]
Continue Reading...If science really is permanently committed to methodological naturalism – the philosophical position that restricts all explanations in science to naturalistic explanations - it follows that the aim of science is not generating true theories. Instead, the aim of science would be something like: generating the best theories that can be formulated subject to the [...]
Continue Reading...The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN) is a philosophical argument that highlights a tension between biological evolutionary theory and philosophical naturalism – the belief that there are no supernatural entities or processes. EAAN argues that the combination of evolutionary theory and naturalism is self-defeating on the basis of the claim that if both evolution and naturalism are [...]
Continue Reading...More Than Matter: What Humans Really Are by Keith Ward Format: Paperback 192 pages Published:24/09/2010 Publisher:Lion Hudson Plc ISBN:9780745962474 The question of what it is to be a human person is the biggest intellectual question of our day. Keith Ward has taught philosophy and theology in British universities for the past 40 years, and he [...]
Continue Reading...Inflammatory poster boy for the New Atheist movement, Sam Harris, was recently given some credibility by having his opinion on the origins of morality published in that sometime water-boy for atheistic scientism, New Scientist magazine. Morality: ‘We can send religion to the scrap heap’ 20 October 2010 Magazine issue 2782 Sam Harris says that science [...]
Continue Reading...“I am not just lodged in my body like a pilot in his ship, but I am intimately united with it, and so confused and intermingled with it that I and my body compose, as it were, a single whole.” (René Descartes, 1637) My thoughts on the mind/body interface are in development. Obviously, as [...]
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