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Praxman and Ditchkins on Science

Science & Faith (Prof Edwin Judge)

Edwin Judge is regarded as one of the most important social historians of Christianity and one of Australia’s leading intellectuals. After studying at Canterbury University, New Zealand, and Cambridge, England, he spent twelve years at Sydney University. He then accepted the inaugural History Chair in the field of Ancient History at Macquarie University where he [...]

The Limits of Science – Colin McGinn

It is salutary to curb the scientific hubris that has dominated our culture during this [the 20th] century. Science has undoubtedly achieved wonderful things, but it has a dark side. The unbridled arrogance of science is part of what lies behind nuclear weapons, pollution, unnecessary animal (and human) experimentation. Showing that science has its limits [...]

In Search of the Soul – Glenn Peoples

Dr Glenn Peoples is a Philospher of Religion and a Christian who hails from Dunedin in New Zealand (right down on the south west corner of the South Island). He runs the excellent blog and podcast Say Hello to my Little Friend. In this audio podcast series, Glenn runs through the spectrum of models for [...]

Recommended reading: “The Mysterious Flame” (Colin McGinn)

The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World (by Colin McGinn) You have a piece of meat in your head called a brain. You also have perceptions, feelings, thoughts, and ideas, which scientists assert are related in some fashion to that piece of meat. How can this be? Philosopher Colin McGinn looks at this [...]

Recommended Reading – “Alone in the Universe?” (David Wilkinson)

Alone In The Universe?: The X-Files, Aliens And God Author: David Wilkinson Product Details: ISBN: 9780830819386 Publication Date: 1998-03-01 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Pages: 156 The search for life in the universe is not just the mission of Star Trek or science-fiction addicts. It is the serious business of many scientific and government studies. And UFO [...]

Science & Truth

Q: Why does science only admit explanatory mechanisms that are naturalistic and materialistic? A: Because we know that the supernatural and the immaterial do not exist. Q: How do we know that? A: Because science has proven it. Q: How has science proven that the supernatural and the immaterial do not exist? A: By providing [...]

Jennifer Wiseman on Space Exploration

I think it’s exciting as Christians to go exploring, because we’re never going to find anything that’s outside of God’s realm. Everything is part of this majestic creation, and the more you discover the more amazed you get by thinking about God, and so I think exploration is a divinely Christian activity and people should [...]

Einstein on God

Despite the claims of the New Atheists, such as Richard Dawkins, Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was not an atheist, nor was he a pantheist. Einstein expressly rejected both of these philosophical positions in favour of a form of deism, or maybe distant theism. Here are some quotes from Einstein to support this: I am not an [...]

The Boundaries of the Knowable

Science has its limits. One day, science will grind to a halt. No more scientific discoveries. Not that we’ll have discovered everything — complete knowledge, nothing more to know. It will be that we have discovered everything that is open to us to understand, which is not the same thing. Don’t get my wrong — [...]