C S Lewis once remarked that either Christianity is false, in which case it is of no importance, or else it is true, in which case it is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important. You will sometimes hear atheists say that, although it seems very unlikely, they cannot absolutely [...]
My impression is that there is something ressembling Pelagianism in present day Christianity; especially on the other side of the Atlantic. Remarks such as, “if we could all be jolly nice to one another, wouldn’t things be wonderful?” are often to be found on the internet. They are left by professed Christians, who have presumably [...]
An eminent British scientist (Sir Martin Rees) wrote a book a few years back entitled “Our Final Century”. In it he talks about the potential disasters he thinks could await us in the course of the coming century. He estimates the chances of homo-sapiens still being around at the start of the 22nd century as [...]
Alvin Plantinga has become well known for an argument which states that materialism and the theory of evolution are not beliefs which can be rationally held by one and the same person at one and the same time. His argument is that Darwinian evolution presupposes a mechanism of natural selection, whereby organisms possessing attributes well [...]