The blog of a Middle Anglican
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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 [...]
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How often is it heard that religion is the cause of all wars? Even for people as semi-educated as some new atheists seem to be, that is a statement which can only be made if it is accompanied by a complete and wilful ignorance of historical fact. Was the First World War caused by religion, [...]
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I have just seen an item on the BBC website. It seems that some idiot organisation by the name of Christian Voice is trying to get the atheist adverts on the side of London buses banned. Apparently they haven’t heard that the UK is a democracy, and given half the chance they would probably like [...]
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Having conducted the interview linked to below, I suppose there is a remote chance that Richard Dawkins will stop treating all Christians as if they were first cousins of Jimmy Swaggart. But I must admit that I am not holding my breath. Dawkins/Coyne Interview
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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 [...]
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Especially amongst the more extreme of them, it is routine to hear fundamentalists say that evolution is all a plot, dreamt up by scientists determined to spread their atheistic philosophy. It is also routine to hear them say that reading the Bible in anything but a literalistic manner is the invention of theological liberals, who [...]
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