The blog of a Middle Anglican
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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 [...]
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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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I suppose it was inevitable that the subject of creationism vs evolution would have to come up sooner or later. Earlier today I was reading Alvin Plantinga on the subject of what he calls evolutionary naturalism. By evolutionary naturalism he means the theory of evolution as viewed through the lens of philosophical materialism. Since his [...]
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I am unsure whether there are going to be very many posts in this category, but I have created a category specially for it, just in case. It seems to me that there is greater similarity between the biblical creation myths and the big bang theory than might at first appear. In this sense: That [...]
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