fruitful faith

Another observation about some of the theological (as in, not biological) features of the text of Genesis 1…

March 3rd, 2010 | Tags: fill, form, fruitfulness, genesis 1, idolatry, interpretation, literary genre | Category: bible, christianity, poetry, science, theology | Leave a comment

On the 5th day, God filled the skies and seas with all kinds of sky-life (‘every sort of winged bird’) and sea-life (’swarms of living creatures’).  Everything that flies through the sky.  Everything that lives in the sea.  A few points:

March 1st, 2010 | Tags: biology, creation, evolution, genesis, interpretation, spontaneous creation, the fall, youth earth | Category: bible, christianity, science, theology | Comments (15)

There’s a nice parallel between Dawkins’ less-than-informed rant against theism in The God Delusion (God would have to be very, very complex, because I, Richard Dawkins, zoologist, say so) and the recent apparently less-than-informed ‘refutation’ of evolutionary theory by Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini in What Darwin Got Wrong.
Will the people defending Dawkins (a la ‘Must he [...]

February 25th, 2010 | Tags: richard dawkins, the god delusion, What Darwin Got Wrong | Category: atheism, christianity, philosophy, science, theology | Comments (6)

February 2nd, 2010 | Tags: easy-dismissalism, intellectual integrity, michael ruse, richard dawkins, straw-mannery, the god delusion | Category: atheism, christianity, philosophy, science, theology, www | Comments (1)

One way to explain a clock is to talk about how its physical parts (sprockets, springs, wood, metal, etc.) function, etc.  This will involve telling a story of how the design came about.
Another way to explain a clock is to talk about what its parts are composed of.  This will involve telling a story about [...]

January 27th, 2010 | Category: atheism, philosophy, science, theology | Leave a comment

Just before the 6 creation days in Genesis 1, the earth is described as ‘tohu va vohu’ (formless and void; or wild and waste; or chaotic and empty).  It has no shape (un-formed) and has no stuff (un-filled).
The 6 days of creation (the ‘hexameron’) divide into 2 sets.  The first set of 3 days is [...]

December 29th, 2009 | Category: bible, poetry, science | Comments (14)

I have never quite understood what some are on about when they point to the vast size of the universe as some kind of evidence that we are insignificant, and that any notion of  human significance is ‘anthropocentric’ (human-centred).

December 1st, 2009 | Category: bible, christianity, philosophy, poetry, science | Comments (2)

Those who hold that all things (the universe/multiverse/whatever) began to exist and were created (by an ultimate Creator or First/bottom Cause), and those who hold that all things (the universe/multiverse/whatever) ‘have always existed in some form/state’ agree on (at least) one point…
…namely that there is indeed an uncreated ‘thing’ which cannot be questioned, caused, created, [...]

September 15th, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, creation, god, philosophy, theism | Category: philosophy, science | Comments (96)

Cheers to Bryson for directing me to an essay, which I discovered was one over several over at The John Templeton Foundation.
The essays are comprised answers to ‘big questions’ from a variety of perspectives – theist, atheist and agnostic.  They make for interesting reading whatever your beliefs are.
Two of the ‘big questions‘ essays were of [...]

September 14th, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, creation, debate, evolution, faith, god, life, philosophy, science, theism, web | Category: atheism, christianity, philosophy, science | Comments (2)