fruitful faith

John Cleese.

October 26th, 2009 | Tags: belief, god, life, science, web | Category: atheism, philosophy, www | Comments (4)

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)

Thanks, Ian Luxmoore…
…for a friendly, respectful, engaging and thoroughly enjoyable conversation about life, god, the universe, morality and all the rest.

September 2nd, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, debate, evolution, faith, god, life, order, philosophy, religion, science, theism, truth | Category: general | Comments (4)

The Christian response to the ‘Faithful Science’ day-conference have been mixed.
Most of the appreciative and complementary feedback has been email or verbal.  As for the less-appreciative feedback, unfortunately it’s been more public.
First, the Christian newspaper “Challenge Weekly” published a (to say it kindly) selective and less-than-inaccurate piece entitled “Conference fuels Controversy” (which can be viewed [...]

September 2nd, 2009 | Tags: belief, creation, evolution, faith, philosophy, religion, science, theology | Category: bible, christianity, science, theology | Comments (9)

Ken Perrott recently drew attention to a new book called The Six Ways of Atheism: New Logical Disproofs of the Existence of God by Geoffrey Berg.
At the site related to the book, there are summaries of the (as the site says) “six improved arguments for atheism”.
Now, I’m terribly sorry, but if these are ‘improved’ arguments [...]

July 16th, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, god, theism, web | Category: atheism, philosophy, www | Comments (23)

Blamentations (pronounced: Blah-men-tay-shins; combining the words ‘blog’ and ‘lamentations’).

July 2nd, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, debate, theism | Category: atheism, christianity, www | Leave a comment

…and that is one of the first ‘things’ I believe about God.

June 25th, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, creation, god, philosophy, theology | Category: atheism, philosophy, theology | Comments (34)

Announcing “Faithful Science“…
A one-day Science & Faith conference – coming August 1.
Speakers and topics:

June 23rd, 2009 | Tags: belief, creation, evil, evolution, faith, interpretation, science, theism, theodicy, theology | Category: bible, christianity, science, theology | Comments (12)