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)

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)

…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)

The word ‘teleology’ (from Greek τελος ‘telos’ – meaning ‘goal’, ‘end’, ‘purpose’ or ‘that toward which things tend’) is not a street-level term.  However, the concept of a purpose, goal, function or ‘end’ to things most certainly is.  It’s a common as anything.  Teleology is blindingly relevant.

May 26th, 2009 | Tags: abortion, advertising, belief, busyness, change, community, conflict, consumerism, creation, dignity, ethics, evil, god, humanity, Law, life, love, morals, order, pain, peace, philosophy, poetry, politics, relationships, science, sexuality, spirituality, technology, wisdom | Category: ethics, philosophy | Comments (31)

…a somewhat better way to phrase the question (remember, words matter!) about god and reality, etc. would this:
Why does existence exist?
Answering the question by reference to any particular ‘thing’ that exists (a ‘force’, ’singularity’, ‘multi-verse’, ’string’, etc.) is to completely not pay attention to the question.  The answer cannot be in terms of any merely-existing [...]

May 19th, 2009 | Tags: creation, god, philosophy, theism, worldview | Category: atheism, philosophy, theology | Comments (27)

Mark your calendars and register!
TANSA (Theology and the Natural Sciences Aotearoa) presents:
The Theological Meaning of Evolution
Conference to celebrate and interact with Darwin.
Thursday June 25th at 7pm to Saturday June 27th at 6pm
Key Note Speaker: Dr. Christopher Southgate, author of The  Groaning of Creation University of Exeter
Local Speakers: Assoc. Prof. Ruth Barton (Auckland), Assoc. Prof. John [...]

May 1st, 2009 | Tags: christianity, creation, ethics, evil, evolution, faith, god, natural theology, order, philosophy, religion, science, theology | Category: bible, christianity, philosophy, science, theology | Comments (7)