fruitful faith

John Cleese.

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

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)

Just a couple quotables I’ve read recently by James Chastek at Just Thomism:
…the best arguments for naturalism are that we should get out of the armchair, stop using abstract language and start giving quantitative, statistical, and experimental arguments… But the arguments are all made from the armchair, using abstract terms, without quantitative, statistical, or experimental [...]

July 29th, 2009 | Tags: philosophy, science | Category: philosophy, science, www | Comments (5)

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)

Jonathan Robinson discusses science and biblical interpretation here.
Ryan Browning responds to young-earth views here.

June 7th, 2009 | Tags: christianity, evolution, interpretation, science | Category: bible, christianity, science, theology, www | Comments (3)

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)

Ryan Browning joins the NZ blogosphere – and it’s not long ’till he has a post about evolution

May 22nd, 2009 | Tags: belief, evolution, science | Category: christianity, www | Comments (3)