fruitful faith

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)

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

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)

The most basic question one could ask is one which is asked and wondered at both by small children and genius level intellectuals.
It has various forms, and is worded differently, but is essentially the same question:
Where did we come from?
Alternate forms include: Why are we (or anything!) here?  How did things come into being?  Why [...]

May 25th, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, creation, theism, theology, truth | Category: philosophy | Comments (23)

…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)

I’ve checked out a book from the Carey Baptist library that’s proving to be very interesting:
The Future of Atheism: Alister McGrath & Daniel Dennett in Dialogue
It’s essentially a written copy of a 2007 conference including the McGrath/Dennett debate and the other papers presented – plus a few additional chapters and an introduction by the author/editor, [...]

February 21st, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, creation, debate, faith, god, philosophy, religion, science, spirituality, theism, theology, worldview | Category: atheism, philosophy | Comments (2)