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I’m often conflicted about the whole apologetics thing. As long as people have honest questions1 about belief, then it remains a logically legitimate enterprise, but it can be taken too far easily. For me, I’m interested in taking away needless barriers to faith2. Increasingly for me, it’s been exciting to see just how complimentary an evolutionary understanding of nature is . . . → Read More: this blog Is beauty completely subjective? I just had a truckload of beauty dumped in my lap as I took part in ‘Mixi Club’ at my church. Mixi Club provides community and food to the most interesting and wonderful range of people from the community around. . . . → Read More: beautiful The mind/matter issue is centuries old, and is probably here to stay. The philosophy of naturalism says that mind is not a distinct category of existence (ontology), but is rather some kind of emergent property or state of purely material elements. It actually proposes not that matter ‘makes’ or ‘gives way to’ mind, but that mind actually is nothing more . . . → Read More: mind over matter To demonstrate not only the difference between scientific/descriptive knowledge and metaphysical/prescriptive knowledge, but also the greater degree of both accessibility and authority in the latter, consider the following: There are scientific experiments which everyone knows (accessibility: tick) without question (authority: tick) simply should not (prescriptive: tick) be performed1. EDIT: lest it need to be said, the previous post makes no . . . → Read More: moral truth Just watched The Changeling with my wife (‘endured’ would be the term she’d use!), and really enjoyed it. There are some real gut-wrenching moments in there, which I won’t elaborate on here. One thing I found interesting was the particular (and familiar) feeling of deep satisfaction and relief I (and my wife – and anyone with a pulse) when the . . . → Read More: true feeling So I should probably post about my recent trip to India. I could give a ‘what we got up to’ report of the work our team did (some still over – some still yet to go) on the new Freeset T-shirts building. But we didn’t only go as labourers – we went to observe as well. Kerry took us on . . . → Read More: india: different Thanks, Ian Luxmoore… …for a friendly, respectful, engaging and thoroughly enjoyable conversation about life, god, the universe, morality and all the rest. Quite interesting (I’m slowly working through them in spare time, which I’ve not got much of!) 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 is there . . . → Read More: the most basic question Friggin’ hilarious… and a bit true as well |
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