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)

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)

Nice.

June 25th, 2009 | Tags: random, web, weird people | Category: general, www | Leave a comment

In a very interesting find, this is a site of atheists (and agnostics) who are pro-life.
I think their arguments are (mostly) excellent, though of course it would be interesting to a) see how non-pro-life atheists would respond to them, and b) converse with them concerning things like how they determine (judge/establish/discover) the nature of human [...]

May 23rd, 2009 | Tags: abortion, atheism, belief, ethics, humanity, morals, web | Category: atheism, ethics, philosophy, www | Comments (28)

For mozzila firefox users, who blog with wordpress…
…I recommend installing the ‘Google Gears‘ plug-in (click ‘Turbo’ in your Wordpress dashboard – sorry not available for wordpress.com users!), which (when enabled) stores all the little images and things that you otherwise have to download each time you change pages.  This not only saves bandwith, but should [...]

May 18th, 2009 | Tags: review, technology, web | Category: technology, www | Comments (2)

“It really is high time we developed a Christian ethic of blogging. Bad temper is bad temper even in the apparent privacy of your own hard drive, and harsh and unjust words, when released into the wild, rampage around and do real damage. And as for the practice of saying mean an unjust things behind [...]

May 11th, 2009 | Tags: N.T. Wright, technology, web | Category: technology, www | Comments (7)

Friggin’ hilarious…  and a bit true as well

April 29th, 2009 | Tags: busyness, complacency, consumerism, culture, life, technology, truth, web, wisdom | Category: general, philosophy, technology, www | Comments (10)

miscellaneous thoughts…

if the time we spend is to be at all worthwhile, we need to accept that words matter enough to use them and work at our use of them (some key words in science/faith include: ‘knowledge’, ‘evidence’, ‘explanation’, ‘natural’, ‘reality’, etc).
it occurs to me that aiming for mutual understanding is infinitely more helpful than [...]

April 23rd, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, conflict, debate, emotions, faith, god, philosophy, religion, science, theology, truth, web | Category: atheism, philosophy, science, theology, www | Comments (8)