I didn’t finish the ‘What Statistics Really Is’ post so you have to settle for this. After (I imagine) completing a rock-solid thirty minutes of intense theological studies and drawing on her […]
Are We Hard-Wired for Faith? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Bob Kurland is a “retired, cranky, old physicist.” This article originally ran in modified form at Reflections of a Catholic Scientist. “Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God”—St. […]
Which God Are You Rejecting? David Bentley Hart’s The Experience of God, Part I
The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss by David Bentley Hart. A good joke A joke which many atheists think clever goes like this: (speaking to a theist) “You reject Zeus, Aphrodite, […]
Something From Nothing: Or, A Heavenly Fish Sandwich
So I was sitting on the porch by the lake reading a piece by Trent Horn on the first premise of the kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God, which is […]
Sam Harris’s Moral Landscape Challenge: Win Big Money!
Brother Luís Dias informs us that arch-atheist Sam Harris has thrown down the silken gauntlet. Pfffssshh! Or maybe it’s pfffthclunk? Because this one’s stuffed full of hope—to the tune of twenty large. […]
Visualization Of Biblical Cross References And Supposed Contradictions
Chris Harris created some pretty graphics showing Biblical cross references and other such things. Below is the main result: The bar graph that runs along the bottom represents all of the chapters […]
C.S. Lewis On The Validity of Reasoning
From Miracles (Touchstone edition, 1996, pp 23-24; original 1947): All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning. If the feeling of certainty which we express by words like must be […]
Dawkins Gets It Wrong Again: Similar Is Not The Same
Richard Dawkins in an article to the New Statesman—the same issue which somebody who obviously wasn’t in full possession of his faculties assigned to Dawkins as editor—the Christmas issue, mind—an issue filled […]
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