Monthly Archives: July 2009

“A Thousand Questions”

Seen at a Campus Crusade for Christ conference this evening. Very powerful. I recommend you view it full-screen; it has good enough resolution and its message comes across better that way.

July 29, 2009 – 11:40 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments Off

Lunch With Bradley Monton, “Intelligent Design’s Unlikely Defender”

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Pennock, Monton, Matzke, Luskin

I just had lunch with Bradley Monton, the University of Colorado philosopher who has stepped up as “Intelligent Design’s Unlikely Defender.” He and his friend/colleague Robert Pasnau were on their way to the Poudre River in northern Colorado for a kayaking trip, I’m in Fort Collins for a conference, and the three of us met …

July 29, 2009 – 7:00 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (55)

Intelligent Design’s Atheistic Defender

BreakPoint has just published my review of Bradley Monton’s new book, with the unexpected but highly intriguing theme expressed in its title: Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design. Monton is a philosopher on the University of Colorado faculty, and he is indeed an atheist who defends Intelligent Design. He has been the …

July 28, 2009 – 2:57 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (8)

“Fine Tuned Cosmos” by David Heddle (Faith and Science Part 2)

David Heddle, Ph.D., physicist at Jefferson Laboratory and Christopher Newport University and a fellow blogger, was Seaford Baptist Church’s guest speaker for Part Two of the series, “Does Faith Make Sense In An Age of Science?” (Part One was posted here; Part Three had to be canceled because the presenter had scheduling conflicts.) David’s topic …

July 26, 2009 – 11:45 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (38)

Does Faith Make Sense In An Age of Science? (2009 Version)

Does faith make sense in an age of science? Multiple myths surround the historical relationship between Christianity and science. This talk, given at Seaford Baptist Church on July 12, 2009, explores some of these misunderstandings. Documentation for the talk has already been posted, with an extended list of resources also available.

July 20, 2009 – 9:16 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Comments (70)

Science and Religion: Reason vs. Authority?

A while ago Geoff Arnold pointed out several “oddities” in my view of science and religion. Some of it I responded to on that thread. (The original post was one I had written about Sean Carroll’s Discover Magazine blog entry, “Science and Religion Are Not Compatible.”) I responded further on an entry titled “Explaining Souls,” …

July 17, 2009 – 8:43 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Comments (114)

But Corrective Punishment Makes Perfect Sense, Right?

I was listening to Reasonable Doubts on the way to work this morning. Reasonable Doubts is a strictly atheistic blog with an associated weekly podcast it, and this episode was to have Tom Clark, of the Center for Naturalism, as a special guest. Tom and I have our strong disagreements, yet I would regard him …

July 13, 2009 – 11:52 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (107)

Explaining Souls

In response to one part of a comment from Geoff Arnold: Geoff, the following is apparently your expansion of an assertion you had made earlier of “profound metaphysical problems” with the existence of the soul. [The "Dan" Geoff is speaking of here is the prominent philosopher of mind, Daniel Dennett.] I remember attending a class …

July 13, 2009 – 7:21 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (9)