Author Archives: Tom Gilson

The More You Want

David Cross earned new bragging rights at the White House a while back, according to a Fox News report yesterday. That’s what he was after, and that’s what he gained, when he did cocaine at a dinner there in 2009: “It was just about being able to say that I did it, that I did …

February 22, 2012 – 11:36 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

“Are You Ready for the Reason Rally?”

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series True Reason

My BreakPoint column for this month: I’m trying to imagine how one conducts a rally for Reason. “Three cheers for Reason! Hip! Hip! True Major Premise! Hip! Hip! True Minor Premise! Hip! Hip! Valid inference to a sound conclusion! Now everybody go give your all for objectively and dispassionately examining evidences, and reasoning through appropriate …

February 21, 2012 – 5:02 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Worldviews | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Ten Turning Points: The Incarnation

I had surgery to repair a tendon in my foot last Thursday. For the past five days, to prevent post-operative swelling, I’ve been under doctor’s orders to keep my foot elevated all day long. I’ve been on a couch, recliner, or bed 23-plus hours a day since then. Today I’ll see the surgeon, and I …

February 21, 2012 – 9:25 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith, Thinking Christianly, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Reason Rally: Supremely Reasonable?

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series True Reason
February 21, 2012 – 7:09 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, New Atheism | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Come To The Reason Rally!

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series True Reason

They’re billing it as “the largest gathering of the secular movement in world history:” the Reason Rally, in Washington D.C. on March 24. They’ve lined up Richard Dawkins as their headline speaker, but he’s just one of many atheist stars this show will highlight. In the meantime I’ve joined up with a handful of Christian …

February 20, 2012 – 7:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, The Faith, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Ten Turning Points: What’s So Special About Special Revelation?

What’s so special about God’s special revelation? There’s much to be said, but I want to close this week’s study with just two words: knowledge and relationship. Knowledge We can know. It’s impossible to overstate the importance of that. Through God’s special revelation, the Bible, we know where we came from, what we’re here for, …

February 16, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (6)

Foot Surgery Tomorrow

I’m scheduled for foot surgery tomorrow morning, to get this ruptured tendon and extra bone growth taken care of. I’d be grateful if you would pray for me. I have a post schedule to appear here magically at 6:00 am tomorrow, but I don’t expect I’ll be contributing much to discussion much for a day …

February 15, 2012 – 1:30 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Unfiled | Comments (17)

Ten Turning Points: Progressive Revelation

God is always revealing himself. He has been doing so since (at least) the dawn of humanity. As I’ve written earlier in this series, he has done so not by dropping a book in anyone’s lap. We have a book now, but it didn’t come floating down from heaven, and it wasn’t dug up complete …

February 15, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (2)

Rejecting Knowledge for the Sake of Science?

Jerry Coyne and others may think it makes sense to reject knowledge for the sake of science. They’re wrong. Here’s a great case in point, though, from a transcription Coyne provided of a talk given by Michael Gazzaniga. “If you think about it this way, if you are a Martian coming by earth and looking …

February 14, 2012 – 12:16 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (138)

Ten Turning Points: God’s Special Revelation

We saw last time that God has revealed himself to everyone to some extent through general revelation. The knowledge we can gain that way is limited, however. Our knowledge of God is always bound to be limited, of course: he is far beyond our comprehension. We can’t know God exhaustively, we can’t know God as …

February 14, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (5)