Is Faith Rational In an Age of Science?

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Faith & Science Podcasts 2012

Is faith rational in an age of science? Doesn’t science disprove Christianity? I gave this talk at a Cru student conference in Albany last Thursday. It’s the second in a series of three science and faith talks I’m posting this week. There is some overlap, maybe 30%, between this talk and the first one in …

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Politics, Corruption, and Ethics

Here’s a fascinating conversation between two men who went to Washington and then went to jail—Chuck Colson and Jack Abramoff—along with my friend John Stonestreet. Both Colson and Abramoff have stories of rising, falling, encountering disturbing truths about themselves, and experiencing a sense of redemption. In Chuck Colson’s case, that redemption was founded in a …

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Christianity, Science, and Materialism

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Faith & Science Podcasts 2012

“Religious people believe the most ridiculous things.” So says P.Z. Myers, the preposterous atheist of Pharyngula. He’s at least partly right: there are ridiculous religions everywhere you look. But when science gets married to atheism, such as P.Z. Myers, Jerry Coyne, and others do, the offspring of that marriage includes a lot of ridiculous beliefs as …

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The Meaning of Biblical Marriage: Who Decides These Things?

Shari Johnson describes herself as “I am an evangelical Christian who, I am sorry to say, used to be one of the ‘don’t-confuse-me-with-facts-because-my-mind-is-made-up’ type of Christian.” Now in a Fox News opinion piece she tells us, “When I hear terms like ‘God’s design’ and ‘Biblical marriage’ I have to wonder who decides these things.” Her …

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Coyne Responds on Free Will

Jerry Coyne has responded to my piece (and others’) yesterday on his Free Will article in USAToday. He begins, Predictably, at his own website the Thinking Christian says that the assumption of natural laws that absolutely determine our choices is an unjustified a priori conclusion, not supported by science itself. (Nope, it’s a conclusion based …

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To Live is Christ

Denn Christus ist mein Leben, und Sterben ist mein Gewinn. (Philippians 1:21, in Luther’s poetic prose).

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Jerry Coyne: “Why you don’t really have free will” – USATODAY.com

Jerry Coyne, who knows a lot about biology, doesn’t know nearly enough about other things on which he claims to be an authority. If what had written were only on his blog I would ignore it, but USAToday published it online: “Why you don’t really have free will.” It includes, Now there’s no way to …

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2011 Highlights

The Thinking Christian blog ends the year ranked at number 20 among religion blogs on the Internet, and number 73 among all blogs in the “Living” category, according to the premier ranking service Technorati. Those rankings bounce around a lot, based on who has linked here recently. Without your encouragement as readers, I never would …

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December 31, 2011 – 8:15 am Posted in Just For Fun, Miscellanea Tagged , , Post Comments (3) Recent Blog Comments For primary navigation click "Show Menu" above. For sidebar material (About, Links, Subscriptions, Blogroll, Copyright, ...) scroll down and click "Further Information."

Comment Spam Poetry

Today in the comment spam quarantine I found this treat: I’ve discovered an exceptional will become even quicker as opposed to I did so your regular way. Maybe this is the kind of thing only a writer could love, but try reading it aloud. It has a rhythm to it. For best effect you need …

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