Tag Archives: Humanness

The Image of God Under Attack

The image of God in humans is under attack. Evolutionary doctrine leads many thinkers to conclude that there is no essential difference between us and and any other organism. (By “evolutionary doctrine,” I am referring specifically to the version of evolutionary theory that says all organisms have come to be through blind, unguided processes of …

January 28, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (19)

In His Image: Working and Creating

Genesis 1:26-31 says, Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God …

January 26, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Says the Madman: “Humanity Is Dead, and We Are Its Murderers”

“Whither is humanity? cried the Madman. I will tell you. We have killed it. We are its murderers! But how could we do this? Are we not plunging continually? How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?” When Friedrich Nietzsche’s Madman told the world, ”God is dead, and we are his murderers,” it was as if …

January 24, 2012 – 5:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (71)

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 …

January 3, 2012 – 11:53 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (18)

The Abolition of the Person

Godwin’s Law infamously predicts that as any Internet discussion continues, the probability that Hitler will be mentioned approaches 100%. I’ve wondered about this. Both Stalin and Mao murdered many more people than he did, so why does Hitler hold this uniquely dishonorably honor? It might be because the German horror strikes closer to home for …

October 6, 2011 – 10:11 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)