Tag Archives: Materialism

Creation Out of Nothing

God’s work in this world is marked by at least ten crucial turning points, sovereign acts of God that make all the difference for you and for me. The creation of the universe The creation of man and woman in God’s image The Fall God’s calling of a people for himself God’s ongoing self-revelation The …

January 16, 2012 – 3:44 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Bible, Origins and Science, Religions, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (6)

The Materialist As “A Kind of Childishly Complacent Fundamentalist”

I’m reading David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies. I’ll post a review of it before long, but I suggest you not waste time waiting for me to do that. This is one of the best books I’ve read in years. Here’s a taste of it, and a topic for …

September 4, 2011 – 1:21 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

“War over the brain”

Amanda Gefter wrote in New Scientist on October, 22, Could the next battleground in the ID movement’s war on science be the brain? [Link: Creationists declare war over the brain - brain - 22 October 2008 - New Scientist] Some key excerpts: The article is riddled with words like “worry,” “attack,” “war,” “threat.” Gefter tried …

October 25, 2008 – 5:32 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (5)

Mind and Brain: Philosophy or Science?

Denyse O’Leary was the co-author (with Dr. Mario Beauregard) of a book I reviewed in the April issue of Touchstone magazine: The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul. Beauregard has published research (see links from here) challenging some neuroscientists’ view that spiritual experiences can be explained through physical brain science …

April 25, 2008 – 11:31 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (11)