Tag Archives: Philosophy

Sam Harris and Lawrence Krauss Talk About Nothing, and Make About That Much Sense

Lawrence Krauss says to Sam Harris, Indeed, the question, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” which forms the subtitle of the book [his recent A Universe From Nothing], is often used by the faithful as an unassailable argument that requires the existence of God, because of the famous claim, “out of nothing, nothing comes.” …

January 13, 2012 – 12:13 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

A Taste of New Mystery: Thomism and Intelligent Design

My post on Plantinga raised an old question again: is Intelligent Design poor theology, poor metaphysics, as certain Thomist theologians/philosophers think it is? Specifically, does it “give the game away” to naturalists/materialists by conceiving of the world in a mechanistic sense, making God a tinkerer in his creation? Does it misconceive who God is in …

November 30, 2011 – 10:32 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (41)

The Two Most Overlooked Apologetics Verses In the Bible

Hardly anybody ever mentions it, but two of the most well-known verses in the Old Testament have significant apologetic implications, lending support to the Bible’s supernatural origins. One of them I’m sure will be a surprise to many readers here; the other might also. I will preview the argument before telling you which verses they …

May 23, 2010 – 5:10 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (9)

On Blogging a Philosophy Book

A few days ago I confidently announced I was going to blog my way through J.P. Moreland’s Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation. What I failed to recognize was that the first chapter is considerably more “bloggable” than the rest. I’m scaling back my plans now. Moreland’s book began with the difficulty …

February 26, 2008 – 9:43 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Against One-Dimensional Thinking

“Pantalaimon,” a commenter on Thinking Christian, supplied a number of quotes yesterday to show that (in his words) ID is not a scientific research program in any sense, and never has been. Scientific understanding is of no intrinsic interest to ID. Any “research” they may undertake is strictly subservient to the philosophical goal of crushing …

January 16, 2008 – 12:11 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (38)