Tag Archives: Supernaturalism

Dallas Willard on Christianity, Magic, and the Supernatural

Dallas Willard, professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California, asks this question in his excellent book Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship With God: How does a life in which one speaks the creative word of God differ from a life of voodoo, magic, and superstition? Here is part of his answer (the …

November 29, 2009 – 9:42 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Knowing God, New Atheism | Tagged , , | Comments (18)

Explaining Souls

In response to one part of a comment from Geoff Arnold: Geoff, the following is apparently your expansion of an assertion you had made earlier of “profound metaphysical problems” with the existence of the soul. [The "Dan" Geoff is speaking of here is the prominent philosopher of mind, Daniel Dennett.] I remember attending a class …

July 13, 2009 – 7:21 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (9)

Four Puzzlers from Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer on why science and religion can never unite: I don’t think a union between science and religion is possible for a logical reason, but by this same logic I conclude that science cannot contradict religion. Here’s why: A is A. Reality is real. To attempt to use nature to prove the supernatural is …

February 24, 2009 – 3:32 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (3)