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On Faith & Belief: The NAS doth protest too much, methinks

Posted on January 11, 2008 by me

According to the recently published tract from the NAS, entitled Science, Evolution, and Creationism, the “materialism of the gaps” approach is apparently the new scientific method: Even if their negative arguments against evolution were correct, that would not establish the … Continue reading →

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Schrodinger: quantum support for the supernatural

Posted on January 10, 2008 by me

Mathematician Granville Sewell writes that the Schrodinger partial differential equation, if correct, means that the supernatural can never be said to be impossible, merely improbable. For example, At the macroscopic level, quantum mechanics reduces to classical (Newtonian) mechanics, and when … Continue reading →

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Eschatalogical silliness

Posted on January 10, 2008 by me

Thanks to Ben Witherington for posting the following. The original source is apparently unknown, although BW has traced it back two generations to some United Methodist site. So, rather than merely link to his site, I decided to reprint (correcting … Continue reading →

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More on Flew, and even more philosophy

Posted on January 7, 2008 by me

Since the attempts to give Anthony Flew the brush-off will continue for a while, I thought passing along a link to his interview with Dr. Benjamin Wiker was appropriate. He certainly doesn’t seem senile in this interview. In response to … Continue reading →

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