tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103300872011-07-07T16:10:11.970-07:00Reflections mainly related to basic truth about the natural and supernatural world and the need for tolerance between people who percieve the light however weak their spiritual sight may be. I believe in God in whom all existence is maintained, and yet (as Christ) is ever present in the universe. God is good; God is sacrificial in love; the God Christ is revealed to humankind in Jesus Christ; God is both un-knowable, yet willing to indwell all who want to reflect God's character.mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01191221776423319844noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10330087.post-53121850831934994622010-09-21T04:34:00.000-07:002010-09-22T03:39:36.982-07:00

Can acceptance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ be rational? Click this link if you want to know my reasons!

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A recent philosophical presentation on mind-body solutions under a Theist paradigm

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Try this link if you are interested in how philosophical mind-body problems can be satisfactorily addressed under the Neutral Theist paradigm

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this article can now be viewed on this link:https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZpFgVmkqr_xZGNtOWZ2djNfMTEzZnQ4bg&hl=en

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I attach a helpful article by Dr Mary Midgley published in Philosophy Now.It challenges the 'cold war' waged by part of the scientific establishment against the notion of a grand purpose in human life (consisdered by scientists as a figment of imagination drempt up by organised religion) and asks whether the way forward for a wider understanding of where our natural sense of meaning and purpose

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3 postscript - natural disasters 3.10 Having shown in Part 1 of this essay that Creator God exists and in Part 2 of this essay that God is both purposeful and benevolent and that the philosophical 'problem of evil' is in my opinion (as far as it relates to the existence of evil in humanity) a red herring, I will now examine the other humanist objection couched in the so called problem of evil,

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2 Supernatural Creator God is OmnipresentHaving established (see part 1 of this essay) that supernatural purposeful creator God exists in reality and that all other existence that we can know (viz. the cosmos) derives solely from God’s existence, it follows that God is omnipresent in all existence. For I have shown that God exists in reality and that the natural derives from and exists because of

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Introductioni] At OU summer school, I have been asked by a group of philosophy student friends to prove that Almighty God exists. I ask by what means do they look for this proof? They sensibly reply that they do not look to science for this proof for rightly they perceive that by the definition of science, God, if God exists, is not subject to the natural, but rather the natural would be subject

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Such notions as a relationship between time and timelessness will sound dangerous to the purely rational scientist, and the reason for his or her fear, is straightforward. If you are examining the physical and spatial cosmos, science has discovered the tools for evidence based conclusions derived from repeatable experimentation that verifies testable hypotheses. Excellent for our temporal

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Prior to the introduction of zero from Arabic, people struggled with the use of mathematics. It is the case that in one sense zero does not exist because it is zero! Yet in another sense it does exist since by introducing its existence it enables other numerals to be better understood and logically used. In the same way to understand the universal concept of time and to logically deduce from it,

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Why as a Christian, I believe evolution to be in harmony with God’s revelation.There is some evidence that the majority of Christians do not hold to the relatively modern ‘creationist’ interpretation of the Biblical text (e.g., as propounded by ‘Answers in Genesis’) that we must take every word of Genesis as literal historical fact. Let me commence by stating my firm belief that all Christians

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One of the surprising things about life is that apparently tolerant people become intolerant of percieved intolerance in others. We expect intolerant people not to tolerate anyone who does not share their world view, taste, race, family, religion, or whatever it is they want to believe makes them superior to the rest of the world. Can it be that even tolerent people are sometimes little better

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Natural science (commonly now referred to as just, ‘science’) is the study of the physical universe and as such is limited. It is limited by the parameters of time, space, energy, light and matter, etc., which for the sake of this essay, I will call the physical primaries of the universe. Natural science by definition can’t stray beyond these boundaries, and so logically, there can exist, and I

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Sat 22 Jan 05 What prompted me on this string was reading the account of an Egyptian Christian man living in the USA who with his wife and two daughters (a child and a tennager) had their throats slit in their own home in Jersey City last week (police are still investigating, but the murders have the hall marks of so called Islamic extremists). He had been an ardent debater with USA muslims on

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