CategoryPhilosophy
Can Cultural Christianity Save Christian Culture?
People cannot reconnect with a view on life that they don’t believe, simply to save the things that only such a view can create and maintain
Methodological Naturalism: Helpful Rule or Hindering Dogma?
If the observable data points to outcomes that natural causes cannot adequately explain, then ruling out supernatural causes from the outset is not scientific humility — it’s dogma
Panpsychist Philosopher Espouses “Heretical” Form of Christianity
The fine-tuning of the universe for life was a key factor in Philip Goff's decision that there must be some sort of God
“Nature of the Universe” Questions That Still Puzzle Physicists
What would go wrong if we just accepted that we live in a universe designed by a Mind far greater than ours? Would that really be the end of science?
Why AI Breaks Down Where Human Creativity Begins
Part 1: AI can handle statements that are internally coherent but that is not the same thing as correspondence with reality
An Experimental Physicist Reacts to Pop Physics Re the Big Bang
Physicists Brian Cox and Sir Roger Penrose make a number of claims about infinite and endless universes. But how much of this is really physics? We asked Rob Sheldon
Michael Egnor on Faith, Reason, and the Architecture of Reality
In this week’s podcast, discussion with Robert J. Marks, he talks about the relationship between arguments from philosophical reasoning and faith
Michael Egnor: Your Spiritual Soul Has No Off Switch
Here is Dr. Egnor’s talk at the Dallas Conference last February, where he discussed some themes from The Immortal Mind, to be published June 3
Settled Science Is a Contradiction in Terms
The consensus of science has often turned out to be incorrect and we often get closer to truth when it is challenged
Physicist: “Bad Philosophy” May Spur Search for New Physics
Carlo Rovelli points out that revolutions’ in the history of fundamental physics are more conservative than they are often depicted
A Challenge to Pale Blue Dot-ology: Earth Is Significant
The “pale blue dot lost in space” view of Earth seems to brand science as an intellectual property of materialist atheism. And evidence isn’t what keeps it going
Salvo: The Facts and Fictions of the Scopes Monkey Trial
Society has changed so much that biologists face trouble not for believing in Darwinism but for believing in the reality of biology
Idealism: Rethinking Reality Through a Divine Lens
Douglas Axe’s defense of idealism as a philosophy in a recent podcast should prompt deep questions: In what sense is the physical world real?
Mind Rules, Not Matter, Biologists Say — in Journal Article
They argue that simple natural processes cannot explain embryological development. Instead, biology is directed by cognition
The Ship of Theseus: The Mystery of Personal Identity
If all your parts are slowly replaced, in what sense are you still you? A Mind Matters podcast discussion explores that
The Enduring Self and the Case for Substance Dualism
On our most recent podcast, philosophers make the case that if mind is illusion, so too is the scientific enterprise
Ross Douthat Makes the Case that Religious Belief Is Rational
His new book is written largely with the agnostic or full-on atheist in mind but believers would certainly also benefit, as I did
1. When actual experiences challenge the viewpoints of skeptics
Sean McDowell recently hosted J. Steve Miller to talk about his top five believable near-death experiences