Harold Koenig and colleagues are confident that improving the quality of research will strengthen the usefulness of the overall database.
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The mind that is having a near-death experience is separated from the body, relying on its own concepts. It is not necessarily a channel of divine truth.
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It’s not just about religion. Neither the Greeks nor the Romans could save their Republics once most people stopped believing in the values that created them.
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Today, people can be atheists and dismiss Darwin all the same. So Christian evangelists and apologists need to reckon with that.
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Goff’s eclectic philosophical journey is not likely over. But, generally, it is best to assume that the New Testament authors meant what they said.
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Or just an end to conundrums that aren’t really conundrums if that fact is faced. There is a lot we could be doing with the same expenditure of time, energy, and intellectual skill.
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Egnor describes faith as a deep relationship that may not always yield happiness about life circumstances but fosters lasting joy, independent of circumstances.
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Perhaps many people no longer see the triumph of hardcore materialism as inevitable — or even possible.
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Religious freedom includes the right to maintain sacred sites as well as to worship freely.
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Fr. Hilbert notes that such documented lucid experiences as he recounts can hardly be the mere outcome of a dying brain shutting down.
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The view Murphy outlines at Closer to Truth has more in common with modern materialism than with a traditional Christian understanding of the human soul.
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The genome mapper is widely cited as a famous Christian in science but West asks us to look a little deeper — into his actual policies.
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He notes, if our brains evolved merely to help us stay alive, then it’s strange that those same mental states could invent the telescope to explore the cosmos.
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Fr. Hilbert shows that we have not found anything that justifies a Darwinian approach to life as somehow more compatible with science than a Christian one.
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The great Catholic theologian Aquinas noted that “what happens in the working of nature is either always, or mostly, for the better,” which rules out chance.
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Smith: “It’s really hard, but I hope you’ll consider what I have to share and stop telling people they should use AI in ministry.”
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“The world is intelligible,” Ross Douthat said to Jonah Goldberg on “The Remnant” podcast. Douthat, an opinion columnist at The New York Times, has a new book coming out on religion and why “everyone should be more religious,” and he joined Goldberg to discuss the book along with our current political landscape. Douthat, a Catholic, referenced fine tuning and the profound evidence of intentional design in nature as one of the motivations for his own faith. He told Goldberg that it’s remarkable that we have minds that are able to accurately comprehend the world around us, let alone the chemical makeup of the universe. Our questioning natures, bent on discovering the truth of things, demonstrate that we live in something Read More ›
Dennett may be best remembered for inadvertently helping to reduce the popularity of atheism
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The challenge, he argues, is to maintain Christian values while challenging Christian leaders who compromise in order to stay safe and successful.
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Stark, reappraising the role of religion, found that seeing history through a positivist, materialist lens reduces its complexities to caricatures.
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