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Tag Archives: science
God in Science: No Need for that Hypothesis
It’s funny how one can remember something read decades earlier but cannot remember the contents of a book read only last week. Back in seminary I read a little book by Arthur A. Vogel titled The Power of His Resurrection. … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged creatio ex nihilo, creation, deism, Diogenes Allen, God, God of the gaps, Isaac Newton, science, universe
1 Comment
Doing Faithful Biblical Criticism
How do we learn who Jesus of Nazareth “really” was? The question assumes that there was in fact a historical person named Jesus. Jesus’ existence has been contested in the past; but I doubt there are many serious historians today … Continue reading
Posted in Bible
Tagged Alvin Plantinga, biblical criticism, David Hume, history, Jesus Christ, miracles, naturalism, science
5 Comments
Can Reason Prove the Existence of God?
Back in 1974, after five or six years of atheism, I began to believe in the existence of God. I couldn’t have been more surprised. I thought my atheism was rock-solid. So what effected the change? A philosophical argument. Yes, … Continue reading
Posted in Aquinas, Philosophical Theology
Tagged Aquinas, atheism, five ways, God, James Kiefer, proof, reason, science, theism
22 Comments
Amir Aczel, Science, and the Existence of God
Not only do the atheists not seem to get it, but a lot of theists apparently don’t either. I’m referring here to Amir Aczel, the author of Why Science Does Not Disprove God. I have not read Aczel’s book, but he … Continue reading
Posted in Herbert McCabe & Friends
Tagged atheism, creation, God, Herbert McCabe, science, theism, universe
17 Comments
Double Agency: Conceiving Divine and Creaturely Causality
We begin, I suggest, by getting clear in our minds the kind of relationship that exists between Creator and creatures: God’s creative activity is not external to the universe, as is our relation to such things as stoves and books. … Continue reading
Posted in Herbert McCabe & Friends, Philosophical Theology
Tagged Austin Farrer, causality, creation, Diogenes Allen, double agency, God, Herbert McCabe, physics, providence, science, universe
4 Comments
Exorcizing the God of the Gaps
The rise of modern science created a problem for Christian theology. If God is not scientifically needed to explain why water freezes at 32°F or why the stars come out at night, if the universe is just a self-powered machine … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged atheism, big bang, cosmology, creatio ex nihilo, creation, deism, God, God of the gaps, modern science, science
10 Comments
God in Science–No Need for that Hypothesis
It’s funny how one can remember something read decades earlier but cannot remember the contents of a book read only last week. Back in seminary I read a little book by Arthur A. Vogel titled The Power of His Resurrection. … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged creation, deism, Diogenes Allen, divine agency, God, God of the gaps, immanence, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Laplace, science, transcendence, universe
9 Comments