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Tag Archives: science
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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