Category Archives: Philosophy, Science & Religion
The One And Only One?
I had some Jehovah’s Witnesses at the door the other day – and in the ensuing conversation I asked them how they knew that their God was the one and only true God out there. They couldn’t really answer that … Continue reading
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Tagged Existence of God, God, Intelligent Design, Jehovah Witness, logical falacy, religion, Religious Faith, St. Anselm, St. Thomas Aquinas, unproven assumption
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Leave Your Brain At Home When You Go To Church
In 1962 – not really all that long ago – the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church issued the following monitum – or reprimand – regarding the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, (1881-1955), a French Jesuit priest who … Continue reading
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Tagged evolution, Monitum, Original Sin, Relious Doctrine, Roman Catholic Church, Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
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Creationism and other Bedtime Stories
Over the years I have watched – somewhat bemused, I must admit – the ongoing debate between the proponents of the theory of evolution and those who hold that everything that exists today is the instantaneous product of an act … Continue reading
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Tagged Creationism, evolution, intellectual dishonesty, super natural beings, theory versus fantasy
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The Meaning of Meaning
Meaning is a function of context – the framework of relationships between people, things and events that bear on a thing or event such that they are placed within this framework in a way that value is provided to the … Continue reading
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Tagged finding meaning, framework of relationships, meaning, subjectivity, the context of meaning
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Moving Beyond Survival
Much if not most of what drives a human being today appears to be rooted in the basic need to survive. Initially very much like the animal that is an intrinsic part of us, we would have had to compete … Continue reading
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Tagged human survival, need to survive, survival as an end in itself
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The Cosmos Explained – Well, Maybe …
There is a scene in the movie Terminator 2, where the next generation terminator – who had morphed himself into a cop – is frozen solid after a tanker truck filled with liquid nitrogen spills its load all over him. … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmology, cosmos, evolution
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Does God Have a Belly Button?
According to the Christian bible, God created man in his own image. So this question occurred to me: Given that we have one, does God have a belly button? Yes, I know that is a silly question, but I’m sure … Continue reading
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Tagged creation, Creationism, discovery, God, mankind
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Only the Day after Tomorrow Belongs to Me.
” … Some are born posthumously.” This is Nietzsche’s way of saying that he has looked beyond the current wretched condition of humanity and is anticipating the arrival of an enlightened being who represents a new and superior iteration of … Continue reading
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Tagged evolution, human condition, human race, Nietzsche, self-destructive, Übermensch
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Religious Beliefs
Although beliefs can and do support each other, they cannot justify each other as at some point a belief must be anchored to reality in order for a belief structure to have any merit at all. Take religious beliefs for … Continue reading
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Tagged beliefs, justification, religious beliefs
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Escape from Entropy?
The second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy of any thermodynamically isolated system not at thermodynamic equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value, at which point the universe – as we know it – … Continue reading
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Tagged Entropy, evolution, Thermodynamics
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