Showing posts with label materialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label materialism. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Demanding Scientific Proof for the Soul is Like Valuing a Sunset by Its Price Tag

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I recently had a discussion with an atheist on where we debated the reality of the soul. During a Twitter exchange, I had mentioned the...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Atheists Assuming Too Much from Neuroscience

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Most atheists today are materialists. They don't believe people have immaterial souls and think that all of our experiences and thou...
Monday, October 19, 2015

I Think, Therefore God Exists

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Rene Descartes is famous for his quest to identify at least one thing that was absolutely certain. He considered what he saw and what ...
Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Consciousness Undermines Evolution

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In his groundbreaking book Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False , philoso...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015

We are More than Our Brains – The Reality of the Soul

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Last week I was invited to a college campus to answer questions about Christianity and the Bible. The event was hosted by the local Chr...
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Thursday, September 10, 2015

Why Claiming “Belief is a Psychological Crutch” Backfires

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I just had the opportunity to listen to a recent Unbelievable? podcast where Christian biologist Zachary Ardern squared off against Pe...
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Saturday, April 11, 2015

Why it Is Reasonable and Scientific to Consider the Soul

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A 2008 article in the magazine New Scientist by Amanda Gefter criticized several Christian philosophers for rejecting a purely physicalist ...
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Friday, September 26, 2014

Why Our Culture's Value of Feelings Will Be Its Downfall

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How much do your feelings matter? Are they the most important thing in deciding whether you're living a successful life? Many people t...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Why Evolution Cannot Produce a Mind

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Yesterday, I posted an article declaring how the mind is a fundamentally different kind of thing than the brain. I wanted to follow up ...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

Why Your Mind Cannot Be Your Brain

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When I was a child, my mother used to look in at the clutter of room and exclaim, "How in the world can you leave your room in such a ...
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Thursday, January 02, 2014

If We're Only Our Bodies, Life Is Meaningless

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What is the thing that makes me me? I found an interesting comic on the Internet the other day that does a great job in unpacking one of ...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

G.K. Chesterton on Materialist Beliefs

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"For we must remember that the materialist philosophy (whether true or not) is certainly much more limiting than any religion. In on...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Thomas Nagel on Why Materialism Fails to Explain Reason

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Is reasoning ability based in only biology? We have sense perceptions, such as sight or taste, and those could be explained by the need for ...
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Friday, December 24, 2010

Christian Megathemes: Thinking Less About Stuff and More About God

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We've recently been looking at the Barna Group's findings of six Christian Megathemes —dramatic shifts in beliefs, attitudes and ...