Asseverations and Ejaculations
[This is part of the as yet unfinished section of the “Which Science? chapter.] The argument over evolution versus intelligent design … is a relatively…
I have done quite a lot of blogging under this heading lately so I thought it might be useful to get all the posts used…
[This is the final section of the book. I will return to the section on neurobiology and religion later.] The backfire effect If science is…
[This is part of the final chapter. It is unfinished, but I have to move on to some other activities, so it may not be…
[This is the penultimate chapter. I can’t be bothered trying to get the references or footnotes included in the posts, so you’ll have to wait for the book. Some of this has appeared on the blog before in less well written form, so don’t worry about the deja vu]
All religious systems, it is confessed, are subject to great and insuperable difficulties. Each disputant triumphs in his turn; while he carries on an offensive war, and exposes the absurdities, barbarities, and pernicious tenets of his antagonist. But all of them, on the whole, prepare a complete triumph for the Sceptic; who tells them, that no system ought ever to be embraced with regard to such subjects: For this plain reason, that no absurdity ought ever to be assented to with regard to any subject. A total suspense of judgement is here our only reasonable resource. [Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, VIII]
Robert J. Berry is a geneticist at University College London. He is also an evangelical Christian and has written a number of works on the…
Some religions have no real view of history, while others hold to some kind of eternal cycle, but the western religions have a narrative with…
If science and religion do conflict, what are the points of conflict that have occurred? These tend to have arisen in historical contexts as the…
So given that it is not entirely clear what religion is, or even what science is, it would help if we could put the arguments…
[As I write the first draft of my accommodationism book, I will post chapters here under the Category “Accommodationism”. Here is the latest – which…
