Recent Posts Tagged With 'religion'

• From the Archives: Advice for Those Buying a Used Religion

  Posted on Monday June 29th, 2009 at 23:06 in baloney detection, carl sagan, christian, cold war, daniel dennett, fundamentalism, hal lindsay, Holocaust, islamic, nuclear, plutarch, religion

  This is a second repost of something I wrote on my old blog about Carl Sagan's The Varieties of Scientific Experience, which are essentially a transcript of his Gifford Lectures. Sagan's approach to r...

• Lost Finales and Continuing Reviews

  Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 10:48 in Faith, finale, jacob, lost, religion, science

  There is a post on the Doc Artz site with a delayed review of the Lost season 5 finale, and speculations about season 6 and the show's ultimate end, interacting with many of the religious themes. It i...

• LOST Entangled

  Posted on Monday June 8th, 2009 at 09:34 in backgammon, dualism, egyptian, esau, evil, good, island, jacob, lost, oceanic flight 815, religion, statue

  Two blogs today revisited the television show LOST, including mention of some of its religious themes and overtones. Since I have (as always) been pondering its mysteries, I thought I would join in th...

• Quote of the Day (Cheryl Shepherd-Adams)

  Posted on Friday May 29th, 2009 at 15:00 in cdesign proponentsists, creationism, dead parrot sketch, discovery institute, Evolution, intelligent design, monty python, pseudoscience, religion

  "The Discovery Institute seems to have given up on the pretense that intelligent design is a scientific enterprise. As in, this pretense is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet ...

• Review of Philip Clayton, Adventures in the Spirit

  Posted on Friday May 29th, 2009 at 07:22 in book review, christian, Liberal, panentheism, philip clayton, process, religion, science, theology

  Here's a table of contents with links to the recent posts reviewing and interacting with Philip Clayton's book Adventures in the Spirit: God, World, Divine Action.IntroductionPart OnePart TwoPart Thre...

• Adventures in the Spirit: Part Four

  Posted on Wednesday May 27th, 2009 at 12:25 in adventures in the spirit, christianity, divine action, Liberal, miracles, philip clayton, protestant, religion, science

  In Part Four of Adventures in the Spirit, Philip Clayton focuses on one of the toughest theological issues, namely divine action. Abstract discussion of concepts of God are perhaps meaningless, but ce...

• Adventures in the Spirit: Part One

  Posted on Monday May 18th, 2009 at 08:51 in adventures in the spirit, metaphysics, methodology, philip clayton, religion, science, theology, traction

  In Part One of his book Adventures in the Spirit: God, World, Divine Action, Philip Clayton explores the methods of philosophy and theology. Chapter 1 is entitled "Critical Faith: Theology in the Mids...

• Quote of the Day (Denis Diderot)

  Posted on Tuesday May 12th, 2009 at 08:47 in denis diderot, doubt, philip clayton, philosophy, piety, religion

  “Doubts in the matter of religion, far from being acts of impiety, ought to be seen as good works, when they belong to a man who humbly recognizes his ignorance and is motivated by the fear of displ...

• Around the Blogosphere

  Posted on Monday May 11th, 2009 at 11:20 in biblioblogging, existence of god, historical jesus, history, new testament, pseudepigraphy, religion, samson, science, suicide bomber

  There have been some incredibly substantive posts around the blogosphere over the past couple of days. In the domain of New Testament: Loren Rosson has an extensive overview and review of John P. Meie...

• Blogging Adventures in the Spirit

  Posted on Tuesday May 5th, 2009 at 21:35 in adventures in the spirit, arthur peacocke, Nature, panentheism, philip clayton, philosophy, religion, science, theology

  Although there are all sorts of spiritual adventures that can involve blogging, I am referring here to Philip Clayton's recent book Adventures in the Spirit: God, World, Divine Action (Minneapolis: Fo...

• Biblical Scholars and Personal Religion

  Posted on Wednesday April 15th, 2009 at 22:04 in Bible, biblical, empire strikes back, ewoks, Faith, God, hoth, hurley, lost, Personal, religion, scholars

  It is exciting to learn that a new blog has been created by Alan Lenzi, devoted to the subject of Biblical Scholars and Personal Religion. Take a look!On an unrelated note, I just can't bring myself t...

• Judged by the Smoke Monster

  Posted on Thursday April 9th, 2009 at 23:04 in anubis, benjamin linus, christian, christianity, education, fundamentalism, lost, religion, repentance, smoke monster, smokey, triablogue

  In the most recent episode of LOST, as in other earlier ones, we saw the "smoke monster" make someone confront their past, with the aim of bringing about repentance and a change in them. In my recent ...

• Miracles and the Golden Rule: A Christian Approach to History

  Posted on Wednesday April 8th, 2009 at 08:24 in bias, born again, conservative, evangelicalism, experience, golden rule, history, Liberal, method, miracles, pluralism, religion

  One doesn't have to be committed in advance to history's inability to deal with miracles in order to begin to realize that one cannot claim that Christianity is grounded purely in history while other ...

• Quote of the Day (Phil Plait)

  Posted on Friday March 27th, 2009 at 09:33 in bad astronomy, creationism, Faith, nonsense, phil plait, pseudoscience, religion, science, young earth

  "It’s dead obvious that creationism isn’t science, or even bad science. It’s nonsense. But I’ve long stated it’s also bad religion, because it doesn’t just take faith, it also takes a phen...

• Sin and Sci-Fi

  Posted on Thursday March 26th, 2009 at 18:11 in lost, religion, sayid jarrah, science fiction, time travel

  Charlie Anders at IO9 has a post on the 7 Deadly Sins of Religion in Science Fiction. It is definitely worth reading, as it insightfully identified examples of "all too easy" plot options in this vein...

• Bye Bye Battlestar

  Posted on Monday March 23rd, 2009 at 11:02 in cylons, earth, finale, God, humans, religion

  How can one encapsulate in a blog post the finale that brought to an end one of the most fascinating shows on television in recent years? A show that took a show from a couple of decades earlier and r...

• TRON: The Flynncarnation

  Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 20:58 in 2.0, Computers, flynn, incarnation, religion, religious fanatics, tr2n, tron, virtual reality

  I watched the movie TRON with my son tonight, not having seen it for many years. I was afraid he might find the graphics and special effects pretty lame, having grown up with movies that featured adv...

• Quote of the Day (Batson and Ventis)

  Posted on Thursday March 12th, 2009 at 08:05 in experience, language, literal, literalism, Psychology, religion, Religious, social sciences, symbolic, symbolism, Transformation

  "Synthetic symbolic religious language has creative potential only to the degree that it is recognized to be symbolic, not literal, language. If it is treated as literal, then the symbols themselves b...

• Philosophy of Religion Call for Submissions

  Posted on Thursday March 12th, 2009 at 07:37 in call for papers, journal, ohio, philosophy, publication, religion, student, university of toledo

  I thought I'd pass this on...CALL FOR PAPERSThe University of Toledo student Journal of Philosophy is currently accepting submissions for the Spring 2009 volume. The general theme of this volume isPhi...

• Obama on the Bible: Protecting Isaac from Abraham

  Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 08:08 in abraham, barack, child abuse, christianity, isaac, law, obama, President, religion, science, society, stem cells

  As president Obama, himself a Christian, continues to make decisions about stem cells and other matters that most Republican Christians disagree with him on, it is worth seeing again this speech about...

• Quote of the Day (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

  Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 21:19 in atheism, Faith, God, journal, ralph waldo emerson, religion, science, suicide, truth

  "The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. "-–Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal entry for March 4, 1831...

• Partial Knowlege, Totally Dangerous

  Posted on Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 at 12:29 in capitalism, charles darwin, christianity, communism, creationism, daniel dennett, economics, Evolution, ideology, racism, religion, social darwinism

  We human beings have a tendency to take what little information we have and extrapolate from it into a worldview that guides our lives and our decisions. Perhaps that is inevitable. What makes it par...

• Evolution and Religion Around the Blogosphere

  Posted on Sunday February 22nd, 2009 at 17:38 in biology, calvinism, creationism, Evolution, GERD, Germany, intelligent design, ludemann, luedemann, religion, science, tiktaalik

  Given that my last few posts have been about religion and science, I was struck by how many other blogs I read have also converged on this topic.Cliff Martin highlights the problem with Intelligent De...

• Evolution Sunday Quote of the Day (Dr. Isis)

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 17:38 in 1 corinthians, 1 thessalonians, biology, Catholicism, christianity, endothelial-mediated vasodilation, Evolution, religion, science, scientists, transubstantiation

  "As a scientist I conduct research the same way everyone else does (or, so I assume), guided by the scientific method. I attempt to interpret my data using my current knowledge of physiology, and I d...

• Gabriel McKee's Evil Twin?

  Posted on Sunday February 8th, 2009 at 19:10 in christianity, gabriel mckee, james herrick, mythology, religion, Sci-fi, science fiction

  If you haven't seen it already, Gabriel McKee has written a review, entitled "Wrong on Religion; Wrong on Science Fiction", for Internet Review of Science Fiction. It is a review of a book by James He...

• Update on the Mandaeans, February 2009

  Posted on Friday February 6th, 2009 at 13:51 in april deconick, iran, iraq, mandaeans, nathaniel deutsch, persecution, refugees, religion, United States, wisam breegi

  Thanks to April DeConick for drawing attention to a news piece on WFCR about the situation of the Mandaeans both in Iraq and in the United States. You can listen to the whole thing there....

• Quote of the Day (Mordecai Kaplan)

  Posted on Tuesday January 27th, 2009 at 23:01 in analysis, civilization, judaism, mordecai kaplan, progress, Psychology, reconstructionism, religion, science

  "Just as science entered upon a new stage in its development when it replaced the deductive method with the inductive, so can religion parallel the progress of science by subjecting its own assumption...

• Quote of the Day (Mike Leaptrott)

  Posted on Sunday January 25th, 2009 at 15:12 in christianity, doubt, Faith, lemonade, mike leaptrott, progression of faith, reason, recipes, religion, sugar

  "Lately, I've come to see faith and doubt as complimentary ingredients in our cocktail of thought. When was the last time you enjoyed a glass of lemon juice or a spoon full of sugar? We may disagree a...