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Where Can the Small Things Take You?
Thinking Christian | December 1st 2009
Where can the small things take you? Responding to my last point on the distinction between magic and supernaturalism, doctor(logic) offered this: When you make a voodoo doll, don’t you have to follow a recipe and include one of the victim’s hair read more
Will the Public Lose Its (Science) Religion?
Thinking Christian | November 28th 2009
More than two years ago I wrote “Servants of a Twisted God,” including the following: Recently in the influential journal Science, Matthew C. Nisbet and Chris Mooney bemoaned scientists’ difficulties with influencing public policy. read more
The Will to Power–Is “Free Will” All in Your Head?: Scienti…
Thinking Christian | November 16th 2009
This from Scientific American raises interesting questions regarding knowledge: The Will to Power–Is “Free Will” All in Your Head? The author, Christof Koch, apparently wants to balance philosophical questions with scientific ones. read more
BreakPoint: Intelligent Artistry
Thinking Christian | November 10th 2009
BreakPoint has just published my article “Intelligent Artistry: Maybe We Should Read More Poetry,” a response to the new film Darwin’s Dilemma. It’s not a review, but rather more of a reaction to some thoughts the film got me read more
Simon Conway Morris: Darwin was right. Up to a point.
Thinking Christian | November 3rd 2009
From Simon Conway Morris: Indeed it is now legitimate to talk of a logic to biology, not a term you will hear on the lips of many neo-Darwinians. Nevertheless, evolution is evidently following more fundamental rules. Scientific certainly, but ones th read more
More evidence for miscommunication
Thinking Christian | October 30th 2009
Thank you, Larry Fafarman, for answering this, written by Nick Matzke at Panda’s Thumb: Just last week over at the Thinking Christian blog there was a huge stink raised over the alleged inappropriateness of linking ID to creationism. After muc read more
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Thinking Christian | October 19th 2009
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Is ID Creationism?Commenter John on one of the recent Intelligent Design threads said that science never interprets results after bringing them in. I think there’s truth in that as a general p read more
“ID Creationism:” The Communication Question
Thinking Christian | October 16th 2009
This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Is ID Creationism?Cameron said this morning, in the thread, “Maybe They Really Can’t Tell the Difference,” The relevant purpose here, per the OP, is to determine if ID shares enoug read more
ID and Creationism: Learning As I Go
Thinking Christian | October 14th 2009
This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series Is ID Creationism?A few days I posed a tentative question, wondering whether some of those who do not distinguish Intelligent Design from creationism may be exhibiting a kind of worldview blindness, read more
Questions For Those Who Believe ID Is Creationism
Thinking Christian | October 13th 2009
This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series Is ID Creationism?Yesterday in the thread on ID and creationism, a commenter using the handle “Wheels” pointed out, The starting point [for both ID and creationism] is with religion, na read more
Maybe They Really Can’t Tell the Difference
Thinking Christian | October 11th 2009
Several times in the last few days the term “Intelligent Design Creationism” has crossed my line of sight. It’s a misnomer, a duct-taped concatenation of concepts that overlap somewhat, but not enough to merit being stuck together t read more
Review: God’s Philosophers by James Hannam
Thinking Christian | September 25th 2009
Book Review A few weeks ago when I had lunch with Bradley Monton, his colleague and friend Robert Pasnau came along as well. Pasnau introduced himself to me as a philosopher specializing in medieval philosophy. I tried to think of something intellig read more
Chesterton Debating Blatchford On Miracles
Thinking Christian | September 13th 2009
By way of The Point, a dramatic re-creation of written debates between G. K. Chesterton, “The Apostle of Common Sense,” and Robert Blatchford, atheist determinist and socialist. Chesterton’s ability to get to the heart of a question read more
Placebos Are Getting More Effective, Drugmakers Are Desperate to…
Thinking Christian | August 25th 2009
A mystery: It’s not that the old meds are getting weaker, drug developers say. It’s as if the placebo effect is somehow getting stronger. Link: Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why. Part of the drugma read more
God and Science Do Mix
Thinking Christian | August 21st 2009
Just published at BreakPoint: God and Science Do Mix, beginning, In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that is replete with unintended irony, cosmologist Lawrence Krauss says, “Science and God Don’t Mix.” With all due respect for a man who ha read more
Who’s Afraid Of Big Bad Science?
Thinking Christian | August 11th 2009
Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum ask in today’s LA Times, Who in the United States will read Dawkins’ new book (or ones like it) and have any sort of epiphany, or change his or her mind? Surely not those who need it most: America̵ read more
Sam Harris Contra Francis Collins as NIH Head
Thinking Christian | August 6th 2009
I was thinking of writing a response to Sam Harris’s recent bleat against Francis Collins. Collins, a world-class researcher, is also a medical doctor to whom my family owes considerable gratitude for treating one of our family members when he read more
Scientific Bias and Its Cures, or Why Intelligent Design Is Essen…
Thinking Christian | August 1st 2009
Update inserted at 5:45 pm, August 1: There is a group I call “the loyal opposition” who have frequently disagreed with me and other Christians writing here. Of that group, my logs indicate that David Ellis, Ordinary Seeker, Tom Clark, J read more
Lunch With Bradley Monton, “Intelligent Design’s Unlikely Def…
Thinking Christian | July 29th 2009
I just had lunch with Bradley Monton, the University of Colorado philosopher who has stepped up as “Intelligent Design’s Unlikely Defender.” He and his friend/colleague Robert Pasnau were on their way to the Poudre River in northern read more
Intelligent Design’s Unlikely Defender
Thinking Christian | July 28th 2009
BreakPoint has just published my review of Bradley Monton’s new book, with the unexpected but highly intriguing theme expressed in its title: Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design. Monton is a philosopher on the Universi read more
Does Faith Make Sense In An Age of Science?
Thinking Christian | July 20th 2009
Does faith make sense in an age of science? Multiple myths surround the historical relationship between Christianity and science. This talk, given at Seaford Baptist Church on July 12, 2009, explores some of these misunderstandings. Documentation for read more
Science and Religion: Reason vs. Authority?
Thinking Christian | July 17th 2009
A while ago Geoff Arnold pointed out several “oddities” in my view of science and religion. Some of it I responded to on that thread. (The original post was one I had written about Sean Carroll’s Discover Magazine blog entry, “ read more
But Corrective Punishment Makes Perfect Sense, Right?
Thinking Christian | July 13th 2009
I was listening to Reasonable Doubts on the way to work this morning. Reasonable Doubts is a strictly atheistic blog with an associated weekly podcast it, and this episode was to have Tom Clark, of the Center for Naturalism, as a special guest. Tom a read more
Explaining Souls
Thinking Christian | July 13th 2009
In response to one part of a comment from Geoff Arnold: Geoff, the following is apparently your expansion of an assertion you had made earlier of “profound metaphysical problems” with the existence of the soul. [The "Dan" Geoff is speakin read more
Resource List: Faith In An Age of Science
Thinking Christian | July 12th 2009
Resources related to today’s seminar on Faith In An Age of Science. I’m working on making the notes web-friendly. In the meantime you can see or join in a discussion begun yesterday on one of the talk topics, Sean Carroll’s claim o read more
“Science and Religion are Not Compatible” — Discover Magaz…
Thinking Christian | July 11th 2009
Sean Carroll, physicist at CalTech, says science and religion are incompatible—not that they couldn’t be compatible, somewhere, though: It’s not hard to imagine an alternative universe in which science and religion were compatible — o read more
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