Thursday, March 11, 2010

J.L. Mackie & the Buddhist Idea of Evil As An Illusion

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(I took this picture of the famous, and massive, "Reclining Buddha" in Bangkok. The look of tranquility on the face symbolizes ent...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Naturalistic Epistemology as Self-referentially Incoherent

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(An adherent of naturalistic epistemology?) I am nearly finished with William Dembski's The End of Christianity . It really is a treme...
Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Nick Vujicic Article in MCCC's Agora

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Many of you went to hear Nick Vujicic last Thursday evening in Monroe. The Agora (Monroe County Community College's newspaper) has a ni...
Monday, March 08, 2010

Remember the Past and Move On

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(Linda and I, 1973) I remember what, for me, were "the good old days." Linda and I have had plenty of them! Actually, I think sh...
Sunday, March 07, 2010

Internet Addiction

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(Me, doing some online self-reflection.) TimesOnline has an article on internet addiction . Here are some bullets. Does internet addicti...

Asking the Nonscientific Question About the Nature of 'Science'

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("Mad scientist": someone who does science without knowing what 'science' is.) NYU physicist Alan Sokal likes to consid...
Saturday, March 06, 2010

Reflecting on Strobel's "Real Jesus"

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(Self, in Bangkok) I'm reviewing notes I took when I read Lee Strobel's The Case For the Real Jesus . I think this book serves as ...

Jesus Was Not a Capitalist (or Socialist, Marxist, etc-ist...)

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I am not entirely free from the love of money. That's not good. Not, at least, from Jesus' POV. As I have been preaching in our ch...

Two Untruthful Situations

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It is a good thing to know the truth about one's own self. The Jesus-POV is that such truth lies inside a person, in "the heart....
Thursday, March 04, 2010

Atheist Signs to Appear on Detroit Buses

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The atheist bus-sign movement has been around for a while now, first making its mark in Europe. Now it's come to Detroit. Signs will app...