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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Not A Body
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. . Chapter…
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Stephen Hawking Thinks Too Much Of Us; More
Autumn of the Modern Ages What!? You haven't headed over to Mike Flynn's place and read his series The Autumn of the Modern Ages? Sometimes I don't understand you people…
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Richard Carrier’s Argument To Show God’s Existence Unlikely Is Invalid And Unsound
In the comment section to an earlier piece of mine on Strange Notions, Richard Carrier invited me to "interact" with him through his article "Neither Life nor the Universe Appears…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: How Through Reason We’ll Prove God’s Existence
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. This is the last of the necessary but, it must be…
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Decadence Data: Or, A Doomed Demos Dances
All of these indicators of our quickening hoot-hollering yeah-baby! slide into the muck made the news on the same day. We dare not cast our net wider for fear of…
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True Reason: Confronting the Irrationality of the New Atheism Reviewed
Answer me honestly. How rational is it to believe any of the following: Science can explain everything, even itself; The reason anything exists is because of the laws of gravity,…
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Are We Hard-Wired for Faith? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Bob Kurland is a "retired, cranky, old physicist." This article originally ran in modified form at Reflections of a Catholic Scientist. "Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart…
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Could A Virgin Birth Ever Really Happen?
In an article Salon mistitled "About that 'immaculate' conception"1---the immaculate conception speaks of St Mary's entry into the world, not Jesus's---Daniel Engber, a developmental neuroscientist at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, gives us…