In my opinion, one of the first things we need to do - if we want to combine our faith with logic and reason - is recognize that there are many contradictions in the Bible, and we really have no way of knowing whether it's all the "Word of God" all the word of Man (literally, just men 40+ of...
Religion is a two-edged sword. How, when and by whom it's wielded - and in which battles - determines its impact on humanity, from individually to globally. I think the challenge here is to take what's spiritually helpful from religion and recognize the rest for what it is: a set of rituals and...
"He drags people into sins" makes it sound as if people don't have a choice. Is that really the case? The biblical Job suffered tremendous pain and degradation didn't he, but isn't he an example of what is mentioned at the end of one of the passages you quoted: (1 Peter 5:8-9) "Resist him...
It is possible that our human brains just aren't capable (yet, at least) of conceptualizing such things as the origins of the Universe. For example, take the idea of the "beginning of time". For anything to have a beginning means that at some point in TIME it didn't exist, then at some later...
The whole term "living machine" is an oxymoron... kinda like "real artificial intelligence". Computer programs can mimic human intelligence (that's why it's called artificial) and what these scientists have created mimics life. Then there's the whole philosophical discussion about what we...
Our human brains are hardwired only to respond to stimuli in a very narrow range. For example we can't see radio waves, or gamma rays or hear ultrasonic sounds. We know such phenomena exist only because science and technology evolved to the point where they could be detected.
Given the...
Our human brains are hardwired only to respond to stimuli in a very narrow range. For example we can't see radio waves, or gamma rays or hear ultrasonic sounds. We know such phenomena exist only because science and technology evolved to the point where they could be detected.
Given the...
First of all, we can never be certain that any faith is true. See Faith’s Inferno If we could be certain it were true then it would be a fact, not a faith. It is certainly true that statistically speaking we will inherit the faith of our predominant culture, families and so forth. That...