I might be adding 1 to 1 and getting 5, but… In recent years, I’ve been reading a bit about human ancestry, especially that of those peoples with languages and cultures and at least some substantial amount of genes which came from some (proto-)Indo-European people. These peoples include Europeans, Iranians, northern Asiatic Indians, and some … [Read more…]
Please accept my apologies for any confusion or incoherence. This is a line of thought in the early stages of development. Razib Khan, a geneticist, published an article in his blog which I’ve discussed before—see Mathematical Models of Human History: Are They Plausible?. Khan’s article, Modeling World History in Math Is Possible, is a commentary … [Read more…]
Jesus tells of a master going on a journey and entrusting a part of his treasure to some servants (3 or 10, there are multiple recorded versions). On his return, some had invested the portion entrusted to them and had made a profit. In each version, one servant had merely hidden away his share of … [Read more…]
[This entry is part of a work-in-progress which will deal with the evolution of the human mind as we can see it in the work of St. Thomas Aquinas, Albert Einstein, and other great thinkers — an entity capable of shaping itself to empirical reality in such a way that it can draw forth abstract … [Read more…]
On my other blog, To See a World in a Grain of Sand, I’ll be trying to post a series of weekly entries throughout the 2008-2009 Christian liturgical year which begins on 2008/11/30. This is a major effort for me as my worldview aims at viewing Creation as unified, coherent, and complete. To a Christian, … [Read more…]
[How Brains Make Up Their Minds, Walter J. Freeman, Columbia University Press, 2000] Intentionality in the doctrine of Aquinas does not require consciousness, but it does require acting to create meaning instead of just thinking. This view is shared by the philosophers Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, J.J. Gibson, and the pragmatists. We sniff, move our … [Read more…]
I’ve published a short, spiritual book about achieving peace in a restless world. See Synopsis for The Peace of Christ for information or go directly to the publisher’s order page, The Peace of Christ. The book should appear on major internet bookseller sites before long.
[Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World, Gerd Gigerenzer, Oxford University Press, 2000] In the introduction to Part IV, Professor Gigerenzer tells us: The “discovery” of cognitive illusions was not the first assault on human rationality. Sigmund Freud’s attack is probably the best known: According to him, the unconscious wishes and desires of the human … [Read more…]
It sounds strange to speak of God creating truths — even God, but I have two lines of reasoning that lead to this conclusion that God has created the truths of our universe, mathematical and metaphysical, as well as the things of our universe. I discuss this claim in my book To See a World … [Read more…]
I may confuse the search engines, but better to do it early on. I changed to a title more descriptive of my efforts as a thinker and writer and worshiper of God. To gain some slight understanding of the new title, go to the page on my only published book, “To See a World in … [Read more…]