We should be very careful in how we reason from even the best of facts by way of the most sincere respect for empirical reality even if we have proper respect for plausibly conjectured abstract realms of being. We all carry in our heads and hearts and even in our ways of behavior something that … [Read more…]
Bruce Schneier, a prominent expert in cryptography and other areas of security, regularly provides interesting commentary, sometimes technical in nature and sometimes philosophical or sociological. In his blog post of 2013/07/09, Another Perspective on the Value of Privacy, Schneier merely provides a short quote from and link to an opinion piece at the website of … [Read more…]
Let me recount some of the ways in which we modern Christians are confused: We are still trying to apply categorical reasoning to creatures and relationships in a world of evolutionary and developmental processes. We have no way, even in principle, of saying which of our ancestors was the first creature to fall into the … [Read more…]
Most human beings alive in this year of our Lord 2013 freely and fully accept the evidence that the human race wasn’t a special creation by God. Our ancestors were knuckle-draggers who rose from that position to one we consider, with some prejudice perhaps, to be more noble. Remarkably, many who have accepted our biological … [Read more…]
This is the third and final part of this essay. The first part dealt with an essay by Donald Kagan, Ave atque vale, which provides a highly summarized history of liberal arts education in the West along with a few hints toward a profound understanding of human knowledge and education and, finally, an assessment of … [Read more…]