Modern empirical knowledge, the social sciences as well as physics and biology, point towards a world of development and not one of stable entities. Nor do we have any reason to believe in short-cuts that bring a more primitive entity to an advanced state such as that in which a hairless ape is capable of … [Read more…]
I wish to make a simple point, seemingly obvious but perhaps only because I’ve spent the past 20 years of my life teaching myself how to read and write books of substance, books which are worth reading by objective standards. When a friend recently read two of my theological books (one unpublished) and three of … [Read more…]
This is a rather broad field but I should qualify my discussion at the very beginning. I’ll talk mostly about an error which has never been purged from Christian and Jewish thought: the tendency to tie God to the universe as we know it so that the Lord Almighty becomes a super-creature.
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…]
This article states the obvious truth about our moral confusion and makes the valid distinction between ends and means. Americans have always been confused about this distinction, often because of the domination of practical reasoning in the American mind. As I point out in my book “To See a World in a Grain of Sand: … [Read more…]
In my blog entry on the debate between Einstein and Bohr on the meaning of reality, I spoke of relationships being primary. It is relationships which bring substance into being, as Bohr was arguing in an obscure way. In a seemingly separate line of arguments in my book “To See a World in a Grain … [Read more…]
Mostly, we owe everything to our Creator, but there seems to be a general human desire to elaborate on even the most obvious truths. Consequently, I am providing a pdf file justice.pdf for the amusement of anyone who might care. The file can be downloaded or read in place using something like Adobe Reader.
God is transcendent and immanent. That is, He lives as a necessary being, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, His own Act-of-being, but He also exists in each and every thing, each and every second of time, each and every volume of space. Not even the emptiest space of our universe could not continue to … [Read more…]
On the whole, it has been a smooth road to setting up a website, partly because I chose to use WordPress as a simple content management system as well as blogger software. The remaining problems to finalizing a simple website are not too bad. When I copy up some text from my local emacs to … [Read more…]
No, I didn’t claim Darwinism is sexy, only that Darwinism is sexual. And it’s more accurate to say evolutionary theory is more sexual than natural, since Darwinism is at least arguably an ideology only accidentally connected to a valid field of study.