August 28, 2006Posted by Amy Hall Those who advocate the postmodern view of the world (that we construct our world through our language within our separate communities) do so in part because they believe it will be a remedy for violence in the world. If we would only understand that our views are merely the views of our community and not [...]
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July 13, 2006Posted by Amy Hall Some excerpts from the article describing this amazing feat (HT: The Pearcey Report): A man paralysed from the neck down has shown he can open email, control a TV and move objects with a robotic arm by thought alone. The 25-year-old American patient, Matthew Nagle, had a computer-linked implant placed in his brain that enabled [...]
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July 2, 2006Posted by Amy Hall Can we have any true knowledge in a world where we developed by chance? The concept of creation or design is the crucial assumption that believers of the nineteenth century overlooked when they thought the sciences could proceed without any distinctively Christian presuppositions. Apart from the doctrine of creation or design, there is no [...]
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June 21, 2006Posted by Amy Hall “[Fellow seminary student] Joseph heard me out, and after a moment's silence, said: 'You know, they are fooling us, there is no God….' “I was astonished at these words. I had never heard anything like it before. “'How can you say such things, Soso?' I exclaimed. “'I'll lend you a book to read; it will [...]
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June 16, 2006Posted by Amy Hall I thought it would be helpful to define the main idea behind ID theory. Nancy Pearcey explains it simply and clearly: Critics say the concept of design does not belong in science. They argue that it is a “science-stopper” that puts an end to scientific investigation. The head of an evolution advocacy group recently [...]
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June 15, 2006Posted by Amy Hall Ought we to dismiss the work of apologists simply because they’re defending their particular worldviews? In an interesting discussion that ensued in the comments for my recent post on apologists, a reader made this charge: Whereas the rationally-minded individual arrives at a tentative conclusion through argument and logic, the apologist already knows the conclusion, [...]
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May 16, 2006Posted by Amy Hall In his article “We Hobbits are a Merry Folk: An Incautious and Heretical Reappraisal of J.R.R. Tolkien,” David Brin discusses the age-old clash between Romantic and Enlightenment thought. Star Wars vs. Star Trek. A world with ancient wisdom and lords vs. a wisdom-creating democratic society. Brin asks the question, would we be better off [...]
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April 13, 2006Posted by Roger Overton This is the 3rd and final part of my interview with R. Scott Smith. He is the author of Truth and the New Kind of Christian, our A-Team Blog Book of the Year for 2005. Foundationalism is an example of where McLaren and Jones have mischaracterized modernism. What is an example of how they have [...]
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April 12, 2006Posted by Roger Overton In chapter four, you explain some of the ways postmodernism has affected our schools. As an example, could you summarize the impact postmodernism has had on the teaching of law? Often people understand law as a human product, and not something that transcends us. Influenced by postmodern thought, people tend to be suspicious of claims [...]
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March 28, 2006Posted by Roger Overton Dozens of books have been published in recent years debating the extent of God’s sovereignty and knowledge of future events. Few of these works, however, examine the far-reaching implications of the views they propose. In The Benefits of Providence philosopher James Spiegel fills in this gap by applying the Augustinian view of providence to several [...]
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