May 12, 2006Posted by Roger Overton One year ago today, Garrett posted some excerpts from an interview Gary Habermas did with former atheist Antony Flew. This evening, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the A-Team post, Biola University will be awarding Dr. Flew with The Phillip E. Johnson Award for Liberty and Truth for 2006. Timbo and I are here to [...]
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January 24, 2006Posted by Amy Hall Author and secular humanist Kurt Vonnegut was interviewed on NPR (listen here) yesterday morning. His assertion at the beginning of the interview that “Karl Marx got a bum rap,” has been getting some attention. However, there's a much more unexpected exchange towards the end of the interview about the “tribal” thinking among scientists–how they take [...]
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December 14, 2005Posted by Roger Overton Beliefnet recently posted an interview with Richard Dawkins called “The Problem with God.” It is a fascinating discussion, and I highly recommend reading the whole thing. Briefly, I find the following problems in Dawkins' responses: 1) Overlooking epistemological issues. He says, “I would want them to believe whatever evidence leads them to; I would want [...]
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June 22, 2005Posted by Amy Hall In the article I quoted yesterday, the author refers to “The Wedge Document” (see a summary here), a document drafted by the Discovery Institute to explain its long-term strategy for debunking materialism (the idea that the physical world is all that exists). The document opens with this paragraph: The proposition that human beings are [...]
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June 21, 2005Posted by Amy Hall A friend just sent me an article from the May 30, 2005 issue of The New Yorker titled “Devolution: Why intelligent design isn’t.“ Despite the fact that the author, H. Allen Orr, calls intelligent design “junk science” and claims that the hype over the movement (and William Dembski’s work in particular) only exists “because an [...]
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May 12, 2005Posted by Roger Overton Antony Flew's conversion from atheism to deism (via, in large part, Intelligent Design arguments) is, perhaps, old news. When I finally got around to reading the latest issue of Phil Christi, however (in which is printed the transcript of Flew's interview with Gary Habermas), I discovered some choice morsels having to do with unexpected topics. [...]
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April 15, 2005Posted by Amy Hall In light of our recent discussion on intelligent design, I thought I would pass along this notice I just received. No matter which side you're on, this should be interesting: An exclusive FREE lecture with Dr. William Dembski “The Intelligent Design Revolution” Monday, April 18, 7:30pm, Sutherland Auditorium, Biola University Is [...]
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April 1, 2005Posted by Amy Hall Details here. A couple of quotes and comments on the article: “The open intrusion of religious dogma into the highest levels of government is stunning. Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court speaks of 'the fact that government derives its authority from God'….” Apparently, Mr. Krauss is not familiar with a little document I like [...]
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March 31, 2005Posted by Amy Hall Consider this quote from one of the astronomers mentioned in my last post: Religion and science are not the same, nor are they equivalent. One answers questions about the universe: a profound capability. The other has all the answers and inspires little–if any–questioning abut its underpinnings. It is a salve; a comforter. At times [...]
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March 30, 2005Posted by Amy Hall My sister sent me a conversation today from a discussion list for people who run planetariums. The concerned participants were trying to figure out how to deal with the wacko Christians who view their planetarium shows and then argue that God created the universe. When dealing with young children, they suggest you ought not tell [...]
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