Here are all of the things I have been meaning to post but have not yet had the time… If the face is the window to the conscious mind, a few psychologists have cracked the code. Sylvan S. Tomkins and Paul Ekman spent years decoding the face, and deduced far more about human emotion made…
DetailsToTheSource last week noted something interesting that scientism is doing to our way of thinking: As the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said, scholars have a tendency to dig up what they themselves have buried—that is, their presuppositions determine the results of their studies. They therefore “discover” exactly what they wanted to find. That is no less…
Detailsas opposed to FROM it, is from the problem of evil. As Christians, this is the one we encounter on a daily basis, and it can make us feel like Job shouting at God sometimes. Why does life contain such suffering and pain? How can God stand idly by while such atrocities persist – man-made…
DetailsAlvin Plantinga, perhaps the greatest living philosopher of religion / theologian of philosophy, Calvinist extraordinaire, almost Amish-looking, and very deep-voiced gentleman gives your lecture this week, about the argument for God from naturalistic evolution, for which he is famous. A tricky one, this guy…
Brad Thompson presents your lecture of the week this week, explaining how the search for equality will always end in the violation of rights, while noting that most of those on the left today are not socialists in the strictest sense, but rather full-fledged communists.
+ If there is no God, then all that exists is time and chance acting on matter. If this is true then the difference between your thoughts and mine correspond to the difference between shaking up a bottle of Mountain Dew and a bottle of Dr. Pepper. You simply fizz atheistically and I fizz theistically.…
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