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It has been more than three months since (in Metaviews 007.2001.02.09) Varadaraja V. Raman came to my defense against the critical reactions my Why Religion Matters was drawing from participants in Metaviews, but the delay was unavoidable. I have struggled all spring with a physical trauma which reduced me to simply coping with each day….
In the case of computer simulations, following the information trail and finding the place where complex specified information was smuggled in is usually not difficult. I predict it will become more difficult in the future as this shell game becomes more sophisticated, involving more shells and quicker movements of the shells. But just as accounts…
If the role of testimony in knowledge is so vast, why is its role in the history of epistemology so slight?
In 1994, I participated at a C. S. Lewis summer conference at Queens’ College, Cambridge. The event was sponsored by the C. S. Lewis Foundation (Redlands, California) and hosted by John Polkinghorne. A portion of the conference was devoted to design, and proponents of design who spoke at the conference including Phillip Johnson, Stephen Meyer,…
“We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time” – T.S.Eliot, Little Gidding In any enterprise that has been underway for some time, there comes a point at which it is wise to stand back a little and view…
It is crucial to identify the salient features of distinct aspects: science itself, the philosophical view known as scientific realism, the metaphysical ideology of scientific materialism, and the dogmatic form of that ideology known as scientism.
Thomas Jay Oord interviews German Lutheran theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg.
There are good and bad reasons to be skeptical of intelligent design. Perhaps the best reason is that intelligent design has yet to establish itself as a thriving scientific research program. Thus far philosophical, theoretical, and foundational concerns have tended to predominate. From the vantage of design advocates, this simply reflects the earliness of the…
LONDON, 10 MAY — The Revd Canon Dr Arthur Peacocke, recipient of the 2001 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, today said that religions of the world must reconcile their ancient traditions and scriptures with scientific reality if they are to maintain credibility and viability in modern times. In remarks made at London’s Guildhall, where…
It’s not much fun being a cow or a sheep in Englandat the moment. In fact, it is not much fun being anyone in England at the moment. My wife Lizzie just returned from a week’s trip there, and she found the place a bit like a fortress – or a prison, more like. She…