E. Coli at the No Free Lunchroom
Reviewing William Dembski’s case for intelligent design.
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An Excerpt from Rediscovering Teilhard’s Fire
Many evolutionists today subscribe to a version of scientific naturalism that claims to be able to explain all aspects of life, including suffering, in purely biological terms and without having to resort to theological understanding at all.
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Resources and Problems in Whitehead’s Metaphysics
His process metaphysics tends to depersonalize God to the extent of rendering theism irrelevant and naturalize moral evil in the service of evolution.
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Seeing the Thunder: Insight and Intuition in Science, Mathematics and Religion
Insight and intuition abound in the realms of religion and the arts. They also abound in the twin realms of science and mathematics. While believers and artists may attribute them to the inspiring (in-breathing) of divinity or the wondrous workings of a daemon, scientists and mathematicians—though equally amazed and often thankful—are less wont to attribute…
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The New Sciences of Religion: Outside In and Bottom Up
What is thought to be on the inside of religion and what is thought to be outside is something we should continually question. We need to push on these boundaries.
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Education and Its Discontents
A revew of James K. A. Smith’s Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009). There is a growing sense that education, particularly higher education, is in crisis, and books diagnosing the nature of the crisis and offering prescriptions and remedies have become something of a cottage industry. Recent…
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A Catholic Commitment to Process Cosmology
Joseph Bracken’s oeuvre might be read as fulfilling the insatiable quest for answers to the big questions that have perennially moved the human spirit.
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Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist)
I will discuss, and refute, a number of classic arguments against the pantheistic/panentheistic worldview.
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Universalism and Particularism: Judaism in an Age of Science
A review of Norbert M. Samuelson, Jewish Faith and Modern Science: On the Death and Rebirth of Jewish Philosophy (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.) Modern Jews are torn between the particularist teachings of their religious tradition and the universalist aspirations of science (or maybe they should be more so). Of course, other religious traditions…
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Excerpt of God and the New Atheism
The new atheism is simply unchallenging theologically. Its engagement with theology lies at about the same level of reflection on faith that one can find in contemporary creationist and fundamentalist literature.