This seminar was presented at the Creation Study Group, Greenville, SC in February 2012. In it I talk about how the love of death, so apparent in the green movement and dark green religion, is a logical consequence of the belief that humans are animal, different in no significant way from pond scum. Once one [...]
Philosophy and Religion
Should God get tenure? (ed.) David W. Gill Eerdmans, 1997. Introduction: Should God Get Tenure? David W. Gill p. 4 For Marsden, the premises of secular naturalism that once justified the exclusion of religious and theological perspectives are no longer adequate. p. 5 Because religion continues to play a vital role in our culture, “to [...]
As always Richard Feynman continues to dazzle me and challenge my thinking on physics. As I prepare lectures for a quantum mechanics course, these words from Feynman remain challenging to me. Feynman is always wrestling with the implications of physics and epistemology. Of course, physics is natural philosophy; those practicing physics at the highest level [...]
Introduction Presented at New Life Presbyterian Church, Escondido, CA in February 2012 “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent [...]
Once upon a time in December I was privileged to attend the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting in San Francisco. As was the case with previous visits, the weather was lovely and mild. It is quite a change from the foot of snow in Edmonton where the cycle of seasons has rather sharp edges. Change [...]
[This essay was first published in the October and December 1978 issues of Harper's Magazine.] In the Fall of 1977, when dissenting Episcopalians met in St. Louis, Missouri, to form a continuing Anglican Church in North America, a long-developing breach within the national church was made formal. Since then, four new dioceses have been established, [...]
Reimagining Christianity Historian Lynn White in the 1960s made the case that the traditional Christian worldview was responsible for the mistaken view of man’s relation to nature. His well-received article in Science magazine, entitled “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis,” arguably started the modern mainstream Christian stampede to environmentalism. Wrote White, “Since the roots [...]
Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture, by Gene Edward Veith, Crossway Books: Wheaton, Il., 1994 p. 19. Today as we enter the twenty-first century, a new worldview is emerging. The “modern,” strange as it is to say, has become old-fashioned. The twentieth century, for all of its achievements and catastrophes, is [...]
A lecture by Michael Crichton Caltech Michelin Lecture January 17, 2003 My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to [...]
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