Reading Time: 2 minutes Here’s another guest piece from Dana Horton. Thanks again to him! More on the soul, wrapping around the axle (4 minute read) We’ve heard stories about those Medieval theological debates on the number of angels on the head of a pin. But they don’t surpass some of the discussions in New Thought forums. Let’s look […]
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A Short Primer on the Soul
Reading Time: 3 minutes Here is another guest post from Dana Horton. Thanks! A Short Primer on the Soul (3 minute read) Here’s a topic for your next virtual cocktail hour: Ask everyone on your Zoom call for their definition of the soul. (Yeah, I probably won’t do that either.) It seems like the answer should be forthcoming, because […]
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Evolution, the Soul and Divisibility
Reading Time: 3 minutes Evolution depends on the notion of divisibility. What this means is that any organism is made up of organelles and parts that are themselves divisible into other parts. The human eye didn’t evolve from nothing into human eye form in one step, it was a case of a part built upon a part built upon […]
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Arguments Against (Christian) Heaven
Reading Time: 5 minutes I have written a number of posts recently on the issues concerning creating heaven from scratch and will now try to sum up my many thoughts as succinctly as possible here. The issue is that the idea of heaven is so ingrained in popular culture that it seems so plausible, and more powerfully, attractive. But […]
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Interactionism, Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia
Reading Time: 5 minutes René Descartes was famous for his belief in substance dualism – that the mind and the body are two separate substances and, in his view, they interacted with each other in the pineal gland. Forgetting the nonsense of the pineal gland being where it all happens, the general notion of substance dualism is widely held by […]
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What Is a Soul and What Does It Do?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Soul this and soul that. The idea of a soul permeates popular culture, from soul music, to feeling things in your soul, to having soul, to this and, indeed, that. Theologically, souls are a really important part of many theists’ theological frameworks. But what is a soul? And what do they do? The answers to these questions are […]
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The Creator On Trial – Part 5
Reading Time: 5 minutes Chapter 10 begins with Rene Descartes’ famous quote, “cogito ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am.) The chapter ends with a quote by philosopher Stuart C. Hackett: “With modest apology to Descartes: Cogito, ergo Deus est! I think, therefore God is.”1 Both the author and Hackett should read Descartes’ entire quote. There are two prefacing […]
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Oh dear. William Lane Craig and his bizarre triality…
Reading Time: 3 minutes William Lane Craig, in a recent video, has declared, as a get out of jail free card for free will and neuroscience, a soul-brainstate-consciousness model for decision making.
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Carroll/Novella Debate: Naturalism is hard, therefore supernaturalism!
Reading Time: 2 minutes This great quote came from Reddit where a commenter was reacting to my piece on the Carroll/Novella vs Alexander/Moody debate. It’s spot on:
It’s always a false dichotomy with these guys. Either the materialist explanation of consciousness has to describe absolutely everything in its entirety down to the atom, or else magic is true! “
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Carroll & Novella vs Alexander & Moody. Some terrible, terrible arguments
Reading Time: 2 minutes I really enjoyed watching the debate that is the talk of the town just now. Eben Alecxander, author of bestseller Proof of Heaven with team mate Ray Moody were arguing that death is not final, that there is an afterlife.