Category Archives: Materialism

Dilbert on free will and determinism

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

Leave it to Dogbert to take things to their natural and logical conclusions. He’s good like that. And leave it to Dilbert to flounder. He’s also good like that. Link here.

Posted in Determinism, Free will, Humor, Materialism, Reductionism | 4 Comments

False faith claims and faith as a cognitive sickness

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

I happened upon a post on Huffington yesterday that caught my eye. “Why faith claims should be ‘corrected’: A Professor’s Argument” by Paul Pardi.  It’s a post about Peter Boghossian, a philosophy instructor at Portland State who wrote an essay for Inside Higher Ed that … Continue reading →

Posted in Materialism, Philosophy, Philosophy of science, science vs. religion | 7 Comments

Atheist spirituality. Oxymoron or legit?

Posted on June 6, 2011 by

Big Questions Online recently spoke with Elaine Howard Ecklund, the author of Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think, a book that has been getting a lot of attention as of late.  In the book, Ecklund, a sociologist, describes her … Continue reading →

Posted in Atheism, Materialism, Panentheism, Reductionism, science vs. religion | 5 Comments

The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, Religion… Part 2: Nature and God-talk

Posted on January 26, 2011 by

How should humans understand their relation to nature?  Are we or are we not a part of that nature?  How should our understanding of this relationship influence our behavior in the world?  How does God relate to the world?  What … Continue reading →

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The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, Religion… Part 2: Nature

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

The last couple of weeks I have been posting on Phil Hefner’s outstanding, but demanding book, The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, Religion.  In the first post, I asked what sounds like a simple question: how do you define God? This … Continue reading →

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Spirituality and the Environment: the issue is materialism

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

I just saw this post on Spirituality and the Environment on the Patheos Community blog site One Eternal Round. It is excellent and resonates well with a main point that I was trying to make in an article I wrote … Continue reading →

Posted in Environmental Ethics, Human nature, Materialism | 3 Comments

The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, Religion… Part 1: the theory of the “created co-creator”

Posted on January 11, 2011 by

Last week, I began a series on Phil Hefner’s interesting but demanding book, The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, Religion.  In the introductory post , I discussed the aim and scope of the book: who we are as humans and what … Continue reading →

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Game theory by xkcd

Posted on November 14, 2010 by

xkcd on game theory… or my commentary on why complex behavior will ultimately not be reducible to scientific experimentation and prediction… link here: http://xkcd.com/601/

Posted in Humor, Materialism, Reductionism, xkcd | 1 Comment

Being Human After Darwin (RJS, Jesus Creed)

Posted on October 5, 2010 by

RJS has a great and discussion-provoking post today on being human after Darwin, one post in a series on the seemingly wonderful book, “Theology After Darwin”.  Today’s post is her reflections/summary of a chapter in the book that was written … Continue reading →

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Does the Christian faith require an immortal soul?

Posted on August 30, 2010 by

I came across a great quotation this summer when I was reading Joel Green’s book, Body, Soul, and Human Life… “As OT scholar Lawson Stone has rightly predicted, given traditional theological views about the human person – for example, regarding … Continue reading →

Posted in Evolution, Human nature, Image of God, Materialism, soul | 6 Comments