Month: November 2018
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Atheist and Darwinian Science and Story Telling, part 3 of 9
Richard Dawkins’ “Faith” and “Luck”: From an interview of Richard Dawkins by Jonathan Miller:1 “Um, there’s got to be a series of advantages all the way in the feather. If you can’t think of one then that’s your problem, not natural selection’s problem. Natural selection, um, well, I suppose that is a sort of matter…
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Roman Catholic Doctrine of Purgatory, part 3—Miscellaneous Roman Catholic Comments
Karl Keating; Director of Catholic Apologetic Organization Catholic Answers: …the doctrine of purgatory is not at odds with other tenets of Christianity. In fact, as he [Samuel Johnson] may have known, there is considerable scriptural warrant for it, even if the doctrine is not explicitly set out in the Bible.1 Can it really be said…
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Atheism – The New (Emergent) Atheists, part 2 of 4
What Is Their Appeal? Their appeal is at least two-pronged: One is their self-professed appeal, and the other is the facts of the matter (which will be considered from a Christian perspective). Their self-professed appeal is stated by Richard Dawkins as “intellectually fulfilled Atheist.”1 Atheism promises enlightenment-in the forms of scientific literacy, rationality, happiness, morality-and…
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Atheist and Darwinian Science and Story Telling, part 2 of 9
Miscellaneous Examples: In the essay Scientific Cenobites I provide many, many quotes such as the following regarding wishful speculations, storytelling, narratives, myths, ethos, and philosophizing in the name of, in the guise of, science. Franklin M. Harold, emeritus professor of biochemistry at Colorado State University, wrote: “We should reject as a matter of principle the…
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Atheism – The New (Emergent) Atheists, part 3 of 4
An Atheist New World Order – A One World Atheist ReligionFollowing on the steps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, who conceived of a civil religion) and Auguste Comte (1798-1857, who conceived of a religion of humanity), the New Atheists tear down Christianity and seek to build their church in the rubble.Daniel Dennett stated: …there could be…
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Atheism – The New (Emergent) Atheists, part 1 of 4
Have you heard the saying, “If it’s true, it’s not new; and if it’s new, it’s not true?” Well, the “New Atheists” fit the bill-they are not new, and they are not representing what is true. Part 1: Who Are The New Atheists? and What Are Their Claims? Part 2: What Is Their Appeal? and…
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Roman Catholic Doctrine of Purgatory, part 2—The Apocrypha
General Comments: The books that are accepted in the Roman Catholic Bible, as opposed to, generally speaking, the Jewish or the Protestant, are: Baruch, Judith, 1st and 2nd Maccabees, Sirach a.k.a. Ecclesiasticus (not to be confused with Ecclesiastes), Tobit a.k.a. Tobias, Wisdom of Solomon, as well as small additions to Daniel and Esther. Roman Catholicism…
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Richard Dawkins – Planting God More Firmly on His Throne
Professor of biology, Richard Dawkins, “Highly intelligent people are mostly atheists.”1 Physicist, and former Chairman of the Department of Materials Science at Stanford, Richard Bube, “There are proportionately as many atheistic truck drivers as there are atheistic scientists.”2 In his book The God Delusion Prof. Richard Dawkins approvingly quotes Irish playwright and poet Sean O’Casey’s…
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Atheist and Darwinian Science and Story Telling, part 1 of 9
In studying atheism, and their attempts to co-opt Darwin’s theory of evolution and science in general, I have encountered twin logical fallacies so often that I have come to coin two terms to describe them: the fallacy of validation by projection and the fallacy of validation by regression. This parsed essay essentially picks up where…
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Roman Catholic Doctrine of Purgatory, part 1—An Introduction
When Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was a renowned theologian, Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (the former Holy Office), which is the most important Vatican curial office, charged with the preservation and promotion of Catholic orthodoxy (he then became Pope Benedict XVI) stated, My view is that if Purgatory did…