and pausing there she looked out to meet the stroke of the Lighthouse, the long steady stroke, the last of the three, which was her stroke, for watching them in this mood always at this hour one could not help attaching oneself to one thin especially of the things one saw; and this thing, the
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Recently, I have been reflecting on the concept of magic – on the face of it, a profoundly un-Christian and un-philosophical subject, but one which I have found to be very instructive.
“But that which God foreknows, it needs must be, So says the best opinion of the clerks. Witness some cleric perfect for his works, That in the schools there’s a great altercation In this regard, and much high disputation… Whether the fact of God’s great foreknowing Makes it right needful that I do a thing
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Via exapologist, a paper by philosopher Erik J. Wielenberg which is essentially a response to various theistic criticisms of atheistic moral realism (or, more precisely, “non-natural non-theistic moral realism.”) His view is that there are ethical brute facts, which are metaphysically necessary and require no grounding or justification. I read the paper quickly, mostly because
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What do we mean when we say that God is omnipotent? Can an omnipotent being exist? Some time ago, an atheist friend (who subsequently became a Christian) presented me with a paradox that purportedly disproved God’s existence: “Could God create a stone so heavy that He could not lift it?” If God could, it seems
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I recently read a popular science book called Life on a Young Planet by Harvard’s own Andy Knoll. The majority of the book was a decently interesting synopsis of current thought on paleobiology. But because every popular science book must have sappy epilogue (or a sappy prologue, or both), Knoll took a few pages at
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Lord, may the fruit of our minds be to the praise of Your glory. When I think, I think in words and pictures. The words and the pictures must be connected, because sometimes the pictures have something to do with the words or the words have something to do with the pictures. But I’m not
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