Posts Tagged by reductionism
The Atheists and the Thought that Ends All Thought
| September 13, 2011 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, atheism, Blog, evolution, General, scientism, Secular Humanism |
In a recent post, I talked about Richard Dawkins’ discussion in his Delusion about why children gravitate towards fantasy and myth, etc, and alluded to GK Chesterton’s arguments about the ‘thought that ends all thought.’ This sentiment emerges in Chesterton’s book Orthodoxy in a chapter appropriately called The Suicide of Thought. The previous post was…
How the Placebo Effect Proves there is a God
| November 13, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, atheism, Blog, evolution, intelligent design, morality, philosophy, scientism, theology |
We are all aware of the placebo effect. This is often described as being the result of ‘sham’ or ‘fake’ treatments or pills with the fact being that the body would have ‘healed itself on its own’ or has its effect because the illness was ‘only in their mind.’
All of these attitudes represent a materialistic outlook, if not outright reductionism. This hard core atheistic outlook has been at the bottom of scientific development in all fields since the early 1900s, and this has certainly spilled over into medicine. This has sometimes been to the detriment, and even the embarrassment, of scientific progress as described in a book that is still one of my favorites, Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz’s The Mind and the Brain. The book charts the history of brain science up to the point where it was finally admitted that thought itself appeared to be able to shape the matter of the brain.
Creationists Lurking Around Every Corner
| February 16, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under atheism, Blog, Christianity and Culture, evolution, General, theism |
Mr. Morris is a Christian, but he is also an evolutionist. Like another famous Christian and evolutionist, Francis Collins, Mr. Morris is fiercely set against Intelligent Design. And why? There is nothing inherent to Intelligent Design to overthrow evolution (Many if not most IDers embrace evolution, just not unguided evolution). And everyone, with the exception of a few hard boiled atheists like Dawkins, concede that evolution doesn’t preclude the existence of God. So what’s your problem with Intelligent Design?
My gut says that the problem is that the Intelligent Designers have been labeled- and dismissed- as closet creationists and as there is no insult worse than to be called a creationist, one must run far away from anything that smacks of the term if one wants to be considered credible, both inside and outside of the scientific community.
Is Science the Only Way to Know All Things Important?
| April 21, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
In a recent blog entry I tried to get to the ‘root’ of the contention between those who think Intelligent Design is not science and those who think it is. In that entry I made three basic claims: Many people believe science is the only way to know anything that is important. By science they…
Review: Shaun of the Dead
| November 19, 2006 | Posted by Anthony under atheism, Blog, Christianity and Culture, evolution, General, Jesus, manhood, morality, movie reviews, philosophy, Secular Humanism |
In the end, Shaun gets the girl, but it isn’t Shaun the wuss panzy. It’s Shaun that has gone through the trial by ordeal- and for that matter, the girl has discovered that being a girl does not mean being ‘soft’ either. I am convinced that Christianity contains the best explanation for all of this and why even though I abhor horror movies and blood and guts, I feel compelled to suggest this movie.
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