In the trial of Jesus, ancient texts have recorded this exchange: Pilate replied, “You are a king then?” “You say that I am a king, and you are right,” Jesus said. “I was born for that purpose. And I came to bring truth to the world. All who love the truth recognize that what I…
Category: Science & Materialism
Science, scientism, and materialism in modern society
Wisdom From an Atheist
David Foster Wallace, a writer, professor and committed atheist, died on Sept 12, 2008. He was perhaps best known for his book about John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign. Wallace was a thoroughgoing postmodernist — and thereby solidly possessed of the notion that there is no capital-T Truth. The Wall Street Journal published an essay upon…
Reason & Revelation
In recent essays we’ve been mud-wrestling about scientific materialism vs. faith — especially with that peculiar disdain and condescension secular scientists often exude toward those foolish enough to believe in a divine Creator. Regarding my response to the skeptical scientist, I received another thought from a reader regarding reason and Christianity: … I think you…
The Endless Mandala
I was recently drawn to an astronomy site, proposing a new interpretation of a theory called Loop Quantum Gravity, which the author, an astronomer and skeptic. believes explains the behavior of the universe at its figurative Ground Zero: the instant of the Big Bang, where T=0. Now our astronomer seems to be quite a nice…