Over time, multiple administrations, Democrat and Republican, presumptively liberal and conservative respectively, have brought our society into a generally unhappy place. Polls show that most Americans feel our current state is not good and that we’re headed in the wrong direction. Most also sense that we’re where we are because of things we did or didn’t do, not because of external forces. Continue reading “Liberal and Conservative – Stuck in the Same Swamp?”
Category: Philosophy
Would God Make This World?
“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.”
Richard Dawkins, scientist, popular science author and evangelical atheist.
The evidence of history and our experience is that the operation of the laws of the natural world generate a randomness that strike our lives with with everything from terrible misfortune to wild serendipity to dulling sameness. Would a good and loving god make such a world? The surprising answer I find is YES, and here is why.
Science vs. Religion
I recently read that in 1981 the National Academy of Science approved the following statement; “Religion and science are separate and mutually exclusive realms of human thought whose presentation in the same context leads to misunderstanding of both scientific theory and religious belief.” Ian Barbour, “Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues,” (1997), quoted in […]
A Paralysis of Moral Relativism
A tweet from Salon.com read,
“Pundits decrying the barbarity of ISIS might wanna take a closer look at American history”
What is a Healthy Society?
I asked myself how can we weigh or measure policies coming from different perspectives? By what yardstick can we gauge their validity?
Stop & Think 