Over these two weeks, our hope is to overcome Sleigh Track Logic, sorting through all of the things that make sense and determine what makes the most sense.
I saw a video once where some guy on the street asked people A) if they believed in Heaven, and B) to describe what it's like. It was really funny to hear each person's unique answers to these questions, and wonder where they developed this imagery that they verbalized.
Then the guy asked each person if they believed they'd go to heaven when they died, and why. These explanations were even more bizarre. Each person tended to have unique rules for entry, and coincidentally, most seemed to make their own cut. The typical rationale consisted of some sort of ethical comparison between themselves and other people. As if somehow, the actions of others would slide the grading scale of heaven in their favor.
So, my question is A) Do you believe you're going to heaven? and B) Do you have any compelling reason to believe it? January 6, 2009
What Are We Doing Here? Part Two
Over these two weeks, our hope is to overcome Sleigh Track Logic, sorting through all of the things that make sense and determine what makes the most sense.
I saw a video once where some guy on the street asked people A) if they believed in Heaven, and B) to describe what it's like. It was really funny to hear each person's unique answers to these questions, and wonder where they developed this imagery that they verbalized.
Then the guy asked each person if they believed they'd go to heaven when they died, and why. These explanations were even more bizarre. Each person tended to have unique rules for entry, and coincidentally, most seemed to make their own cut. The typical rationale consisted of some sort of ethical comparison between themselves and other people. As if somehow, the actions of others would slide the grading scale of heaven in their favor.
So, my question is A) Do you believe you're going to heaven? and B) Do you have any compelling reason to believe it? January 5, 2009
What Are We Doing Here? Part One
Over these two weeks, our hope is to overcome Sleigh Track Logic, sorting through all of the things that make sense and determine what makes the most sense.
Richard Dawkins, one of the most prominent voices in the atheist movement has written a very popular book called "The God Delusion", in which Dawkins aims to prove how the world we see today could be created through naturalistic means.
These naturalistic explanations are very compelling, fleshing out Darwin's theory based on the newest science available to us.
But, this only takes us to a point. The point in which everything came out of nothing.
In a recent interview of Dawkins, the journalist didn't try to make the mistake of picking apart Dawkins' science from a completely uninformed perspective, but instead asked where this first "life" came from that naturally replicated and evolved over time into the world we see today? Dawkins could not answer, because it is not something that science can tell us, at least not yet.
The origin of species does not explain the origin of life itself.