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Ancient and Modern Resurrection

Jesus rose from the dead. Therefore Christianity is true. People don’t rise from the dead. When you die you stay dead. It’s one of the laws of nature. God can break the laws of nature. Oh no he can’t. Can. … Continue reading

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The brain and its priorities

This post is a plug for the talk by Iain McGilchrist which went live on Friday. Entitled ‘The Brain and a Sense of the Sacred’, it’s still available here. McGilchrist is best known for his book The Master and His … Continue reading

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God and the laws of nature

What if the boot is on the other foot? We’ve had a couple of centuries of atheists arguing that science undermines belief in God. But what if it undermines belief in atheism? This post is an edited version of a … Continue reading

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Couldn’t God have created a world without the coronavirus?

On the limits of what we can expect to know Continue reading

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Natural disasters and religious belief

Are religious responses more than psychological comfort? Continue reading

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What does progress do?

This is the second of my series of four talks on progress. The first describes its origins. Human life is unsatisfactory but our lives have been designed, by some kind of god, with potential for improvement. Sometimes we go forward, … Continue reading

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Suspect science and godless knowledge

Richard Grant’s article Why scientists are losing the fight to communicate science to the public makes two good points about why people are often suspicious of scientists. I shall add a third, which to me is the important one. Grant … Continue reading

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