Category Archives: Philosophy

You Can’t ‘Prove’ God

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

An interesting quote from Dean L. Overman’s Evidence for the Existence of God (Rowman and Littlefield: 2009): There are real limits to any formal reasoning system attempting something in the nature of a mathematical proof.  Science and faith share a … Continue reading →

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Richard Bell on Mind and Matter

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

Theologian and scientist Professor Richard Bell argues that quantum theory supports the idea that the universe is a representation upheld by and in the consciousness of its inhabitants. This, of course, is an area of research that has long fascinated … Continue reading →

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Kant and Arguments for God

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

Kant argued that there were only three kinds of arguments that could be made regarding the existence of some sort of God.  He called these the cosmological, ontological, and physico-theological arguments. Under the cosmological argument type falls all arguments from … Continue reading →

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Kant, Antinomies and General Revelation

Posted on November 26, 2011 by

The great Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seemed to have grasped a fundamental difficulty with the idea of “general revelation,” the same one St. Paul alludes to in Romans 1:19-22: [19] For what can be known about God is plain to … Continue reading →

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