Could there really be any such thing as horrifying wickedness [if there were no God and we just evolved]? I don’t see how. There can be such a thing only if there is a way that rational creatures are supposed to live, obliged to live….A [secular] way of looking at the world has no place [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Evolution’
A Powerful Argument for the Reality of God
Posted in Plantinga, Alvin, tagged Evolution, Secular, Wickedness on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Evolution Does Not Provide Faculties that Help Us With an Accurate and True Picture of the World
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Atheist, Evolution, Thomas Nagel on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thomas Nagel, the prominent philosopher and atheist, agrees in the last chapter of his book, The Last Word. He writes that to be sure my mind is telling me what is really, truly out there in the world, I must “follow the rules of logic because they are correct – not merely because I am [...]
Hey Mr. Evolutionist, How Can You Be Sure?
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Belief in God, Evolution, Evolutionary Theorists on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Despite fierce debates within the field, evolutionary theorists all agree that our capacity to believe in God is hardwired into the physiology because it was directly or indirectly associated with trials that helped our ancestors adapt to their environment. That’s why arguments for God appeal to so many of us. That’s all there is to [...]
Evolutionary Sop
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Evolution on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And yet it is a remarkable thing that such philosophies of Progress or Creative Evolution themselves bear witness to the truth that our real goal is elsewhere. When they want to convince you that earth is your home, notice how they set about it. They begin by trying to persuade you that earth can [...]
Can Evolution Account for Moral Feelings?
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Evolution, Moral Feelings, Moral Standards on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Evolution, therefore, cannot account for the origin of our moral feelings, let alone for the fact that we all believe there are external moral standards by which moral feelings are evaluated.
- Tim Keller, Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, copyright 2008, page 148
When Someone “Can’t See” Self-Evident Evidence
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Error, Evolution, Reason, Self-Evident Truth on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every teacher knows that people are constantly protesting that they “can’t see” some self -evident inference, but the supposed inability is usually a refusal to see, resulting either from some passion which wants not to see the truth in question or else from sloth which does not want to think at all. But when the [...]
When Evolution Becomes a Philosophy and not Science
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged All-Encompassing Theory, Catholic Church, Christian Belief, Complex Life-Forms, Evolution, Evolutionary Science, Philosophical Naturalism, Worldview on May 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Evolutionary science assumes that more complex life-forms evolved from less complex forms through a process of natural selection. Many Christians believe that God brought about life this way. For example, the Catholic church, the largest church in the world, has made official pronouncements supporting evolution as being compatible with Christian belief. However, Christians may believe [...]
I Reject Evolution as All-Encompassing
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Evolution on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Representatives of these different views often imply that their approach is the One True Christian Position on Evolution. Indeed, I’m sure that many reading this will be irritated that I don’t take time here to adjudicate between the competing views. For the record, I think God guided some process of natural solection and yet I [...]
