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Do God and Spirits Influence People and Things in the Physical Universe?
Tagged with: angels, evil spirits, freedom, fundamentalism, Gibeon, God, miracles, science, spirits, the Bible, the Exodus
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Thoughts on Seeing the Eclipse
Where were you for the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017? Annette and I, plus several visiting family members, were camping at Glendo State Park, 100 miles north of where we live in Cheyenne. Our campground was right on…
Tagged with: eclipse, eclipse of the sun, Glendo State Park, God, science, solar eclipse, spirituality, total solar eclipse of August 21 2017, totality, Wyoming
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Is Your Spirit Rounded or Angular?
As I was browsing headlines the other day, this title at LiveScience.com caught my attention: “A Politician’s Name & Face: Why a Good Match May Win Votes” How does someone’s name match their face, I wondered? As it turns out,…
Tagged with: angels, Emanuel Swedenborg, faces, heaven, language, names, science, spirituality, Swedenborg, the spiritual world, vowels
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Afterlife
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Afterlife
God: Puppetmaster or Manager of the Universe?
Back when Isaac Newton reigned supreme in the world of physics, it was popular among scientists and philosophers to think of the universe as a vast machine grinding along on an inevitable path that could be fully predicted into the…
Tagged with: Albert Einstein, Creation, Emanuel Swedenborg, Erwin Schrödinger, God, Isaac Newton, Max Planck, natural disasters, Niels Bohr, physics, Werner Heisenberg
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Are Deaths from Natural Disasters an Unavoidable Side-Effect of God’s Creation?
As amazing and beautiful as this physical universe is, it is also filled with almost unimaginable cataclysmic violence—which commonly brings suffering, pain, and death to the living residents of our earth—plant, animal, and human. Why did God create the universe…
Tagged with: Creation, death, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, God, heaven, natural disasters, pain, spirituality, suffering, Swedenborg
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Science Philosophy and History
God Is Unconvincing To Smart Folks? – Part 5
(This is Part 5 and the conclusion of my response to the article, “God Is Unconvincing To Smart Folks,” by J. H. McKenna. For Part 1, click here. For Part 4, click here.) Points 19–21 of Dr. McKenna’s article make…
Tagged with: agnosticism, agnostics, atheism, atheists, evolution, God, religion, science, science fiction, spiritual evolution, technology
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
God Is Unconvincing To Smart Folks? – Part 4
(This is Part 4 of my response to the article, “God Is Unconvincing To Smart Folks,” by J. H. McKenna. For Part 1, click here. For Part 3, click here.) Points 12–18 of Dr. McKenna’s article deal with big issues of God’s…
Tagged with: atheism, Dr. J. H. McKenna, God, humor, morality, nature, religion, science, the universe, theism
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
God Is Unconvincing To Smart Folks? – Part 3
(This is Part 3 of my response to the article, “God Is Unconvincing To Smart Folks,” by J. H. McKenna. For Part 1, click here. For Part 2, click here.) Points 6–11 of Dr. McKenna’s article deal with human experience of and…
Tagged with: atheism, Dr. J. H. McKenna, God, miracles, mystics, prayer, religion, skepticism, the Bible
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History, The Bible Re-Viewed
God Is Unconvincing To Smart Folks? – Part 2
(This is Part 2 of my response to the article, “God Is Unconvincing To Smart Folks,” by J. H. McKenna. For Part 1, click here.) Points 3, 4, and 5 of Dr. McKenna’s article deal with three key characteristics of God:…
Tagged with: atheism, Dr. J. H. McKenna, God, omnipotence, omniscience, pain, skepticism, suffering, theodicy, violence
Posted in All About God, Pain and Suffering, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Pain and Suffering, Science Philosophy and History
God Is Unconvincing To Smart Folks? – Part 1
The title of this article, minus the question mark, is the title of an article posted recently (December 1, 2016) on the Huffington Post Blog. Its author is J. H. McKenna, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer on the History of Religious Ideas…
Tagged with: atheism, biology, Dr. J. H. McKenna, female God, God, intelligence and religiosity, male God, religion, skepticism, the Divine Feminine, theism, truth
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
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