(This series of posts reviews in detail Francis Collins’s book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, originally published in 2006. The page numbers cited are from the large print edition published in 2007. The complete set of these posts will be archived here.) Collins also takes the familiar tack of using …
Monthly Archive: June 2008
Jun 13 2008
The Language of God-5: The nasty problem of miracles
(This series of posts reviews in detail Francis Collins’s book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, originally published in 2006. The page numbers cited are from the large print edition published in 2007. The complete set of these posts will be archived here.) As I said before, sophisticated religious believers like …
Jun 12 2008
The Language of God-4: The contradictions start piling up
(This series of posts reviews in detail Francis Collins’s book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, originally published in 2006. The page numbers cited are from the large print edition published in 2007. The complete set of these posts will be archived here.) Thoughtful religious people have always faced the problem …
Jun 11 2008
The Language of God-3: The God of the Ultimate Gaps again
(This series of posts reviews in detail Francis Collins’s book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, originally published in 2006. The page numbers cited are from the large print edition published in 2007. The complete set of these posts will be archived here.) The subtitle of Francis Collins’s book A Scientist …
Jun 10 2008
The Language of God-2: Theistic evolution aka ‘BioLogos’
(This series of posts reviews in detail Francis Collins’s book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, originally published in 2006. The page numbers cited are from the large print edition published in 2007. The complete set of these posts will be archived here.) As I said in the previous post, Francis …
Jun 09 2008
The Language of God-1: Introducing Francis Collins, distinguished scientist and evangelical Christian
(This series of posts reviews in detail Francis Collins’s book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, originally published in 2006. The page numbers cited are from the large print edition published in 2007. The complete set of these posts will be archived here.) In this book Francis Collins tries to present …
Jun 06 2008
Tuesday night election afterthoughts
The Daily Show provides a wrap up of the events of Tuesday night, comparing the speech of Barack Obama with the non-concession, self-absorbed speech of Clinton and the disaster that was McCain’s presentation (that was supposed to upstage Obama’s night) that was panned even by the Fox News punditocracy. The Daily Show is one of …
Jun 05 2008
Some thoughts on the presidential race
The Democratic Party primary process has finally come to an end with Barack Obama having secured the party nomination by virtue of having acquired the majority of delegates. In many ways it has been a remarkable process. A system that had seemed for so long to belong to just white men found two candidates not …
Jun 04 2008
Am I spiritual?
Having thought and written about atheism and science and religion quite a bit, there are few questions that I encounter about these topics for which I do not have at least a partial answer ready to hand. The one question that used to flummox me until quite recently was when people asked me whether I …
Jun 03 2008
The end of god-23: The false equivalence of science and religion
(For previous posts in this series, see here.) In this final post in this series, I want to address the attempt to bring down science to the level of religion by arguing that science and religion are equivalent because there exist questions that neither can answer. This approach is illustrated by Lord Winston (emeritus professor …
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