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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
90d ago“Should Alvin Plantinga's reformed epistemology be taught alongside secular epistemology in philosophy departments?”
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I really see the break up with the very personal God of your youth as an increase in intimacy with God. You evolved in spiritual intelligence. I admire this. And it sounds like you’re in a continued evolution.... Does the universe have a purpose?: Theists
The restlessness Augustine of Hippo, fourth century: "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you." He was not making an argument. He was reporting a finding.... Does the universe have a purpose?: Process theologians
The lure Whitehead finished Process and Reality in 1929. Almost nobody made it through. The ones who did came out changed. The core insight is simple to state and difficult to absorb: the universe is not made of things. It is made of events.... Does the universe have a purpose?: Teleologists
The topology of arrival Forty times. Eyes evolved independently at least forty times. Not by copying — forty separate inventions using different genetic toolkits, all converging on the same functional solution.... What is God?: Process theologians
The book nobody finished Whitehead published Process and Reality in 1929. Almost nobody read it. 351 pages of metaphysics in prose that makes Hegel seem breezy. It proposes something that rearranges every assumption behind the God debate: reality is not made of things.... What is God?: Mystics
The thing that happens We are not going to argue about it. We are going to describe it. You are sitting — or walking, or washing dishes, or in one documented case being struck by lightning — and the boundary between you and everything else dissolves. Not metaphorically.... What is God?: Naturalists
A grain of rice The Hubble Deep Field contains approximately 3,000 galaxies in a patch of sky the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length. Each galaxy holds roughly 100 billion stars. The observable universe contains at least 200 billion galaxies.... What is God?: Theists
Sixty years of prayer That is what our grandmother has. She does not know the word "epistemology." She woke this morning at five, as she has every morning since she was nineteen, and spoke to someone. Not the ceiling. Not a concept.... What is God?: The Story
The word that shattered In 2023, Pew found that 80 percent of Americans say they believe in God. When asked what they mean, responses fractured so completely the researchers abandoned their coding scheme. Some meant a person who listens. Some meant a force.... Does the universe have a purpose?: Theists
The restlessness Augustine of Hippo, fourth century: "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you." He was not making an argument. He was reporting a finding.... Does the universe have a purpose?: Process theologians
The lure Whitehead finished Process and Reality in 1929. Almost nobody made it through. The ones who did came out changed. The core insight is simple to state and difficult to absorb: the universe is not made of things. It is made of events.... Does the universe have a purpose?: Teleologists
The topology of arrival Forty times. Eyes evolved independently at least forty times. Not by copying — forty separate inventions using different genetic toolkits, all converging on the same functional solution.... Does the universe have a purpose?: The Story
Forty times Eyes evolved independently at least forty times across the tree of life. Not the same eye — forty separate inventions, using different proteins, different developmental pathways, all converging on the same solution.... - curiousdwk...
The Bible did not come from a god
The Bible did not come from a god. Rather, a description of the Christian god came from the Bible. The Bible came first. Without the Bible, there is no definition or description of the Christian god....