23Dec 2025 by Post

No. 10 Story for 2025: Wikipedia Co-Founder on Arguments for God

"God of the gaps", Albert Einstein, argument from ignorance, benevolence, Big Bang, Christianity, Complexity, constants, David Hume, designer, faith, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, logos, matter, natural laws, philosophers, Stephen Meyer, universe, william lane craig
I was impressed by a lecture by philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, who presented versions of the cosmological argument and the fine-tuning argument. Source
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01Jan 2025 by Post

What is Logos? A look at John 1:1-3

Apologetics, Christianity, christology, FreeThinkingMinistries.com, Jesus, John 1:1-13, logos, theology, Theology and Christian Apologetics, Thomas Moller
Introduction One of my favorite passages in the gospels is the prologue of John (1:1-18). I particularly find the first three verses, John 1:1-3, and the use of the “Word”, or Logos in Greek, interesting. In those three verses, a type of creation narrative arises, revolving around Logos, in which Logos is described as being divine, eternal, and the creator. Later in the prologue, in John 1:17, Logos is revealed to be Jesus Christ, thus applying the description of Logos as divine, eternal, and the creator to Jesus Christ. John 1:1-3 states, “In the beginning was the Word [Logos], and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made…
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23Sep 2023 by Post

Science, Scripture, and the Image of God

A. R. Hall, Bible, Christianity, Christopher Kaiser, Creation and the History of Science, creator, Culture & Ethics, Faith & Science, history, How the West Won, human mind, humans, image of God, Intelligent Design, intelligent designer, intelligible order, lawgiver, logos, Museum of the Bible, natural world, Rodney Stark, The Scientific Revolution 1500-1800
"The proposition that the universe had an Intelligent Designer is the most fundamental of all scientific theories." Source
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06Mar 2022 by Post

Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking

ancient Greeks, Argument from Pique, Aristotelian tradition, atomists, automatism, Baruch Spinoza, bio-logic, Charles Darwin, Christian de Duve, Christianity, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Darwin’s Unfinished Business, Erasmus Darwin, Evolution, Faith & Science, freethinking, Life Sciences, logos, magical thinking, moral sensibility, nous, philosophers, Simon Powell, supernatural, Thomas Malthus
Charles Darwin himself exemplified the Argument from Pique, alluded to in past entries in this series, to a tee. Source
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21Apr 2021 by Post

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig: An Intelligent Design Pioneer

angiosperms, Cambrian Explosion, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, convergence, creator, Darwinists, Diether Sperlich, Free University, genetics, Gestalt, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Karl von Goebel, Köln, Life Sciences, logos, Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, Marcos Eberlin, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Mexico, Michael Behe, mousetrap, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Theo Eckhardt, United States, University of Bonn, Utricularia, Wilhelm Troll, Wistar Symposium, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, zoology
Darwinism sounds superficially plausible until one looks at real plants and animals with their irreducibly complex details. Source
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