flotsam & jetsam (4.24.08)
blogdom April 24th, 2008People are sheeple. Much to my consternation the masses fall for quackery.
Naselli’s list of T4G’s 2008 MP3s. Earlier today I was with a group of pastors that attended T4G and all spoke highly of the conference. There was apparently a balanced mix of scholarship, practical teaching, good fellowship, and God-centered worship.
Earth first! People later? Encountering the environmental movement in mainstream Christianity.
A couple other reviews of “Expelled” here (Groothius) and here (Patton).
So much for free will…I decided to blog this topic about ten seconds after my brain had already made up my mind for me…I guess.
On the historicity of Adam…no matter if you are a young earth creationist, an ID guru, or a theistic evolutionist…I don’t see how we dodge this bullet…it doesn’t just wound us–it slays us and condemns us, and ultimately, points us toward the second Adam.
April 29th, 2008 at 3:52 am
Knowing full well you didn’t intend to claim Derbyshire’s reference was QED….
As far as I can tell, the neuroscience approach to cognitive science only informs cognitive theory on the subject of free will (itself, as Locke demonstrated ably, a misnomer) to the tune of what cognitive theory already understood: that all conscious experience is of the past. This doesn’t mean that agency is preceded by biological determination, but that the experience of having “reached a decision” is preceded by the fact of “coming to a decision.” It does belie certain intuitions, but careful cognitive theorists have usually been beyond this (not so much scientists, who are therefore now discovering this) for some time. Certainly none of these findings would have disturbed Locke, Berkely, Liebniz, Hume, or Kant.
Cheers,
PGE