God came from … ?
Returning to the question, ‘What caused God?’
As I said previously, the question ‘What caused God?’ is at its core, incoherent. I hear this question most often when discussing the origin of the universe or the Big Bang ‚or something of the sort. The theist usually suggests something along the lines of, ‘the universe cannot be eternal because of the laws of entropy and thermodynamics. If you understood the Big Bang theory you’d realize it suggests a finite universe’. The a-theist, in response, simply retorts, ‘What / who caused God?’ Then proceeds to behave as if it’s an unanswerable question (having not dealt with what seem to me to be valid objections to an eternal universe). Is this a valid question though? As I’ve previously said, no, it is not, it is what’s known as a category error, “ascribing a property to some thing which could not have that … (Read more)
New books, at least for me.
I was originally planning to revise a forum post I had made a while ago regarding the historicity of the resurrection and use that as my entry for today. However, after finding the forum post and reading it over, I’ve decided it will need to be entirely re-written — it’s awful. Hopefully I don’t think the same of what I’ve written here in a few years time. In any case, since I need to re-write what is essentially a twelve page essay, what follows now will be something a lot less formal.
After a fair bit of Red Alert 3, Fallout 3 and N.T Wright’s The Resurrection of the Son of God, I decided I needed something new, turns out I decided on some new books, which are as follows:
1. How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture — Francis Schaeffer… (Read more)
Fetus: human being, if not, what?
We’ve all heard it said before:
I don’t feel that a fetus is alive until it can survive outside of the mother. I’m not going to change my mind about that…
I find this an untenable position, though at least he used the word fetus rather than baby, excusing the emotional language, more on this in just a little bit.
This entry isn’t intended as any sort of exhaustive discussion of abortion, it isn’t even necessarily intended as a religious examination of abortion, though keeping in mind a Christian world view would be of great benefit (as that is where I am ‘coming’ from, even if I try to remove as many of my presuppositions as possible). These are my initial thoughts which will more likely than not be expanded elsewhere.
In discussing abortion it seems clear to me that we need to define a few terms, terms that would be … (Read more)
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