Last week it was widely reported that Stephen Hawking, arguably the world’s pre-eminent physicist, made the claim that there is no such thing as heaven and that it’s just a fairy-tale. As he put it, I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or [...]
(Apologies to Thomas Howard, who wrote the book Christ the Tiger. I love that book but am more than likely going beyond what he said under that title… but maybe I’ll ask him to make sure.) I’ve just finished watching a video (linked to at “Irtiqa: A Science & Religion Blog“) of Richard Feynman discussing [...]
There is an excellent post at Panda’s Thumb by Jack Scanlan, entitled “Does intelligent design have a dualistic assumption, not a theistic one?“. I think Jack has made a very astute observation. I suppose I think this because I agree with what he is saying… that the so called “Intelligent Design” argument is actually based [...]
Whether or not you eat soul food or whether or not you listen to soul music, you probably find it quite offensive or disturbing to hear someone suggest to you that you don’t really have a soul. The first response among most people, whether they are religious or not, is one of amazement that someone [...]
I. Introduction This paper will explore the realism of John Duns Scotus as it relates to the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce. Peirce credited his particular brand of realism to Scotus, and it is the opinion of many Peirce scholars that understanding the realism of Peirce goes quite a long way in unlocking the philosophy [...]
