I’ve been following some more debates between people who believe in God and those who don’t lately. And I think I’m starting to pick up on something. It’s rare to see one side moving the debate to the other side’s territory. Religious people tend not to engage atheists in scientific debate, and atheists fail to [...]
Ah yes, musings about the nature of God. This is the kind of thing that gets sticky sometimes, so I just want to say right here, I don’t profess to know the true nature or mind of God. Everything I write in this piece is speculation, both my own and others at points where I [...]
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A lot of people seem to think that science and religion are simply incompatible with each other. I think this idea really stems from taking too literal a view of any religious writing, though the Bible is the most commonly cited here in the U.S, and then realizing that science as we understand it says [...]
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I’ve been noticing an alarming trend lately. Namely, the idea propagating that science is a religion. A religion built on assumptions about reality, then logically extended from there until there is a large amount of dogma around this religion called science. There’s only one problem… anyone making this claim is wrong!
Now, I’ll be the first [...]
Religiously speaking, I used to identify myself as a Christian. This was mostly a label, as I don’t really believe the only way to salvation is through Jesus. I tended to identify as Christian more because I believe in a concept of God similar to that of the loving God many Christians follow. Jesus, I [...]