Theistic expansive naturalism: which God?

Therapeutic Community 1 A Theistic Approach to Therapeutic Community: Non-Naturalism and the Alldredge Academy

Does Evolutionary Science Rule Out the Theistic God? The Johnson-Pennock Debate

Oppy and Modal Theistic Proofs

I argue that Graham Oppy’s attempt to redefend his charge that all modal theistic arguments “must be question-begging” is unsuccessful. Oppy’s attempt to show that theism and modal concretism are compatible is not only tangential for his purposes, it is marred by a misunderstanding of theism, and vulnerable to a counterexample that actually demonstrates incompatibility. Moreover, the notion of ...

Some Problems for Theistic Evolution

Most readers of Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith are acquainted with the terms “young-earth creation,” “old-earth creation,” and “theistic evolution.”1 These reflect the fact that, among Christians in general and within the American Scientific Affiliation in particular, there is considerable disagreement on how to relate the biblical and scientific data on origins. Some feel that the...

Cultural Naturalism

Culture can be viewed as the means by which a society can live in its surroundings by acquiring and consuming free energy. This naturalistic notion assumes that everything can be valued in terms of energy, hence also social changes can be described as natural processes that are influenced by the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. This universal law, when formulated as an equation of motion, reveals tha...