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Author Archives: Thomas Alderman
Social Media, Woke Culture, and the 2020 Election
Do you find yourself wondering what just happened? The last four years are bewildering without some coherent theoretical framework by which to make sense of them. I want to share with you an article which for me, at least, significantly … Continue reading
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Review: Ben Stein documentary, “Expelled”
[The following essay was written in fulfillment of an assignment for a class I took at Reasons Institute in the spring of 2020.] Critics of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution are systematically denied a fair opportunity to present their views … Continue reading
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Letter to Mary
For Christmas 2019 my daughter-in-law gave me Andrew Roberts’ biography of Winston Churchill. This is the letter I wrote to thank her. March 7, 2020 Dear Mary, I just finished Andrew Roberts’ Churchill and I want to say again, thanks! … Continue reading
Posted in Spirituality, The Existence of God
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The Infinite Complexity of Cells/Is Following Jesus a “Politic”?
Two essential reads from this morning’s mail: Excerpt — The Infinite Complexity of Cells Is Following Jesus a “Politic?”
And this on “White Fragility”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/
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User-friendly Reorganization!
You may have noticed (or if you haven’t, please do) that the website has been reorganized by subject area. Formerly it was merely chronological, which was pretty useless in finding anything unless you already knew when it was published. Now, … Continue reading
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Existential Reasons for Believing in God
Everyone should check out Paul Copan’s web site, Worldview Bulletin Newsletter (https://worldviewbulletin.substack.com/), and in particular, in the July 26 edition, Clifford Williams’ “Existential Reasons for Believing in God.” I am provoked to think: If God exists; if He created us; … Continue reading
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Fine-Tuning for High-Tech Civilization
Astronomer Hugh Ross of Reasons to Believe (reasons.org), of whom much is heard in these pages, has long emphasized that all of natural history prior to mankind was fine-tuned to prepare the cosmos not for mankind simply, but for mankind … Continue reading
Toward an Epistemology of Love
N. T. Wright, Loving to Know: The 2019 Erasmus Lecture (First Things Magazine, February 2020, pp. 25-34.) To transcend the divided field of knowledge – the antitheses between fact and value, objective and subjective, reason and faith, science and … Continue reading
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