Posted in Religion, tagged god, religiosity, Tony Abaya on March 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Below is an excerpt from the website of Tony Abaya, a well known author here in the Philippines on “Divine Intervention”
http://acabaya.blogspot.com/search/label/Divine%20intervention
And our neighbors overtook us without pleading for divine intervention. South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, as well as Thailand and the large (28%) ethnic Chinese population of Malaysiaare predominantly Buddhist. So are Old Tiger Japan, New Tiger China, and [...]
Posted in Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Religion, Science, tagged convenience, fear, god, theophobia, truth on January 31, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Remember how we discussed how the God vs. Science debate seems to be simply a question of convenience (albeit psychological) rather than a question of truth? Well, recently blogger Star Larvae had an interesting email exchange that highlighted this:
People I encounter who have an interest in speculative cosmology, or whatever we might call our endeavor, [...]
Posted in Psychology, Religion, tagged emotions, faith, feelings, god, Mother Teresa on January 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In a controversial story that broke in Time in 2007, Mother Teresa’s secret letters confess an emptiness that troubled her in her last years:
The letters, many of them preserved against her wishes (she had requested that they be destroyed but was overruled by her church), reveal that for the last nearly half-century of her life [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Religion, tagged beliefnet, god, Neale Donald Walsch, plagiarism on January 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Neale Donald Walsch, a know author of the “Conversations with God” book series has admitted that he unwittingly use another writer’s anecdote as his very own.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neale_Donald_Walsch
Neale Donald Walsch (also known as Neale Marshall-Walsch) (b. September 10, 1943 inMilwaukee) is an American author of the series Conversations with God. The books so far in the series are Conversations With God (books 1-3), Friendship with God, Communion with [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, tagged attitudes, bias, god, Jesse Preston, study on December 19, 2008 | 9 Comments »
It’s an age-old debate, but a recent study may show that psychological preferences for God and science may be diametrically opposed.
This is the topic of a study done by psychology professor Jesse Preston:
Preston and her colleague, Nicholas Epley, of the University of Chicago, wanted to explore how information about science influences a belief in God, [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Philosophy, Religion, tagged Edward Current, god, negative proof on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Edward Current produced a humorous take on the age-old question of God which also illustrates an important logical fallacy: proving a negative.
Although to be fair, there is stll a fine line between impossibility and improbability. A wiki entry puts it very well:
Though a lack of positive evidence can never disprove a [...]
Posted in Religion, tagged above the law, fear, god on October 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is a post i found in a ‘Pinoyexchange’ website.
bold is mine
http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?p=30569050&posted=1#post30569050
God the Father through His one and only Begotten Son Jesus Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit solely and singularly created this Universe for His own good pleasure and will.
As such, God owns and possesses this Universe that we live in. [...]
Posted in Psychology, Religion, tagged atheism, atheist, faith, god, Japanese, secular on October 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Does religion foster bad behavior, or does faith really strengthen society?
http://www.godwouldbeanatheist.com/cols2005/051113.htm
Why can’t we all be Japanese?
Religion fosters bad behavior
By © Martin Foreman
Word Count: 795 words
Publication date: November 13, 2005
Several weeks ago, a ground-breaking study on religious belief and social well-being was [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Religion, Science, tagged agnostic, atheist, bible, deist, Einstein, god, Religion, theist on September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24598856/?GT1=43001
LONDON – Albert Einstein: arch rationalist or scientist with a spiritual core?
A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of [...]
Posted in Critical Thinking, Religion, Science, tagged atheism, delusion, god, Richard Dawkins, truth on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Hour’s George Stroumboulopoulos interviews Richard Dawkins – author of “The God Delusion”.
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