Posted on May 13, 2012 by Michael
It amazes me when I read the argument that science and religion do not conflict simply because some major scientist from the Enlightenment – usually Newton – embraced them both. Come on. Is it really surprising that there was overlap between an old system and a burgeoning one?
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Posted on October 3, 2011 by Michael
The effectiveness of the argument from complexity and arguments from ignorance baffles me. That life is difficult to understand or that we don’t know how it began (or how the Universe came to be) are not valid reasons for concluding in a designer. They just aren’t.
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