Chimp may share 98 per cent of its DNA with ourselves but it is not 98 per cent human: it is not human at all – it is a chimp. And does the fact that we have genes in common with a mouse, or a banana...
The existence of a limit to science is, however, made clear by its inability to answer childlike elementary questions having to do with first and last things – questions such as: How did everything be...
The example of the jet engine can help us to clear up another confusion. Science, according to many scientists, concentrates essentially on material causation. It asks the how questions: how does the...
Society tolerates the practice of the Christian faith in private devotions and in church services, but it increasingly deprecates public witness.
Perhaps there is a subtle danger today that, in their desire to eliminate the concept of a Creator completely, some scientists and philosophers have been led, albeit unwittingly, to re-deify the unive...
Johannes Kepler described his motivation thus: ‘The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order which has been imposed on it by God, and which he rev...
If the text means that the sun came into existence on day 4, Origen was asking a very reasonable question: If the sun is not yet there, how are we to understand the first three days with their ‘evenin...
If life is the result of a purely naturalistic process, what then of morality? Has it, too, evolved? And if so, of what significance are our concepts of right and wrong, justice and truth?
Here we have the basic ingredients that define human beings as moral beings. God has given them the ability to say yes to him by not eating the prohibited tree, and to say no to him by eating it. In t...
Furthermore, if Dawkins’s question is valid, it can be turned back on him. He believes that the universe created him. Therefore, we are justified in asking him: who created your creator?
The fact that we understand some of the mechanisms of the working of the universe or of living systems does not preclude the existence of a designer, any more than the possession of insight into the p...
Some will take issue, however, with the idea that the resurrection body of Christ is physical, by pointing out that the New Testament itself speaks of the resurrection body as a spiritual body.110 The...
God loves an enquiring mind, a fact that has been a great encouragement to me in my study of mathematics and the history and philosophy of science.
The more we get to know about our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator God, who designed the universe for a purpose, gains in credibility as the best explanation of why we are her...
The issue between the atheist and the believer is not whether it makes sense to question ultimate fact, it is rather the question: what fact is ultimate? The atheist’s ultimate fact is the universe; t...
The heart of monotheism is that God, who is outside history, is the guarantor of meaning.
So, is naturalism actually demanded by science? Or is it just conceivable that naturalism is a philosophy that is brought to science, more than something that is entailed by science? Could it even be,...
Hawking’s inadequate view of God could well be linked with his attitude to philosophy in general. He writes: Philosophy is dead.9 But this itself is a philosophical statement. It is manifestly not a s...
Large evolutionary innovations are not well understood. None has ever been observed, and we have no idea whether any may be in progress. There is no good fossil record of any.’23
We are a product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.