I have been working my way through Michael Abril’s Evolutionary Theology which is a great book. I’m “working my way through” only in the sense that I often have a limited free reading time outside of work. In his book, he talks a bit about Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) who was a veryContinue reading “Theology Ends Up Matching the Science”
Tag Archives: Philosophy
Realism at the Basement of Reality?
I’m definitely not a theoretical physicist. I’m also not a philosopher. I do have a doctorate in theology in addition to my medical degree. So, it makes sense for me to comment on something for which I have no real handle on…quantum mechanics. I do understand some of its concepts, and I know enough basicContinue reading “Realism at the Basement of Reality?”
The Light Cone and Process Philosophy / Process Theology
In my opinion, the light cone is one of the best ways to understand aspects of one of the 3 tenets of process philosophy and process theology — prehension. The other two aspects are panentheism and panexperientialism. Simply put, prehension is the moment right before an event occurs. Process philosophy (and thus, process theology) isContinue reading “The Light Cone and Process Philosophy / Process Theology”
Reading Some Gould This Weekend…
Stephen Jay Gould is one of my heroes for many reasons. I love thinking about evolution (I’ve done some prior work looking at founder effects in humans), and Gould has some many interesting ideas in the field of evolutionary science. More importantly, I love his writing style. If I could emulate him in terms ofContinue reading “Reading Some Gould This Weekend…”
Creativity in Nature
Recently, I have been reading “A Purpose for Everything” by Charles Birch. He is a geneticist, and importantly (to me), he is a proponent of process philosophy / process theology. I have been reading his book very slowly. Hey, I’m a pediatric gastroenterologist with a busy schedule! Anyway, P. 38 (Twenty-Third Publishing version) made anContinue reading “Creativity in Nature”
Panexperientialism
Ahh, now to the most difficult of the three “p“s of Naturalismppp — panexperientialism. It is actually not that difficult, but it kind of runs into the realm of woo spirituality / New Age thinking if taken into silly realms. Panexperientialism basically means that every entity has “experience”. Lots of thoughts here, but let usContinue reading “Panexperientialism”
Panentheism
In my continuation of explaining the 3 “p“s of natural theology, the second p of Naturalismppp is panentheism. This term is often mistaken for “pantheism.” There is nothing wrong with a word like pantheism. It simply means God or gods are in every natural thing. “Panentheism”, on the other hand, simply means all are inContinue reading “Panentheism”
Prehension
In order to understand the concept of God in the world without the need of the supernatural, the term Naturalismppp has been developed by Griffin. Three philosophical ideas (the three “p“s) with theological overlap can describe God in such a setting — prehension, panentheism, and panexperientialism. It is completely reasonable to believe in supernatural eventsContinue reading “Prehension”
Morality
Morality — I put the idea right up there with consciousness in terms of items we don’t understand. Many religious people are immoral as seen in world history. Some of the most moral people I have ever met are atheists. War, murder, eating animals, tax evasion, not helping the poor, etc.: I would think thatContinue reading “Morality”
The Demarcation Problem
I’ve been reading through Sean Carroll’s well written article on ArXiv about his concerns surrounding Karl Popper’s “falsifiability” argument to separate science from non-science. Awesome. However, I wonder how much he is leaning on the problems of “falsifiability” in the setting of Everettian interpretation? Carroll is a proponent of this “many worlds” interpretation. I amContinue reading “The Demarcation Problem”
Phi-The-Sci: Equilateral Musings 