Mielenkiintoinen juttu tiedemiehen kääntymisestä kristityksi.
An essay on Religion from Salvo #62 in Great Escapes
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"I was still into process philosophy when I embraced intelligent design theory, so my support for ID had nothing to do with religion, but only with scientific arguments. I had come to see that Neo-Darwinism simply fails to explain the diversity and complexity of life and that these are better explained by an infusion of information from outside the system. The information does not have to come from a divine, miraculous intervention, but of course that would be compatible with such a view.
[...] I definitely did not find what I had expected when I started looking into sophisticated apologetics. I read a lot and watched the debates of William Lane Craig and others. These introduced me to philosophical arguments for theism. What most impressed me were the argument from the fine-tuning of the universe, the argument from reason, the argument from contingency (to answer the question, “why is there anything rather than nothing?”), the argument from the uncanny effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences, and the argument for God as the very source of the laws of nature.
[...] Yet here were intelligent and rational Christians making a strong case for the reliability of the Gospels, for fulfilled prophecy, and for the historicity of the resurrection of Christ. The arguments were not based on faith but on empirical evidence and the ordinary methods of secular historians."
Paljon on itselläni opiskeltavaa noista em. aiheista, jos pitäisi kaikkea osata. Mutta kiintoisia aiheita, joita voi tutkailla, jos aikaa ja kiinnostusta löytyy. Katsoin jotain kuuluisaa debattia Youtubessa William Lane Craigin ja jonkun ateistin välillä (
Atheism vs Christianity: Where does the evidence point? (Full Video)), jonka seurauksena kymmeniä kääntyi kristityiksi, mutta en kuunnellut täysin loppuun asti...