Category Archives: Religious

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God Of The Philosophers

Theology And The God Of The Philosophers The God that philosophers in the early modern period intended to refer to was the God of the Judeo-Christian tradition, which is to say, the being who created the world, who spoke to … Continue reading

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The Glory Of Heaven

Let me see if you can get your head around this. How large is an Atom in inches? Roughly 4 billionths of an inch. How large is our solar system? The distance to the farthest planet Neptune is nearly 3 … Continue reading

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Fine Tuned For Life

If the deep laws of the universe had been ever so slightly different human beings wouldn’t, and couldn’t, exist. All explanations of this exquisite fine-tuning, obvious and not-so-obvious, have problems or complexities. Natural or supernatural, that is the question. Why … Continue reading

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Biblical Series

Lecture I in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series from May 16th at Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto. In this lecture, I describe what I consider to be the idea of God, which is at least partly the … Continue reading

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Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson

In one general sense, philosophy is associated with wisdom, intellectual culture, and a search for knowledge. In this sense, all cultures and literate societies ask philosophical questions, such as “how are we to live” and “what is the nature of … Continue reading

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