Ian Thompson @theisticscience

Connecting theism (from philosophy and religion) with physics and psychology (of science), without reductionism. Book: Starting Science From God, by @Ian4851 beginningtheisticscience.com Joined February 2011

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Ian Thompson @theisticscience

6 years ago

Tom Holland argues that much we consider to be intrinsic and instinctive human values are actually not, but are primarily and fundamentally the product of Christianity and would not exist without the last 2000 years of Christian dominance on our culture. historyforatheists.com/2020/01/tom-ho…

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6 years ago

Whether we are we are committed to scientific orthodoxy or are open-minded, we need to cultivate a relentless scrutiny of the concrete sources of our most fundamental convictions — including authorities on which they rest perhaps a little too willingly. theweek.com/articles/88788…

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6 years ago

Spiritual poverty – What does it mean? It is an absence of what traditionally has been known as the various human virtues. The New Testament notion of being ‘poor in spirit’ is to recognise this spiritual poverty in oneself. spiritualquestions.org.uk/2020/01/spirit…

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6 years ago

If my Essence is an Enduring Self. My psychological states constantly change, but I remain the very same self throughout these differing psychological states. Ian Wardell at ian-wardell.blogspot.com/2019/12/if-my-…

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6 years ago

What Is Abstract Thought? A Reply to Dr. Ali | Mind Matters. Does cutting the brain in half have no effect on abstract thought? And simultaneously that delicate complexity and interconnection is essential for abstract thought? Spot any conflict? mindmatters.ai/2019/07/what-i…

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6 years ago

In Remembrance of the War of Jehovah Doug Webber explains at dream-prophecy.blogspot.com/2019/05/in-rem…

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6 years ago

As the church fathers pointed out, God might forgive you, but that doesn't change the vulnerability of your mortal flesh to the forces of Sin and Death! Something has to change your very being if you want to be fully saved and liberated from Sin and Death. experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2019/05/disenc…

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6 years ago

Inspirations from Swedenborg and Feyerabend: A Conversation with Nuclear Physicist Ian J. Thompson forbiddenhistories.com/swedenborg-fey… via @ForbidHistories. Some history and some future

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6 years ago

In the Divine Comedy Satan is a vision of a living death. The point is this: Hell isn't a heroic rebellion against an unjust tyranny. Hell is, rather, rebellion against the Love that sustains, warms, and gives life to the world. experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-di…

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Ian Thompson @theisticscience

7 years ago

Philosophical Thoughts: NDE’s, burden of proof, and Ockham’s razor: Ian Wardell disputes that those disposed to believe NDE’s suggest an afterlife bear the burden of proof, or that appealing to Ockham’s razor renders the afterlife hypothesis unlikely. ian-wardell.blogspot.com/2019/04/ndes-b…

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7 years ago

When we blame dualism on Descartes, we attribute to him the power of imposing his ideas on on a whole civilisation for three centuries together. In reality, this kind of power is so rare that it would be of founders of religions, not of philosophers. newdualism.org/papers/R.Bolto…

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7 years ago

The array of ills attributed to dualism is staggering. But I am skeptical of these claims by physicalist biblical & theological scholars since they smack of confusion between dualism and something such as reductionism or assimilation by political ideology. academia.edu/34853023/Duali…

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7 years ago

The Enlightenment smuggled in Judeo-Christian values. They praised themselves as Apostles of Reason, but their entire project was "constituted at its core by a practice of pervasive deception and self-deception." The Metaphysics of Morality: Part 3. experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-me…

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7 years ago

Profiling the Atheist - Michael Tymn blog on White Crow Books: Over the years, I have developed a profile of the typical hard-core atheist. They may not have all of the characteristics indicated below, but here are 21 fairly common characteristics: whitecrowbooks.com/michaeltymn/en…

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7 years ago

Jung and Swedenborg: Individuation and Collective Consciousness dream-prophecy.blogspot.com/2018/11/jung-a…

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7 years ago

Which is first: will or the understanding? Love or Wisdom? Esau (emotional) or Jacob (clever)? Feser (below) wants intellectualism: understanding leads will. But really, a good religious life has to unite BOTH. Should be a marriage of love and wisdom! edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-vo…

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7 years ago

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Ian Thompson @theisticscience

7 years ago

What is wrong with recent identity politics and intersectionality? An internal contradiction: For these applied postmodernists, objectivity may remain impossible, but identity and oppression based upon it are objectively real. areomagazine.com/2018/09/25/ide…

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7 years ago

A Deist in Christian Clothing? Lamoureux unwittingly encourages Christians to embrace no meaningful dialogue between faith and science but self-imposed intellectual captivity where they surrender their right to critically evaluate materialist theories. evolutionnews.org/2018/09/a-deis…

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7 years ago

A fourth hypothesis on mind-body problem by Prémontval (1716–1764). His “psychocracy” hypothesis: there is a real influence between soul and body, but that this was an immaterial kind of influence as opposed to the physical kind. Lloyd Strickland at dx.doi.org/10.3998/ergo.1…