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Where Science and Miracles Meet
All science can do, Kalanithi argues, is “reduce phenomena into manageable units.” It can make “claims about matter and energy” but about nothing else.
Timothy Keller • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
Religion is not a coherent set of propositions that are either true or false, the way a scientific theory is. Instead, many people believe because of their personal subjective experiences. These might include the awe and wonder of nature, the intimacy of belonging to a close community, or the comforting experience of hearing God speak to you in a f
... See moreKeith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
what I definitely believe is that the great religions, all of them and the great mystical traditions of Buddhism and Taoism, and so on, have central truths that they hold in common, and that these are a kind of wisdom that are not appreciated, unless one is brought up in a tradition that helped one see
them. And our tradition is dead against seeing
... See moreUnHerd • Dr Iain McGilchrist: We Are Living in a Deluded World
Someone like Uncle Charles makes unbelief plausible but far from inevitable. You now know someone who doesn’t believe in God or transcendence, contending that all is material, but that’s all it is until freshman biology or physics 101.