Faith Well Grounded

First, I need to apologize for my absence into everyday life for the past month or so. I was sick for a while. More recently, I have had tremendous opportunities to both teach and be taught. So, my blogging presence has been almost nonexistent. I hope to remedy this.

Now, onto part two of the discussion on “miracles”.

LaffingBoy asked the thunder-stealing question as to exactly what a miracle is. I will agree with Thomas Huxley, in that we are merely “beating the air” until we can agree on this. Let me offer a working definition:

I saw the below article at cyberkitten's blog. I decided to form a brief response to each point of the article, as originally seen:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-harris24dec24,0,3994298.story?...

10 myths—and 10 Truths—About Atheism

By Sam Harris for The Los Angeles Times

December 24, 2006

A word about directionality: Evolution does not have a direction. Organisms can go towards complexity or simplicity. It's all determined by the environment and selection pressures. Just because humans are complex multi-cellular animals doesn't mean we've had the most evolution. Every living creature today is the result of the same amount of evolutionary time.

CS Lewis, in "Miracles", proposed that we can not trust our rationale if it is the result of mindless, unplanned, irrational causes. In other words, if the string of rationality is broken in the cause-effect string going back, then there is no rationality.

The implication is that if our logic and rationality is the result of naturalistic evolution, then we can't trust that logic and rationality. If our rationality is thus caused, then the rationality of naturalism has no basis and is self-defeating and internally inconsistent.

Yes... I'm back into the writings of Richard Morris. If you've followed my blog posts, you'll know that I love his writings. To say that I respect the late Mr. Morris would be a huge understatement.

This week, it's "The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul" (Freeman, 2001). This posts isn't necessarily about evolution, though I added it as a category since this is an associated subject and the blog is fueled by reading on such. This post, as usual, is about the Naturalistic philosophy being paraded as science.