Enjoying the wilderness
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Scientist, philosopher, clergyman, wilderness adventurer, husband, nature photographer, …
The Voyage — Norman Ault, 1916
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Memory Lake by Kirk Durston
As my father reached the final days of his life, he wept over three regrets and how swiftly his 92 years of life had fled by. Within this context, he uttered the most powerful statement of his life, and it continues to echo in my mind. I do not want to find myself making the same statement before I die.
Research has shown that certain fundamental laws of logic and mathematics are 'pre-programmed’ into an infant’s mind. This enables them to recognize there is an external reality and allows them to start reasoning and accumulating knowledge. But how can we be confident that what we think we know is true?
There are many people, according to Jesus, who claim to “follow Jesus” and are even in positions of Christian influence and leadership, but who will find out they have been badly mistaken. How do we distinguish between a ‘pseudo-conversion’ and becoming a true follower of Christ?
A theist may sometimes use a god-of-the-gaps argument when faced with a gap in our knowledge for a natural explanation for something. But if that gap begins to be filled with evidence from science, history, or logic and it increasingly points to God, a non-theist will often make a fantasy-of-the-gaps move to avoid it.
Enjoying the wilderness
Scientist, philosopher, clergyman, wilderness adventurer, husband, nature photographer, …
The Voyage — Norman Ault, 1916
Short videos and formal debates
Memory Lake by Kirk Durston