A Mind is Always Present: Materialism’s Fatal Flaw
Materialism, the doctrine that the entire cosmos and all living things can ultimately be reduced to mindless stuff, has many fundamental flaws. Here is one of them: Even in the mindless, God-less, designer-less worldview of materialism, a mind is still present. Where is this mind? In the head of a scientific theorist who imagines that the intelligence and organizational ability of dead and dumb matter Read more...
Einstein’s Moon
Albert Einstein famously said that, "belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science." This statement has become the governing principle of modern science and, in fact, the very definition of reality. It is echoed by leading modern scientists such as Lee Smolin, who writes in the The Trouble with Physics (p. 6-7), that “Physicists have traditionally expected Read more...
The Realization That Together We Dream the World
Webster's Third New International Dictionary defines the term "radical" as "marked by a considerable departure from the usual or traditional." In our modern world, the "usual or traditional" takes many forms, including "what most people think," "what you grew up believing," "what your religious teachers say," or, on a grander scale, the governing scientific worldview. It is my premise that the governing scientific worldview underlies and Read more...
Give Peace a Real Chance
Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18, King James Version At this moment in history, there are 10 wars in progress, 1 billion people have no job, 3 billion people live in poverty, 800 million don’t have enough to eat, 100 million don’t have a home, 93 people per day are killed by guns in the U.S., and the Read more...
An Interview with Tim Freke – The Soul Crisis
Modern science describes the workings of the physical world, and religion tries to do the same for the spiritual world. But science has reached its limits in seeking to define the universe as simply a mindless machine governed by impersonal and random forces. Religion forgets that God -- and our conception of this Being -- must itself evolve with time. Thus, we must go beyond Read more...