by Phil Braham | Jul 26, 2018 | Atheism, General, Philosophy, Religion and mysticism, Scepticism
We are often told that science and religion are mutually incompatible. The reasoning goes that religion is based on faith and science is based on facts and experimentation. I’ve even heard it said that religious people should not be employed in scientific...
by Phil Braham | Jul 4, 2018 | General, Philosophy, Religion and mysticism
Belief in God is nowadays seen as an antiquated view. After all, hasn’t God been replaced by Science? Everything, so we are told, can be explained by science or if not it will be understood by using the scientific method. There was a time when people felt as if they...
by Phil Braham | Aug 20, 2018 | General, Philosophy, Science
There is a view which is expounded, predominantly by Atheists, that science is objective and impartial. I was told by a member of a skeptics association that peer review guaranteed that science was impartial. Apparently Richard Feynman said that Philosophy...
by Phil Braham | Aug 17, 2018 | General, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion and mysticism, The universe
Its often said that human beings are logical and the brain works by processing information. To understand why this is so wrong we should start by understanding what logic is. Formal deductive logic works as follows: If A is so and B is so then C must be so. For...
by Phil Braham | Aug 12, 2018 | General, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion and mysticism
The problem of free will is this: do we have a choice to make the decisions we do with no force from anywhere else, or are our decisions determined by factors that are beyond our control? In one version is a body of belief, held by hard core Atheists, that the...
by Phil Braham | Jul 16, 2018 | Atheism, General, Philosophy, Religion and mysticism, Scepticism
In this series of articles I’m looking at the Atheists’ question ‘Why do bad things happen to good people’ or ‘If God is all good then how is it that He lets bad things happen’ or so on. The question takes many forms but in the end they boil down to one question: How...
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