Believe Differently

I started writing this as a response to Saj’s comment on my post on scientific truth, but actually I got a little airborne in my thinking and decided to frame it as a new post.
Saj quoted James Watson:
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
… and got me thinking.

I am currently re-reading Brian D. McLaren’s “The Secret Message of Jesus” and want to quote verbatim some of his thoughts which tie in very closely, but from a slightly different perspective, with the post I wrote a while back entitled “Intelligent Design”. In that post I questioned the mechanistic metaphor behind and inferred by [...]

In my last post on this subject I concentrated on the philosophy of Hume and Popper and linked it with Kuhn’s thesis on the “Structure of Scientific Revolutions”. My intention was to try and demonstrate why it is philosophically not viable to consider the scientific world view the standard by which we measure all truth. [...]

During an idle work conversation with a colleague the other day, we got onto the subject of “Intelligent Design”, and it provoked a thought  which made me realize just how loaded the “Design” word actually is. To speak of creation being “designed” is to invoke, almost subconsciously, a huge deterministic mechanistic metaphor for interpreting our reality – the [...]

Nietzsche suggests that all life can be characterised by a “will to power”; that all life essentially shares an ambition to dominate and exercise control over its neighbour. He saw this not only in the dimension of human relations but all the way down to that of the lot of a micro organism.1 Effectively life, even [...]

There is a popular platitude within Evangelical Christian circles which is framed as a prayer and goes along the lines:
More of you Lord, and less of me.
It seems to echo the words of John the Baptist and as such has an air of profundity. I no longer buy it though. The last time I heard [...]