Alvin Plantinga’s essay “Materialism and Christian Belief”¹ argues for dualism by attempting to show that a material thing can’t think. He writes: “The difficulty for materialism is this: how does it happen, how can it be, that an assemblage of neurons, a group of material objects firing away has content?” Plantinga, in part through Leibniz, [...]
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Plantinga’s Reductionisms
Posted in Philosophy, tagged consciousness, dennet, dualism, mind, plantinga, soul on March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Brief Vitriol on “Expelled”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ben stein, berlinski, darwinism, evolution, expelled, intelligent design, science on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I finally saw “Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed,” and found it tremendously disappointing. This was ID’s coming out party, their Nessun Dorma, so not only did I expect them to put on their best show, their most robust arguments (albeit for a general audience), but also a modicum of integrity. But the rank intellectual dishonesty puts [...]
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