III. Mere men: man’s limitations in knowledge When crossing a desert, water does a traveler little good if he does not have a vessel to transport the water. If his canteen is cracked, then it cannot hold water. In this situation, water is only useful to the traveler if canteen itself works. Likewise, Ectypal… Continue Reading
The Only Foundation of True Theology: Archetypal and Ectypal Theology With the Use of Analogy – Part I
I. Introduction Anyone can remember when they thought one thing about a person, be it good or ill, and, after hearing something new about them, drastically changed how they thought about them. You may think a person is nice, when they are double-faced. You may think someone is selfishly aloof, when they serve people without… Continue Reading
“Stupid Round Things,” Other Contingent Things, & the Existence of God
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German philosopher, mathematician, a metaphysician and an expert in logic who is recognized for his independent invention of the differential and integral calculus (imagine being able to include “I invented calculus” on your resume)! To put it bluntly, Leibniz was a smart dude! While it is impressive to be able to “invent calculus,” in my opinion,… Continue Reading
God’s Veritable Domain
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?” — Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto There is no question that the activities of science and religion have very different aims; their boundaries are wide and goalposts divergent. For starters, science is taken to lead humanity towards a technological utopia free… Continue Reading
Fine Tuning and the Probability of Adam and Eve: Part 4
Increasing Homozygosity Affirms the Adam and Eve Hypothesis Recognizing the increase of entropy and the slow march toward heat death had implications for the beginning of the universe as a space-time singularity, Roger Penrose in the 1970s posited the need for a state of low entropy in the classic Big Bang model.[1] Similarity, since the… Continue Reading
Fine Tuning and the Probability of Adam and Eve: Part 3
Increasing Homozygosity Predicts Extinction In accord with the Primary Axiom, both ND biologists and physicists have assumed for decades that natural selection must be the counter-balance to biological entropy. John Polkinghorne recognized the conflict between what he labeled the “pessimistic arrow of time” reflected in thermodynamic entropy and the seeming complexification of biological systems. His… Continue Reading
Fine Tuning and the Probability of Adam and Eve: Part 2
Entropy and the Biological Connection Around 1850, physicists Sir. William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and Rudolf Clausius established both the First Law of Thermodynamics—while the diverse energy forms within a system are interchangeable, the total energy of a closed system is conserved—and the Second Law of Thermodynamics— over time, the energy convertible to work in a closed system irreversibly decreases… Continue Reading
Fine Tuning and the Probability of Adam and Eve: Part 1
This is the first post in a series that is designed as a discussion starter about the scientific probability of Adam and Eve. The argument is a unique apologetic advancing the philosophical argument for Fine Tuning by applying new genomic research into the controversial study of human origins. As each part is posted, I invite… Continue Reading
