Design Theology

Here's a great contribution by Steven Meyers on the Return of the God Hypothesis that touches on themes relevant to developing a design-engaged theology as a part of the special issue on design-engaged theology.

Return of the God Hypothesis: How New Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief – Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies Return of the God Hypothesis: How New Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief Stephen C. MeyerStephen C. Meyer is Director of the Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute Abstract: This essay contends that three major scientific discoveries during the last century provide evidence....

Hopeful Horizons | Joshua Farris A 2024 Review of Consciousness, Culture, and the Renewal of American Ideals

Assuming voting matters still, and there’s hope for democracy, do carefully search your heart and pray hard. Gagnon has carefully and thoughtfully framed the two principal issues (1. Human life and value and 2. Complimentarity of the sexes) of which society rests and flourishes. No doubt there are other important issues and we can consider a host of holistic matters, but these are in principle fundamental and necessary to society’s flourishing.

Encore: A New Testament Scholar Explains What Should Be the Two Key Voting Concerns for Christians - Christ Over All Two idols strike at the heart of God's creational design than others. And these idols are worth opposing with all our might.

Looking forward to it Ronnie Campbell. The publisher sent me a copy!

Creationism of the soul really isn't a crazy idea.
The Creation of Self

https://mindmatters.ai/2024/10/why-creationism-isnt-so-crazy-after-all/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGD1kdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQawU2ljB5VFaxH4tAkub7sB4WZdYf_gVeEK3lKlTwVVjEi_25EE-vMBvA_aem_9RYHdM-jc1sMyaHhk4DK5w

Why Creationism Isn’t So Crazy After All If materialism fails to account for the origin of the soul, then creationism—not as a fringe theory, but as a viable explanation—deserves serious consideration.

Why Creationism Isn’t So Crazy After All If materialism fails to account for the origin of the soul, then creationism—not as a fringe theory, but as a viable explanation—deserves serious consideration.

A nice review of a student of my theological anthropology course for Awakening School of Theology.

Going on a show in 30 minutes to discuss the weirdness of mycelium and whether these produce conscious substances. Should be interesting.

Bertrand Russell was far too complicated a figure to simply stop at "despiser of religion," as Harwood explains in Mad About Belief.

Book Review: "Mad about Belief" | The North American Anglican Mad about Belief: Religion in the Life and Thought of Bertrand Russell. By Larry D. Harwood. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2024. 362 pp. $66 (hardback), $46 (paper). Bertrand Russell is often analyzed in terms of his philosophical ideas, logic, and critiques of religion. In fact, he is often ta...