Two Types of Faith in the Philosophy of Religion

People develop trust in God from two very different sources of evidence – what philosophers call impartialist and partialist.
Metaphysical Faith (MF) comes primarily from “impartialist” evidence and experiences most people can access. Religious Faith (RF) is trust in God based on the partialist evidence and experiences of particular religious communities and their teachings.

How Chaos Theory Refutes the Blind Watchmaker of Richard Dawkins

I would like to briefly examine the claim, made by advocates of Neo-Darwinism and others, that advances in contemporary systems theory now give a rational explanation for the development of highly complex structures in the universe without recourse to the hypothesis of a Divine Creator. Further, I will show that such claims, while purporting to […]