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Brad Paisley has a new music video out (full disclosure: I am a fan) that I think captures a very important idea about the time and global culture in which we live. Change is always occurring. In a way, everyday is a revolution. The Gospel does not change. But connecting the Gospel to the world is unique for every generation. Check out the video.
It is not uncommon to hear the claim–most loudly by Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion–that religious belief is a delusion. I came across a quote by Professor Keith Ward in Is Religion Dangerous?
“All that is needed to refute the claim that religious belief is a delusion is one clear example of someone who exhibits a high degree of rational ability, who functions well in the ordinary affairs of life, whose faith seems to enable them to live well and be happy, and who can produce a reasonable and coherent defense of their beliefs.” (172)
Well there are lots of people who fit the bill (like Alvin Plantinga for example). But I will enter into evidence as exhibit A, Christian Philosopher J.P. Moreland, author of The God Question. In this book he shares both personal reasons from his experience and rational arguments for why it makes sense. I guess religion isn’t a delusion after all.
The final film in Illustra Media’s long-planned Intelligent Design trilogy is Darwin’s Dilemma.
This documentary will examine what many consider to be the most powerful refutation of Darwinian evolution—the Cambrian fossil record. Charles Darwin realized that the fossil evidence did not support his theory of gradual, step-by-step evolutionary development. He hoped that future generations of scientists would make the discoveries necessary to validate his ideas. Today, after more than 150 years of exploration fossil evidence of slow, incremental biological change has yet to be excavated. Instead, we find a picture of the rapid appearance of fully developed, complex organisms during the outset of the Cambrian geological era. Organisms that embody almost all of the major animal body plans that exist today. This remarkable explosion of life is best explained by the existence of a transcendent intelligence. Darwin’s Dilemma will be released on September 15, 2009.
Is religion dangerous? Is it evil? Should it be eliminated at all costs? How should we think about religion in a global society?
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