A Debate on Free Will
This is the audio of a friendly dialogue on Calvinism & Molinism.
An Interview on Evolution
This is the audio of a conversation I had on the compatibility of evolution and Christianity. First, we survey some of the popular views of creation (e.g. Neo-Ussherianism, day-age, observations of Moses, etc). Next, I argue that once we understand the Hebrew Bible in the literary context of the ancient Near East (ANE), most of the conflict between scripture and evolution evaporates. Questions range from death before the Fall, literal Adam, and dino footprints.
My Interview with RED-C Radio
This is an interview I did with RED-C Catholic Radio in College Station. I discuss my faith journey, the importance of faith & reason, and my work with Ratio Christi at Texas A&M University. This episode was part of a project called Faith in the Workplace wherein RED-C interviewed representatives from several religious organizations at the TAMU campus. More information about this project can be found at the Faith in the Workplace website.
Also, just to pre-empt any rumours, I’m not Catholic. My (quite Protestant) beliefs can be found here.
Every #RaviTAMU Question
(Or at least every question I could find)
This is a post that I started over a year and a half ago. I found it in my drafts. Here you go!
April 1, 2014
Ravi Zacharias came to Texas A&M for the 2014 Veritas Forum. A part of the lecture included a Q&A populated by questions on Twitter under the tag ‘#RaviTAMU’. Unfortunately, Ravi did not address all of them despite some of them being really thought provoking. Today, I scoured the #RaviTAMU tag and copied all the questions I could find. I’ve grouped them into similar categories.
Molinism v Calvinism Debate
Richard Bushey (thereforegodexists.com) and I defend Molinism in a 2v2 debate against Josh Sommer (seeinggodministeries.com) and TurretinFan (turretinfan.blogspot.com).
Video:
Update on Where I’ve Been and Stuff
This past month, I worked at Pine Cove Camps which was a rather awesome experience. Here are some photos for proof:
Kids shoving me into the lake. See more at http://www.pinecove.com/photo-gallery/
Tying some shoes. More at http://www.pinecove.com/photo-gallery/
Long live Pi Chi Tau. See more at facebook.com/pinecovestaffalumni
So, that’s what I’ve been up to for the past seven or so weeks. Now that First Half is done, I’m doing some summer school getting ready for Fall 2014.
However, you’re probably asking yourself (“Self..”) what am I going to be posting next (“…what is caplawson going to be posting next?”)? Back in May, I posted a critique of James White’s dealings with Molinism. Essentially, he stated his arguments were against William Lane Craig’s version of Molinism; however, it seemed to me that Dr. White wasn’t interacting with Dr. Craig’s responses to the grounding objection. So, I summarized three of Dr. Craig’s published works on the grounding objection and offered some of my personal input on the issue. Dr. White then took time in his subsequent edition of the Dividing Line to go through and interact with my post; that episode can be found at this link. I was quite honoured to have been the topic of discussion and also to have the URL read on air; the effects of which were evident rather quickly.
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Unforeseen developments notwithstanding, my next article will be my response to Dr. White which will include some clarifications, apologies, and counter-arguments. As far as future content on this blog goes, I’m going to continue focusing on Molinism and I’m planning on releasing the second, revised version of my theological argument against a common young-Earth view of animal death.
S.D.G.
Event: Dr. Nabeel Qureshi
If you’re in the College Station area, you should definitely come see Dr. Nabeel Qureshi on March 17. The Facebook event can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/events/260405630803741
thoughts on being a “Jesus Feminist”
Interesting read
A few weeks ago, for the first time, I used the word “feminist” to describe myself.
Not because something radical has changed about what I believe about women and men, but because I’ve realized that I’m no longer interested in hiding from a word in order to avoid other people’s ideas about that word.
Of course, it’s not quite fair to say that nothing has changed.
I listened to classmates declare that they have gotten “Him’d” out of male depictions for God. I announced my intention to refer to the Holy Spirit as “she” instead of “he” or “it.” (“You’re one of those people,” responded a friend.) I realized that I can’t stand words like “brotherhood” to describe the Christian family, and I cringe when a song refers to “men” and means the whole body of Christ. I have even started to wonder about words like “fellowship.” (I’m not…
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I’m kinda famous
Some months ago, I submitted my (currently) only two posts on this blog to a website knows as God of Evolution and they got featured on the website.
