Sigmund Freud famously described the psychological phenomenon known as projection, in which a person projects their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or behaviors onto others. This allows one to avoid recognizing these traits in themselves, and avoid accepting responsibility for their actions. A good example would be a person who is having an affair and thereby accuses their spouse of having an affair, in order to compensate for intense guilt.
Projection… Read More
Is God real? In short, yes, and this is much easier to perceive when we first consider how our perception of reality has been distorted by our culture:
Have you ever suspected that you are living in the matrix? If so, you are not alone. Many very smart people have considered this to be a very real possibility. For example, an Inc.com article notes that billionaire Elon Musk (of Tesla… Read More
Darwinism is wrong. A little story helps to put Darwinism into the broader context of the history of science:
Your neighbor Steve receives a knock on the door one day, and two police officers inform him that they are taking him down to station to answer some questions about a recent murder. He is brought to the station and seated in an interrogation room. A detective enters and proceeds to… Read More
Imagine if, one evening, you were enjoying dinner at a restaurant until a person at the next table lit up a cigarette and clouded your face with smoke. You politely point out the no smoking sign on the wall, but the person smoking the cigarette defends himself by insisting that the sign is “nothing but” ink and paper. He defies you to prove otherwise. Such arguments (which C.S. Lewis referred… Read More
Much as Dorothy’s dog Toto pulled back the curtain to reveal a hidden man creating the illusion of the Wizard of Oz, one can pull back the curtain on the illusion of unintelligent natural mechanisms causing the origin of life. And when the curtain is pulled back on the most often cited evidence for these alleged mechanisms, there is actually a man hidden back there. Yes, the origin of life… Read More
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
By suggesting that they “believe in evolution rather than creationism,” people who subscribe to Charles Darwin ‘s theory are pulling off (either deliberately or subconsciously) what amounts to a philosophical Trojan Horse. For those who don’t recall the history behind this term, below is an excerpt from the Wikipedia Post for Trojan Horse:
The … Read More
Is God real? In short, yes, and this is much easier to perceive when we first consider how our perception of reality has been distorted by our culture:
Have you ever suspected that you are living in the matrix? If so, you are not alone. Many very smart people have considered this to be a very real possibility. For example, an Inc.com article notes that billionaire Elon Musk (of Tesla… Read More
Darwinism is wrong. A little story helps to put Darwinism into the broader context of the history of science:
Your neighbor Steve receives a knock on the door one day, and two police officers inform him that they are taking him down to station to answer some questions about a recent murder. He is brought to the station and seated in an interrogation room. A detective enters and proceeds to… Read More
Imagine if, one evening, you were enjoying dinner at a restaurant until a person at the next table lit up a cigarette and clouded your face with smoke. You politely point out the no smoking sign on the wall, but the person smoking the cigarette defends himself by insisting that the sign is “nothing but” ink and paper. He defies you to prove otherwise. Such arguments (which C.S. Lewis referred… Read More
Much as Dorothy’s dog Toto pulled back the curtain to reveal a hidden man creating the illusion of the Wizard of Oz, one can pull back the curtain on the illusion of unintelligent natural mechanisms causing the origin of life. And when the curtain is pulled back on the most often cited evidence for these alleged mechanisms, there is actually a man hidden back there. Yes, the origin of life… Read More
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
By suggesting that they “believe in evolution rather than creationism,” people who subscribe to Charles Darwin ‘s theory are pulling off (either deliberately or subconsciously) what amounts to a philosophical Trojan Horse. For those who don’t recall the history behind this term, below is an excerpt from the Wikipedia Post for Trojan Horse:
The … Read More