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idealism

Mystics, Skeptics, and Nothing Buttery

August 5, 2016 by Randal

In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks offers an interesting neurological account of the visions of the great mystic Hildegard of Bingen. Sacks recounts one of Hildegard’s writings titled “The Fall of the Angels” where she describes witnessing the fall of Satan and his minions: “I saw a great star most […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Donald MacKay, idealism, mysticism, nothing buttery, Oliver Sacks, reductionism, science, skepticism

The new Idealism? A perspective on the Richard Carrier-Mark Goodacre debate on Jesus Mythicism

February 18, 2013 by Randal

The other day I listened to the December 15, 2012 episode of Justin Brierley’s “Unbelievable” radio show which featured a debate between Richard Carrier and Mark Goodacre on the issue of Jesus mythicism. (You can listen by downloading it from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/unbelievable/id267142101.) Carrier argued that the Jesus-was-a-myth theory was a live historical theory and may, in fact, be the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: idealism, Jesus Mythicism, Mark Goodacre, Richard Carrier, Unbelievable

Ockham again?

January 5, 2011 by Randal

Certain issues keep arising (or being raised, or bubbling to the surface) in the blog, and no matter how many times I deal with them the answers somehow don’t seem to take root. But hope springs eternal, so here goes again… S1lverbullet raises a criticism against my critique of Maitzen’s argument: “you sound an awful […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, idealism, naturalism, Ockham's razor, Stephen Maitzen, theism

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