You may have heard the unfortunate story. A health and wealth, prosperity, word of faith mega-church in Texas has been encouraging their members to decline vaccinations because of their aberrant word of faith theology. The result? A spike in measles infections. Jerry Coyne then weighs in on the issue with an article titled “Measles back […]
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Does theology make progress? A response to Jerry Coyne
I was asked to provide a response to Jerry Coyne’s essay “A sophisticated theologian explains why theology doesn’t progress.” In the essay Coyne focuses on mocking J.P. Moreland for a book he wrote back in 1989 on the reconciliation of theology and science. Coyne is not a charitable reader. Indeed, he is one who wears […]
Should we believe the universe exists?
TAM quoted Jerry Coyne as asking “what conceivable observation about the universe could convince you that God does not exist?” I responded by attempting to draw out the principles lying behind Coyne’s question. And I came up with the following: (a) If there are no conceivable observations of the universe that could convince you that […]
