Jul 14 2008

Philosophical Observations on Deity and Atheism

Published by Shane at 1:49 pm under Deepness, Spirit

From William Lane Craig, research professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology.

Read the article - it deals with some of the classic arguments for the existence of a god, revised by modern philosophy.

I am more startled by the below quote:

The idea that we live in a postmodern culture is a myth. In fact, a postmodern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable. People are not relativistic when it comes to matters of science, engineering, and technology; rather, they are relativistic and pluralistic in matters of religion and ethics. But, of course, that’s not postmodernism; that’s modernism! That’s just old-line verificationism, which held that anything you can’t prove with your five senses is a matter of personal taste. We live in a culture that remains deeply modernist.

I’ve been reading so much on postmodernism that I don’t know what to do with this idea.  I’ll need to think about it for a while.

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