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How Do We Tell A True Act of God From A False One?

jmcgee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:46:50 +0000

Dear Michael: Thank you again for this exchange, Michael; I am grateful that you took the time to teach me with such patience and tolerance. In all honesty, I can't follow your subtle discussion of the relationship between natural laws and Divine Providence. The fault is mine. I think you are saying that miracles and divine intervention are consistent with the laws of nature. In any case, I am perfectly happy to grant you miracles for the sake of argument. The question I have been trying to...

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Do You Wonder About the Source of Meaning?

hmacdonald — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:51:30 +0000

Dear Heather, I really enjoy the way you conduct a path through our disagreements. You are tough, but open to differences. As we have agreed from the first, to achieve real disagreement is a long-term task; it takes a lot of brandies sipped slowly together (so to speak) to get past the misunderstandings that masquerade as disagreements, in order to find the deep place where the two parties (amicably) part ways. Some atheists do invent a heroic image of themselves, but maybe that generation has...

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What About Other Religions?

jmcgee — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:21:02 +0000

Dear Michael: Thank you so much for your candid and probing response; it is most illuminating. Before addressing your final question, I am going to risk characterizing your presentation of religious faith. Some of our readers, if not you yourself, may find this presumptuous; if so, I accept their criticism. It seems to me that your version of religion is a highly intellectualized one--admirably reflecting your own passions. But those aspects of faith which you label "kitsch," Michael, are as...

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Faith Is Not Just Belief

hmacdonald — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:48:33 +0000

Dear Heather: There are many aspects of popular Catholic faith that have sometimes shocked me and turned me away. Yet I well remember visiting the great Catholic shrine at Czestechowa, in Poland, where once almost a million people turned out for Pope John Paul II when he first pierced the Iron Curtain to visit his homeland. On my visit, I was a little sickened by all the kitsch and the "buyers and sellers in the Temple ." And also by all the outer devotion of peasant piety, the jostling, the...

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How are Reason and Faith Compatible?

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:34:04 +0000

Dear Michael, It is an honor to discuss these profound matters with you again. I couldn't hope for a wiser or more generous interlocutor. I would like to take up your invitation to locate the "exact areas of disagreement" between believers and unbelievers. While we could proceed at a fairly general level--debating, for example, whether the prevalence of a belief is a marker of its truth--I propose starting from the concrete. Nonbelievers find themselves surrounded every day not just by...

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Reason Leads to Belief in God

hmacdonald — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:42:39 +0000

Dear Heather, I'm looking forward to this conversation. As you know, we have covered some of this ground in earlier talks, but just to bring our new friends up to date, I'd like to offer a bit of information on my background and my perspective on this issue, and why it seems to me that belief in God is not contrary to reason, but, indeed, seems to grow out of it. I was born in the year that Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany, and have never been able to blink away the horrors of the...

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Bio: Heather MacDonald

akornfeld — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:18:22 +0000

Heather Mac Donald is a contributing editor of City Journal and the John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. She also is a recipient of 2005 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement. Ms. Mac Donald is the author of Are Cops...

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Bio: Michael Novak

akornfeld — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:17:36 +0000

Theologian, author, and former U.S. ambassador, Michael Novak currently holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the 1994 recipient of the million-dollar Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.He graduated from Stonehill College (B.A., Philosophy...

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Science cannot judge the Bible

kgiberson — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:03:57 +0000

Karl, We certainly have waded into some deep waters here, Karl, but I do believe our postings have enabled each of us to more fully understand our respective positions. First, I want to clarify one thing in case there might be a misunderstanding: I love science. In fact, AiG employs a number of scientists (and works with others), all of which obtained their doctorates from secular institutions. Across the hall from me, for example, is Dr. David Menton, who earned a PhD in biology from an Ivy...

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