Tag: Blaise Pascal

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Michael Aeschliman

Date
October 16, 2019

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__edited, B. F. Skinner, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, Charles Dickens, Dante Alighieri, Enlightenment rationalism, epiphenomenalism, François Rabelais, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, G.K. Chesterton, Gulliver’s Travels, John Henry Newman, Jonathan Swift, Michael Polanyi, physicalism, Pierre Duhem, Samuel Johnson, Scientism, Stanley L. Jaki, Thomas Carlyle, William Shakespeare}

Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism

_{Michael Aeschliman

October 16, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid concludes his two-part conversations with Michael Aeschliman, author of the newly revised and expanded The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism. Here Aeschliman places Lewis among a strong line of thinkers critiquing scientism, including the philosopher/mathematician Blaise Pascal, who showed that scientific knowledge on its own could never be sufficient for being fully human; the theologian and physicist Stanley L. Jaki, who brilliantly integrated science and theology; and the great English author Jonathan Swift, whose satirical work skewered the illusions of scientific reductionism.

New Book Unbelievable: No Bill Nye, a Big Cosmos Isn’t a Problem for Religion

_{Michael Newton Keas

January 16, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future host Andrew McDiarmid continues his series with science historian Michael Keas about Mike’s new work from ISI Books, Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion. Here they focus on the myth that a vast cosmos renders humanity insignificant, and in the process, discredits the Judeo-Christian worldview. As Keas notes, science popularizer Bill Nye recently dusted off this old saw, but the Old Testament itself, in the Psalms, depicts man and the earth as tiny in compared to a vast universe. Keas also discusses C.S. Lewis’s take on the matter. Lewis pointed out that atheists have argued that a universe where earth is the lone habitable planet argues against God. And they have argued that a universe filled with many habitable planets argues against God. Heads the atheists win; tails the theists lose. As Lewis and Keas suggest, we are rightly skeptical of such rigged games. Listen in to learn more about this complex and fascinating issue touching on philosophy, theology, and the history of science. Please consider donating to support the IDTF Podcast.