Category Archives: Philosophy

God’s Good Earth – Chapter 9: On Pain and Suffering

Posted on 25/04/2016 by Jon Garvey

Here is a link to chapter 9 of my book.

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God’s Good Earth – Chapter 8: The Non-Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Posted on 21/04/2016 by Jon Garvey

Here  is a link to chapter 8 of my book, and an apology.

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On God’s uniqueness

Posted on 19/04/2016 by Jon Garvey

I’ve been trying to keep The Hump’s recent blog posts focused on the drip-feed of my book God’s Good Earth in twice weekly chapters – even that is a lot of reading for busy people, and I want to present my case in an orderly manner rather than firing off posts on all kinds of subjects in between.

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God’s Good Earth – Chapter 6: Tracking the Fall of Creation

Posted on 14/04/2016 by Jon Garvey

Here is a link to chapter 6 of my book.

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Monotheism and automata

Posted on 13/03/2016 by Jon Garvey

In my last post I suggested that failure to deal adequately with the implications of monotheism itself leads directly to many erroneous ideas in both theology as such and in understanding the relationship of God to creation, including evolution.

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A metaphor for an abstraction

Posted on 26/02/2016 by Jon Garvey

Mike Flynn (aka The O’Floinn) links to a short piece from last year by James Chastek pointing out how even Richard Dawkins, championing materialism in the “selfish gene” concept, cannot avoid the hated idea of final causation. Food for thought, indeed.

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God would not violate his own laws

Posted on 04/02/2016 by Jon Garvey

It is still a remarkably common objection to miracles, or to other than excessively-rare miracles, that God would not violate the laws of nature that he himself commanded. Not uncommonly, to allow for miracles arguments are made that show that God need not actually break the laws to do them.

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A short history of air

Posted on 16/01/2016 by Jon Garvey

Another BioLogos thread on the relationship of Genesis 1 to “modern science” got me thinking more about the phenomenology of that, and other ANE accounts like Enuma Elish. By this I mean to bypass, for now, the (more important) questions of “meaning” and “genre”, simply to try and get a better picture of what kind of world the ancients saw when they looked out of the window. It becomes quite interesting.

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On the resurrection…

Posted on 14/01/2016 by Jon Garvey

… and on a good number of other matters too, from Creation to Scriptural Inspiration…

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The rate- (or purpose-) limiting step of Creation

Posted on 07/01/2016 by Jon Garvey

I was struck by a succinct observation by poster StephenB on an Uncommon Descent thread about theistic evolution: For guided evolution, the design precedes the process. For Darwinian evolution, the process precedes the design (appearance of).

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