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"Metaphysics" tries to answer the question: What is necessarily "behind" our world of phenomena, the world of the physical sciences, in order for that phenomenal world to make rational sense?
By the very act of living rationally in the world of sense-data, do we have to presuppose some things that are not themselves physical or sensory, and therefore not able to be studied by the methods of the natural sciences?
The clear answer, contrary to almost all of contemporary secularized science, is that, yes, indeed, we have a host of such presuppositions.
This library will contain articles and other resources dealing with that question, along with epistemology, the question which Christians failed to address for the last two centuries, leading to the collapse of Western Christendom, and its marginalization to the sidelines, watching while others took over leadership of our culture, our education, our politics, and our entertainment. For starters.
Things do not need to stay that way, and the Christian community is poised, I believe, on the cusp of a powerful intellectual and spiritual renewal. Spiritual renewal is already happening in the "third world". Western Christians are lagging far, far behind because we have lost our intellectual credibility. But that is changing.
Metaphysics is closely related to the "worldview" issue. Along with epistemology, metaphysics supplies the foundation upon which any worldview can be built. (See the Worldview Library.)
See Personality, Empiricism, and God, finished at Oxford in 1964, waiting, lo these many years, to get published. Hopefully sometime early in 2008. (See schedule of events planned.)
For Evolution/Creation issues, see Science Library
** What is "Science"??? a short essay by E. Fox
** A Brief History of Religion vs. Science -- on the Science Page E. Fox
** What is Philosophy? E. Fox
**Total Truth -- by Nancy Pearcey - a review by Earle Fox -
** Evolution vs. God -- E. Fox response to the San Diego Union-Tribune article on Evolution vs. Intelligent Design. See Intelligent Design library for other articles. This is a winnable battle.
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Anthony Flew, world-class philosophical atheist, becomes deist -- an interview with Gary Habermas.
George Gilder, Metaphsic -- John Derbyshire -- on evolution. A good article. At least someone out there is thinking of metaphysics.
World in Process -- Book review on Process Theology -- commentary by E. Fox
The Dawkins
Confusion -- In Christianity Today, Alvin Plantinga
takes on Richard Dawkins -- two well-known and very capable
philosopher/scientists types who disagree completely on the "God" question.
This is an super assessment of Dawkins'
passion against God, and of some issues involved in the Intelligent Design vs.
Evolution debate.
I am in the midst of revising my
doctoral thesis at Oxford granted 43 years ago, on the relation between science
& theology, in which I show (I think) that science, as a logical fact, could not
have arisen in any but a Biblical culture.
Personality, Empiricism, & God is
relevant to all the contention between Evolution and Intelligent Design, and
will, I think, help clarify many of the metaphysical
issues. E. Fox
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