Science, Religion, Politics and in the pursuit of truth – HappyPsychotic

“Do you believe God is omnipotent and that people
have free will?” he asked.
“That’s standard stuff for God. So, yeah.”
“If God is omnipotent, wouldn’t he know the future?”
“Sure.”
“If God knows what the future holds, then all our choices
are already made, aren’t they? Free will must be an illusion.”
He was clever, but I wasn’t going to fall for that trap.
“God lets us determine the future ourselves, using our free
will,” I explained.
“Then you believe God doesn’t know the future?”

The main premise of the book is that the connections in our brain are constantly changing, and can be strengthened and can be modified to compensate for deficiencies caused by strokes or injuries. One part that particularly jumped out at me is the suggestion that we can create new connections to help us deal with trauma.

I am introducing our newest blogger Barry by talking about opposing world views of a Christian and an Atheist. As regular readers know, I am no longer a full-blown, born again, radical, evangelical Christian, but I will be stating the case of Christianity from this point of view. Barry is an Atheist. We will be talking about our views of Death, Life and then throw a few arguments at each other. I will be letting Barry have the last word in each section. Enjoy.

How far should you and do you question your belief systems?

A discussion format between Glenn and Chris regarding Ray Kurzweil`s definition of a singularity.