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When We Break, We’re Broken; but he Broke First, so We’re Blessed!  Genesis 14:18-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; Luke 9:11-17 Life is full of breaking and breakage! I am not talking about broken promises and marriages; I’m not thinking of broken economies and planetary break down; far from it! Rather, I am talking about breaking eggs to make omelet. Indeed, when we relish our omelet at breakfast, that was not the first breaking; when a chick breaks its shell, a new life begins in earnest; it begins in freedom, rather than in the confinement of an egg. Interestingly, this chick, when it hatches out, the roleRead More →

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Thomas Nagel, Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 130p (Kindle version). Thomas Nagel sets himself the task of revealing the limits of a Neo-Darwinian Materialist arguments accounting for the origin of the cosmos. Nagel calls this Neo-Darwinian Materialist argument “reductionism” – the reduction of the cosmos to material argument to the exclusion of “Mind” or “noos” or “consciousness.” The material reductionism of the cosmos is a fundamental mistake, which Nagel holds Neo-Darwinism accountable for. However, following the argumentative principle of moving from the known to the unknown, Nagel started out with aRead More →