Never underestimate the power of our preconceived beliefs about what we think must be true. We may claim to be objective and diligently seeking to go wherever the evidence leads, but are we even aware of our presuppositional biases? From what foundation are we really building off of? What beliefs precede our examination of the... Continue Reading →
Human consciousness remains a contentious subject between science and philosophy. The distinction between the easy problem, which addresses the brain's activities, and the hard problem, which explores how physical stimuli give rise to subjective experiences, highlights the limitations of materialist explanations. These gaps call for deeper investigation beyond material science.
In C.S. Lewis's novel, Til We Have Faces, he states that, “No herd of other beasts, gathered together, has so ugly a voice as Man.” Recently, I read through quite a bit of African American literature depicting the raw horrors surrounding so much of their history with this nation. Torture. Abuse. Rape. Murder. Genocide. Slave... Continue Reading →
Abstract: This essay will briefly examine the nature of morality from within a strictly naturalistic or materialistic perspective. It will argue that within such a framework morality itself cannot establish a reason for one’s adherence to it. Why should human beings be moral? That seems like a simple question. I mean, who doesn’t want to... Continue Reading →
René Descartes was a famous philosopher who coined the classic phrase, “I think, therefore I am.” When Descartes came up with that idea, he believed that he had dumped all of his knowledge and was essentially starting from scratch to determine what man could truly know based on his reason alone. The only way to... Continue Reading →