And he marvelled because of their unbelief.
Mark 6:6
"A materialist picture of reality is riddled with vulnerabilities.
Here are three things materialists must have.
Successful reproductive cloning.
Writing over at Mind Matters, neuroscientist Michael Egnor has issued a gutsy challenge. See “Show Me the Human Clones.” The challenge is this: “If man is matter, and nothing more, man can be copied. If not, he can’t.”
Materialists need reproductive cloning. And it must be successful in the sense that Michael Egnor defines it, including uniquely human attributes such as the “abstract immaterial ability to use language, to reason, to abstract general concepts from particular things, to use logic,” and more.
Dr. Egnor is powerfully frank: “If man can be copied by a wholly material process, I need to rethink things. If he cannot be, materialists need to rethink things.”
Extraterrestrial life.
That’s not the only thing materialists need. In much the same way, the ongoing silence from the rest of the universe troubles them. If life generating itself is the predictable result, given a suitable planet, of mindless natural processes, then the cosmos should be abundant in life, including intelligent life. Carl Sagan assured us it is. Materialists need extraterrestrial life. That is why, undeterred by the lack of all evidence, they talk so much about it.
A multiverse.
They need a multiverse for related reasons: to explain away the fact of astonishing cosmic fine-tuning. Again, this is why you hear so much about the multiverse, despite the impossibility of there ever being detectable evidence for it."
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Mark 6:6
"A materialist picture of reality is riddled with vulnerabilities.
Here are three things materialists must have.
Successful reproductive cloning.
Writing over at Mind Matters, neuroscientist Michael Egnor has issued a gutsy challenge. See “Show Me the Human Clones.” The challenge is this: “If man is matter, and nothing more, man can be copied. If not, he can’t.”
Materialists need reproductive cloning. And it must be successful in the sense that Michael Egnor defines it, including uniquely human attributes such as the “abstract immaterial ability to use language, to reason, to abstract general concepts from particular things, to use logic,” and more.
Dr. Egnor is powerfully frank: “If man can be copied by a wholly material process, I need to rethink things. If he cannot be, materialists need to rethink things.”
Extraterrestrial life.
That’s not the only thing materialists need. In much the same way, the ongoing silence from the rest of the universe troubles them. If life generating itself is the predictable result, given a suitable planet, of mindless natural processes, then the cosmos should be abundant in life, including intelligent life. Carl Sagan assured us it is. Materialists need extraterrestrial life. That is why, undeterred by the lack of all evidence, they talk so much about it.
A multiverse.
They need a multiverse for related reasons: to explain away the fact of astonishing cosmic fine-tuning. Again, this is why you hear so much about the multiverse, despite the impossibility of there ever being detectable evidence for it."
EN&V