Do you believe in God?  Is it because your brain or genes tells you to?  Is it natural to do so?  Did it serve an important part in our evolution as a species?  Do we need to evolve past it?  Is religious belief a by-product of the structures of our brain?  Would it bother you [...]

Here’s my attempt to stream this conversation.  It should go live right before 2pm on the West Coast.

Here’s Clayton’s Pre-Debate Post \ John gives a super recap \ Philip’s post-debate reflection \ Bob Rhodes reflects on the conversation \ newspaper writeup

Can Daniel Dennett be a public philosopher and engage in a real debate with someone who is both  a philosopher and theist?  Or, will he once again choose to display his rasslin’ rhetorical skills and pass on demonstrating the Apocalyptic fury his intellectual insights are reported to bring?  We will see.
One could call it [...]

I recently gave a book review for the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology, 27.2 (Fall 2009). The book I reviewed is called The Open secret: A New Vision for Natural Theology by Alister E. McGrath. For any of you interested in the relationship between the naturalism, natural theology, and the Christian faith, the [...]

Here’s a fun video of Philip Clayton talking with Spencer Burke about emergence, science, and the future of the church. If you watch it and think man that was serious camera work, then you will have to think Spencer’s editor because I am not a steady hand award nominee.
If you haven’t checked out Spencer’s show [...]

John Polkinghorne, the Cambridge physicist turned Anglican Priest, has a new book that just came out titled “Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions About God, Science, and Belief.” It is based on a Polkinghorne’s Question and Answer forum online, so you can check it out there if you are interested.
In a review posted [...]

John Cobb was the first to publish a book by a philosopher on environmental ethics.  Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology came out in 1972 and was revised in 1995, but remains today as pertinent as ever.  Dr. Cobb made a special guest appearance in my Eco-Philosophy class this past week on Earth [...]

This was awesome. Ryan Parker already uploaded one of the Transforming Theology highlights. Friday night we had a Theo-Pub with some of the participating theologians, emergent locals, graduate students, and those fishing for a drink. Here is the conversation Philip and Tony have been waiting to have.  Ohhh it is really worth watching.  [...]

Phyllis Tickle pointed out that ‘Emergence‘ is not simply something going on in the church, but in fact it is taking place everywhere. Emergence, as a concept, first emerged in science and today it has the largest consensus among the scientific community (contra: neo-darwinism, Dawkins…). Philip Clayton, a philosopher of science and Christian [...]

Either from the history channel or the movie I am sure you are familiar with the tragedy of the titanic.  The sinking of the unsinkable ship and the human denial and\or preserved ignorance that exacerbated the tragedy by rejecting the possibility of the ship sinking in both preparation (not enough life rafts) and during the [...]