This is a continuation of a series about metaphors in the Nicene Creed. The third article of the Creed concerns the Holy Spirit, and his role in the Church. (Or if you want to impress people with your vocabulary, it's … Continue reading
This is a continuation of the previous post describing metaphors in the Nicene Creed. Red = metaphor, green = unsure, blue = another comment. The second article of the Creed concerns the Son, affirming his full divinity, his role in … Continue reading
A "fundamentalist" is someone who takes everything in the Bible literally. A "liberal theologian" is one who takes most of it metaphorically. Or so everyone says. The problem with this simplistic dichotomy is that language is fundamentally metaphorical. We seldom … Continue reading
In the last post, I made a list of entities which we Christians believe exist (I'll be referring to numbers from that list in this post, so you might want to pull it up in another tab). However, the composition … Continue reading
My second pillar of Science is elegant hypotheses, that all else being equal we should prefer explanations which are (some combination of) "simple, uniform, common-sensical and aesthetically pleasing". In a Bayesian analysis, this factors into our choice of prior probabilities, … Continue reading
