Oct
7
Limbo Still In Limbo
October 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment
According to the Times of London the Pope remained silent on the issue of getting rid of the old theologoumenon of limbo. I’m of mixed feelings about the whole thing; read my earlier comments on the topic here.
HT: EnglishEclectic.
Oct
7
Darwin on Darwinian Accounts of Religious Belief
October 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment
There is a fine post up at DarwinCatholic discussing some of the issues raised by the materialist hypothesis that religious belief can be explained mechanistically in terms of selection forces. Darwin has articulated a very important point about such theses: they are instances of the genetic fallacy, the mistaken idea that by explaining the origins [...]
