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Book Published

The release date for The Rational God was 11th November 2008. To order you just need to follow the link.
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admin | October 17th, 2008 | Continued

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About this Site

The Rational God is dedicated to investigating the ultimate questions of existence. Such questions can be approached through science but even a scientific investigation requires contextualizing. Whatever science discovers is seldom final, a deeper explanation is usually needed. This is where philosophical analysis can help.
The title is two words. Rational and God. I have no [...]

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Fate and Final Causes

Science is often characterized as a study of cause and effect. Prior to science Aristotelian causes was the method of study, one of his four causes being the ‘final cause.’ A final cause reversed the process of cause and effect, making the effect the reason for the cause rather than the principle which modern science [...]

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Richard Dawkins

No blog or discussion on the nature of God or the intersection of science and religion would be complete without reference to Richard Dawkins. He is a great source of interesting posts and someone I shall be returning to frequently. He has become something of a high priest to atheists and with that in mind [...]

20May2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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What is The Rational God?

The Rational God is a science based approach to understanding nature or reality. Attempts at understanding our universe have been presented since man first made an appearance and in some ways the history of man’s attempts at understanding the world are as interesting as the vision of an ultimate reality.
We see two apparently different [...]

18May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Hello Again World

Welcome to the new home of TheRationalGod. I have recently moved server and transferred all the posts from the previous wordpress blog. Soon I shall be blogging away again but just need to keep you informed about the new format for the blogging which is going to help you discover the ultimate secrets of the [...]

7Jun2008 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Materialism and Physicalism

Materialism and Physicalism

The heyday of materialism was the 19th century, when it seemed to be clear that in time the universe and everything in it would be explained by one thing, the material. Materialism was the world view that the only truly existing entity was matter. All other things (particularly thinking) could be [...]

20Dec2007 | therationalgod | 1 comment | Continued
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Materialism Philosophy

Materialism Philosophy

Materialism philosophy comes in too different brands. There is metaphysical materialism which is concerned with the nature of things that exist. There is also political materialism which is concerned with human behaviour and social organisation. This article is concerned only with the former type of philosophical materialism.
In recent decades there has been [...]

16Dec2007 | therationalgod | 2 comments | Continued
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Materialism and Monism

Materialism and Monism

From a purely rational perspective it seems that we are forced to accept that there is only one thing that exists in the universe. What it is we should consider that thing to be is a very difficult problem to present a conclusion to. Materialism and monism are presented together as the [...]

13Dec2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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Materialism Definition

Materialism Definition

The modern scientific notion of materialism was founded in the ideas of Descartes in the early years of the seventeenth century. Any discussion of philosophical materialism usually has Descartes materialism definition in mind. To recap, Descartes was distinguishing between two types of things which he assumed exists; mind and matter. Descartes concept of [...]

13Dec2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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A Definition of Monism

A Definition of Monism
Metaphysical monism is an ancient problem which still continues to this day, at least for some. A definition of monism can be framed quite succinctly; monism states that there is just one kind of thing that exists in the universe, everything is thus reducible to this one thing.
The earliest form of this [...]

8Dec2007 | therationalgod | 2 comments | Continued
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