Pantheism

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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 [...]

May 20th, 2009 | 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 [...]

May 18th, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | 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 [...]

December 16th, 2007 | 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 [...]

December 13th, 2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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Christian Science and Pantheism

Christian Science and Pantheism
During my surfing hours the other day I came across what to me is a little known organisation called Christian Science which was founded by Mary Baker Eddy towards the end of the 19th century. She wrote an article called Christian Science and Pantheism which was aimed at damning pantheism and promoting [...]

November 25th, 2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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Understanding Spinoza (Part 3): Freedom and Necessity

Understanding Spinoza (part 3): Freedom and Necessity
When understanding Spinoza we discover that the most profound conclusion from his philosophy is to be found in Part I, Proposition XXIX.
‘In the nature of things nothing contingent is admitted, but all things are determined by the necessity of divine nature to exist and act in a certain [...]

November 16th, 2007 | therationalgod | 1 comment | Continued
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Understanding Spinoza (Part 2)

Understanding Spinoza (Part 2)
This post is to develop further towards understanding Spinoza’s metaphysics and to look at the crucial ideas he raises. Spinoza’s main work, The Ethics, in effect introduces a set of definitions and elucidations of each of the fundamental notions of substance, cause, attribute, freedom and necessity, explaining each in terms of the [...]

November 10th, 2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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Understanding Spinoza

Understanding Spinoza
If you are ever going to get more than a brief understanding of pantheism then it is vital to get to grips with understanding Spinoza. Spinoza was not the first pantheist, but he is probably the most influential pantheist since the time of the enlightenment. The decline of theism and the rise of alternative [...]

November 5th, 2007 | therationalgod | 2 comments | Continued
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Define Pantheism

Define Pantheism
Pantheism is one of the oldest belief systems there is which purports to offer an overall view about the nature of the universe. It is a metaphysical scheme that is robust to criticism more than most and a worldview which is often supported by intellectuals and scientists. How we define pantheism can allow for [...]

October 31st, 2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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Verification and Falsification

Verification and Falsification
The process of science is undertaken through two similar but distinct paths; verification and falsification. The two, though different, have more similarities than they have differences. Verification and falsification are based on two strands of knowing something; these are empirical data and rationality.
Empirical knowledge is basically that knowledge which is presented to our [...]

September 27th, 2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued