I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Evidence for faith?
January 9, 2008
I’m mostly posting this because atheist commentator Robert evidently had a bad Christmas, and in a debate we were having was rather more vitriolic than I am used to from him (normally he’s a reasonable sort). He stated, rather bluntly, that my faith “has no basis in reality”.
While I would personally disagree, and have, I might also have to pick up the new book by Antony Flew: There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, and see just what other evidences a man who was once such a powerful voice for atheism has accepted that have changed his view.
In one of the biggest religion news stories of the new millennium, the Associated Press announced that Professor Antony Flew, the world’s leading atheist, now believes in God.
Flew is a pioneer for modern atheism. His famous paper, Theology and Falsification, was first presented at a meeting of the Oxford Socratic Club chaired by C. S. Lewis and went on to become the most widely reprinted philosophical publication of the last five decades. Flew earned his fame by arguing that one should presuppose atheism until evidence of a God surfaces. He now believes that such evidence exists, and chronicles his journey from staunch atheism to believer.
For the first time, this book will present a detailed and fascinating account of Flew’s riveting decision to revoke his previous beliefs and argue for the existence of God. Ever since Flew’s announcement, there has been great debate among atheists and believers alike about what exactly this “conversion” means. There Is a God will finally put this debate to rest.
This is a story of a brilliant mind and reasoned thinker, and where his lifelong intellectual pursuit eventually led him: belief in God as designer.
While I worry that this book might stray too far into ID territory, I’d be interested to give it a read; I, for one, would like to know what evidence tipped Flew’s view from militant, evangelical atheism over to ardent, vocal theism. I know what evidence keeps me convinced and within the Catholic fold, but I also realize I’ve probably not seen all that God has done in this Universe to make Himself revealed.
