Showing posts with label explanatory power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label explanatory power. Show all posts

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Quote of the Day: With the hypothetical approach, God is the starting point.”

“With the philosophical approach, God is the endpoint of our deliberations. With the hypothetical approach, he is the starting point.” --  Edgar Andrews, Who Made God? Searching for a Theory of Everything.  


Christianity has great explanatory scope and power. It arguably explains the "facts of life" and human experience better than any competing world-view. It is also deeply satisfying.


Andrew's book is reviewed here at Apologetics315:
Andrews proceeds to test the God hypothesis as it compares to an atheistic hypothesis when it comes to cosmic origins, the origin of the laws of science, the moral law, and the origin of first life, and living organisms. He notes the limits of science to explain everything: “The claim that, given time, science will explain everything is simply the atheist’s version of the God of the gaps.”(96) Andrews also explores the issues of design found in DNA and the cell.

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"... nothing intellectually compelling or challenging.. bald assertions coupled to superstition... woefully pathetic"