Category Archives: Science and Christianity
Why Consciousness Makes Our Heads Hurt
At the Centre for Neural Research at New York University, Joseph LeDoux has carried out impressive research on how traumatic memories are formed, stored, and retrieved in the brain. LeDoux is perhaps best known for his experiments on rats, which were trained to associate certain stimuli, like musical notes, with unpleasant sensations, like electric shocks.
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Tagged argument from consciousness, consciousness, Things Science Can't Explain
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Finding Hell in the Oddest of Places
Hell. It isn’t a doctrine we rush to discuss, and that is a good thing – we ought to fear Hell, and we ought to weigh our words carefully. Without a serious understanding of Hell we risk undermining the doctrine of the cross, the wrath of God, the magnanimity of grace and the import of our forgiveness.This ‘quick thought’, however, is not a précis on the doctrine of Hell, nor is it primarily an apologetic defence of the doctrine of Hell; it is, rather an observation based the defence of a form of eternal punishment found in the secular, scientific community.
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Tagged Christianity and Science, Hades, Hell, Sin
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