Dr Paul Allen

Coat of arms of the University of Oxford Location : seen outside Rewley House of Kellogg College, Oxford (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Is God dead? Not in academia. As someone who teaches philosophy at Wycliffe Hall , University of Oxford , Vince Vitale is well placed to know what the top scholarship says about God .  Vince shows how in the fields of philosophy and sociology, God is very much alive. If you think intellectual objections undermine belief in God , Vince suggests that you may be unaware of the arguments at the highest level. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWjR8C8bKhQ Related articles God Is Alive in Academia (str.typepad.com) SN Balagangadhara and Rajiv Malhotra on Reversing the Gaze (samirchopra.com) Praxeology and the Purpose of Political Economy: Illustration from Ben Powell (coordinationproblem.org) 10.03.2014 (agreementsanddisagreements.wordpress.com) The Morning Star Of The Reformation- John Wycliffe (nicolalyonehu.wordpress.com) The Unexpecte

Imagine being tied to an anchor and cast into the sea. According to legend, that was the fate that befell Clement of Rome under the emperor Domitian . This is probably incorrect, however, since Domitian died before the turn of the first century and church historian Eusebius of Caesarea tells us Clement was martyred on this day, November 23, 101, which would put his death in the reign of Trajan. Clement was only the fourth bishop of Rome, the first possibly being Peter. Did he know Peter and Paul? It is completely possible that those two Spirit-filled men taught him. Clement even wrote a letter to the Corinthian church that echoed the teachings of the apostles. We know next to nothing about the two bishops between Peter and Clement. But Clement's letter made him stand out among the early leaders of the Roman church. The Roman church claims that Clement's letter proves that the popes (although they weren't called by that name for many centuries to come) were already seen

One of the most common ways of looking at the relationship between science and faith is the conflict thesis, which posits an inherent conflict between science and religion. The conflict thesis was popularized in the nineteenth century by John William Draper and by Andrew Dickson White . Despite the acknowledged poor scholarship underlying these works, the conflict thesis has persisted among both believers and unbelievers. Today, some scientists, including Peter Atkins , Daniel Dennett , and Richard Dawkins , are asserting that there should no longer be any conflict because science has shown us either that God does not exist or that God almost certainly does not exist. Not all scientists adhere to the conflict thesis. There are believing scientists such as Francis Collins and John Polkinghorne who argue that science and faith are complementary. Others, such as the atheist Steven Jay Gould , argue that science and faith may coexist because they deal with completely separate subject m