More on Scientific Realism

There's been a post over at crev.info on scientific realism.

I did a post debunking scientific realism a while back, here.

Answering a Question

I was reading tonight and a novel idea dawned on me: check my S&S e-mail (it's located on my profile BTW). Well, I had a lot of spam but 1 actual e-mail question (that has been sitting there for 3 months!...oops):

:::QUOTE:::

You state the following:

"Augustine’s View of Original Sin: Augustine’s view of Original Sin, namely that the guilt of the first sin of Adam was transmitted to his offspring, was for the most part limited to the West. To this day, most Eastern Orthodox believe that Adam’s sin added death and corruption to human nature, not the guilt of the sin as well."

Now, isn't this the biblical and reformed view of original sin? I mean, don't we believe that the guilt is also transmitted to adam's offspring?
God bless,
Mario

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Yes, Mario. I believe that you misunderstood what I said.

The Reformed affirm that Adam passed on not only the death and corruption of our nature but also the legal guilt.

The Eastern Orthodox Church believes that Adam passed on only the death and corruption of our nature but NOT the legal guilt.

More Secular Superstitions

This is another confirmation that the secularist is more likely to be superstitious than the Theist.

Let us not also forget that Richard Dawkins believes in space aliens.

Then, I guess that he makes a great spokesman for the atheist community.

Sinner's Prayer Evangelism

The Inconsistency of Islamic Apologetics

Francis Beckwith's Conversion Book

Steve Hays reviews Beckwith's conversion story book, and shocker of all shockers...it recycles all the bad old arguments that have been refuted since the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Divided "Infallible" Councils

Steve Hays has hit the history books (again) on the debates that went on within the chambers of the last few Roman Catholic ecumenical councils.