My discussion about faith, atheism, mental health, evolution and nursing with Robert Shaw
The Unshaw podcast discusses faith, atheism, religiosity and a whole lot more besides. In this episode Robert Shaw (no, not THAT Robert Shaw) and I discuss mental health, faith and deconversion, politics and even evolutionary psychology.
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They tell me that to understand
I need only gaze across the land
In nature’s wonders I will see
Proof of God’s creativity…
Paley’s watch is named after Rev. William Paley, the minister who first used the analogy of finding a watch on the beach as an analogy to prove Biblical creation. Of course it does no such thing but religious conviction tends to limit the ability of even the most intelligent people to consider all the options.
Paley’s watch has morphed into a variety of forms over the years from Mount Rushmore to the 747 in the junkyard. It even underpins several “Look at the trees” type arguments, none of which withstand scrutiny.
Here’s my response to the minister who isn’t just limited in his thinking .. he’s downright deceitful.
He was led to a belief in Christ through his own arrogance.
The Discovery Institute, that bastion of psuedoscientific nonsense has a video clip currently doing the rounds. In it they claim that Dean Kenyan, physicist, biologist and creationist was led to his religious convictions by science. But that’s not true. He was led to a belief in Christ through his own arrogance. Here’s why.
The God free guide 