Perception, Naive Realism, and Our Inability to See Reality For What It Is
Do you believe that we are naive realists? Our perception is like a tunnel through which we see reality with peripheries that do not allow all stimuli to enter. Though we are limited in perception, our stubbornness and argumentativeness makes it seem that we like to think we know it all, making us naive realists at heart. What does psychology and neuroscience have to say about all of this?
Does the Placebo Effect Explain Miraculous Healings?
Should we always assume that the placebo effect heals us instead of God? Is the naturalistic explanation always the best explanation? What should we think about miracles that are not explained by the placebo effect?
Are Consciousness and the Soul Found in Split Brain Experiments?
This article discusses Michael Engor, who is a practicing neurosurgeon, a professor of neurology at Stony Brook University, and an Intelligent Design advocate. This article discusses Engor’s interpretations of the soul in the Nobel Prize-winning split-brain research of Roger Sperry from the 1960’s.
Are God and Consciousness Moving Us Beyond Materialism?
Some great thinkers in the fields of neuroscience and psychiatry have expressed that we need to move beyond materialism. Some of them are Roger Sperry, Iain McGilchrist, and Sharon Dirckx. You can read about them here.
Do Miracles Truly Happen?
Are miracles false, exaggerated, and misperceived events? Or do they truly happen? This takes a look at Lee Strobel’s book The Case For Miracles.
How Psychology and the Bible Agree on Dealing With Unsafe People
Dealing with unsafe people? What will the Bible and the science of psychology say together?
Emotional Attachment Style From God and Your Parents
Your emotional attachments to your parents and how they treated you during childhood has influenced your perception of God in your adulthood.
A Young, Developing Brain That Cannot Process God
Did you struggle to make sense of God when you were a child? Did you feel scared out of your mind? Maybe it is because young mind’s cannot process something so scary, like an all-powerful God.
Satan and Misogyny You Love To Hate—The Hate Gives You Purpose
Does hatred give us a sense of purpose and significance? Does it help to hate collective and abstract entities instead of concrete individuals? Perhaps our love for hating Satan would say ‘yes.’
A Man’s True Sexual Nature
What is the true nature of a man’s sex drive? The Bible says we could destroy ourselves for pleasing our sinful nature. Is that true?
Sex and Humanism: Good Sex Without God!
How should our sexual thoughts define us in a world where humanism states we are “innately good” but Christianity states we are innately evil?
Sexual Purity Confused Me As a Male
So, sexual thoughts make you feel evil and their absence makes you feel the opposite of evil? It is not that simple or black-and-white.
Sexual Thoughts Do Not Equal Sexual Actions!
Contrary to Christian purity culture, sexual thoughts are not as wrong or evil as sexual actions.
False Beliefs About What God Loves and Hates
What happens when we assume that God loves whatever we love and hates whatever we hate? That is a form of projection.
No Brain Parts For Seeing and Hearing? No Afterlife!
How can we see and hear the afterlife if we do not have the faculties of sight and sound while we are there?
The Lie That Life Gets Easier With God’s Help
Life did not get better when I prayed nor when I asked God for help. Leaning on my own understanding was one of my best self-discoveries in adulthood.
You Are NOT a Soul. You Are Your Metabolism.
Why is your soul responsible for your energy when science knows that metabolism is responsible for your energy? Learn about the physical reality of enzymes and biochemical reactions.
God Does Not Make Your Body’s Energy. Glycolysis Does.
How does the body make energy? What is metabolism and glycolysis? How did glycolysis evolve?
Intuition Does NOT Confirm Intelligent Design
This is a critical review on Douglas Axe’s book called Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed. This review opposes Intelligent Design.