Series: More Unfashionable Observations

In today’s More Unfashionable Observations I want to take a moment to discuss how it is that all perception, including scientific reasoning, is done with an implicit morality. Earlier we touched on the play circuit in mammals and how it regulates fair play in rats as was discovered by Jaak Pankseep. For the rat, playing…

In this week’s installment of Analogismoi we discussed the postmodern, neomarxist concept of power as an overarching meta-narrative. Behind the question of whether or not power is the meta-narrative and the oppressor-oppressed dynamic is the ultimate arbiter of truth is the question of what we mean when we say truth.   The most difficult thing…

Today, as we continue to flesh out our introduction to the Bible, I want to continue with our understanding of the differences between the modern epistemic framework versus the one of the ancients. The difference is important and far too infrequently understood. To this end I want to begin by discussing the problem of creationism….

In this final post before we take up the task of walking through the stories of Genesis I want to talk about frames of reference as well as make some disclaimers. After all, to paraphrase Marcus Brody, we are meddling with powers we cannot possibly comprehend. Despicable people like philosopher John Gray and eco-fascist David…

Ernest Becker, in his groundbreaking 1973 book The Denial of Death, famously says that “man is a god that shits.” Becker’s way of expressing this might be off-putting to some, but I think he really hits a home run here. We are not apes and we are not angels, but there is some kind of bridge…

As we move to Genesis 2 and get closer to the first lines of the Adam and Eve story, there is a quick end to the creation of Genesis 1. After extracting habitable order from chaos using the articulated word, God sets to the task of creating the world as we know it. He does…

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own…