Re: cruzan v schiavo what a difference a decade makes

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:37:30 -0500 "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
writes:
> >
> > I will read some Polkinghorne as Wayne suggested, but would be
> interested
> > on others thoughts about this too.
>
> Though I don't endorse all the views expressed in it I think that
> the
> collection of essays edited by Warren S. Brown, Nancey Murphy and H.
> Newton
> Maloney, _Whatever Happened to the Soul: Scientific and Theological
>
> Portraits of Human Nature_ (Fortress, 1998) is helpful.
>
> Shalom
> George
>
Brown, Murphy and Maloney is probably the best treatment of the notion
that the soul or spirit is a function of brain, no more. It has been
adopted by neurologists generally, as evidenced by the presentations at
last year's ASA meeting at Trinity Western University. I am of the
opinion that this conclusion springs from the inability of science to
deal with anything immaterial, whether God, angel, soul, spirit, Satan or
demon. A number of individuals have said that the trio, and especially
Murphy, avoid any scripture that conflicts with their view. However, I
have been told that a professor at Asbury has remedied this lack. I
published a paper challenging this view in /Philosophia Christi/
(Evangelical Philosophical Society), vol. 4, no. 2 (2002), and read a
paper at Trinity which I think will be published (with improvements
suggested by George) in the June /Perspectives/. I cannot see that being
remembered by God, which Polkinghorne suggests, is equivalent to the
immortality of the soul.
Dave
Received on Sat Mar 19 16:36:38 2005