Certainty of the Divine

An episode of the Thinking With Somebody Else's Head podcast, hosted by Richard Lloyd Jones, titled "Certainty of the Divine" was published on January 31, 2019 and runs 41 minutes.

January 31, 2019 ·41m · Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

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Summary

I’m Richard Lloyd Jones and this is Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. A belief in immaculate conception, overcoming death with resurrection, divine miracles of creation … modern thinkers complain these tenets suffer from a lack of evidence. “Faith is a great evil,” they say, “That leads gullible human beings to open their minds so much their brains fall out.” I respectfully disagree. Faith has been shown in studies to mitigate symptoms of depression, spiritual beliefs can help us deal with loss, disease and death, and even aid recovery. We also know that it helps deal with addictions. Great things have been accomplished with perseverance in the face of impossible odds, even at the risk of loss of life, and what is that if not an act of faith? So just dismissing conviction in something divine simply because there’s not scientific proof seems unintelligent to me. And anyway, if we just look around us at the intricate design of nature, the complex way natural processes mesh together perfectly, we really have to be slightly moronic to rule out divinity. The Certainty of the Divine, today on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. Click here to listen to this episode.

Episode Description

I’m Richard Lloyd Jones and this is Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. A belief in immaculate conception, overcoming death with resurrection, divine miracles of creation … modern thinkers complain...

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