Author: John MacDonald Smith

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Designed? Or Evolved? Or Both?

John MacDonald Smith looks at ongoing attempts to defend ‘creationism’ in the USA under the name of ‘intelligent design’. I’m writing this during the quincentenary of my old college, Christ’s Cambridge. More importantly, it is...

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Does Cosmic Order Imply an Orderer?

Long Odds on an Ordered Cosmos Some years ago I was asked by a colleague, a teacher of students for the ministry, what I thought of the Anthropic argument for God. As it happened, this...

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The Evolution of God

THE EVOLUTION OF GOD John MacDonald Smith I want to qualify the SoF assertion that religion is a human creation, and suggest that it is as evolution-driven as our brains or lungs. My argument comes...

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Sea of Inter-Faith

SEA OF INTER-FAITH John MacDonald Smith *‘When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law’’, said Sydney Smith, ‘‘I am convinced that he is an unalterable fool’’. It is becoming increasingly painful to observe...

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The Reconstruction of Religion

SOF Magazine 10, Summer 1992 THE RECONSTRUCTION OF RELIGION John MacDonald Smith Sydney Smith once said something about believers in unalterable law being unalterable fools, in a quip which also applies to doctrine. The alterable...

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Updating God

WINTER 1991 PAGE 13 SEA OF FAITH MAGAZINE UPDATING GOD by John MacDonald Smith Plato’s vision of this world as an cave in which we only see shadows of enduring realities beyond continues, long past...

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Questioning Postmodern Theology (1): Wheels Rotate

A beliefless, but creative, Spirit-christianity. 14 SOF Magazine 7, Autumn 1991 QUESTIONING POSTMODERN THEOLOGY (1) WHEELS ROTATE John MacDonald Smith I once had a friend who sold antiquarian books in rather a narrowly defined field...

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