Francis Collins Personal story [7] - Encountering Jesus

[ClamCrunchy]

The radical altruism arguement can be explained by a firing of mirror neurons in the brain, I think. Mirror neurons are of course what allow us to experience what others experience (e.g., when we see a person in pain, we may feel some emiotnal pain ourselves), and go a long way in explaining how we form a theory of mind. An intense firing by mirror neurons could probably explain radical alutruism.

[naybobdenod]

IF god exists,enough said

[thetestoffaith]

try these, I reckon the first two are the best scholarship of the subject at the moment, but others might add more ideas. The last is a classic, and quite an easy read:

long - The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins & the Question of God)

by N.T. Wright

quite long - Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony

by Richard Bauckham

short - Who Moved the Stone?

by Frank Morison

[Kimbahley]

Thanks for posting this. I've always wondered how Francis Collins could be religious. While nothing he's saying is logical, I try to understand other people's trains of thought. I can't believe he just said there was evidence for a literal resurrection. Does anybody have any book suggestions that detail this evidence?

[Chiangmai007]

William Lane Craig has also written extensively on the resurrection. For wonderful Q & A on a wide range of subjects you might find interesting perspectives in Questions of Truth by Cambridge theoretical physicist John Polkinghorne (and Nicholas Beale)