Dear Mac, thinking more about this, I thought you or someone you know with an interest in philosophy might be interested to consider a question I posed to the Biologos forum over 3 years ago:
It is totally fascinating to me how an uncaused cause relates to conscious intention (to cause an action without being acted upon) and how this action of thought may or may not be located outside the body in the quantum realm.
At this stage of scientific discovery, there seems to be a remarkable parallel to solipsism. The further you go, the more subjective it becomes. Many years ago as a philosophy undergrad, I found the rational possibility of solipsism to be a very strong evidence that we are living in a fallen world.
And I never would have given it a moments thought, if I had not thought I could know God through a philosophical argument after my belief in Jesus was severely trashed by a Jesus mythicist.
Eventually the “therefore know for certain” and the 3 types of evidence that support it from Acts 2:14-36 were super helpful in settling some of those doubts for me.
I’m always interested in talking about this stuff, and would like to continue the conversation with someone from RTB. Hugh Ross was one of my main guys after I read the Genesis Question as a new believer 25 years ago.
Best Regards,
Mike