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Resources (articles, quotations and notes) on faith, science and reason using TiddlyWiki

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I've  set up a web notebook on faith, science and reason.   I also call it Asymptotes . I collected some articles (personal and otherwise), quotations and notes on the topics mentioned above.  It's a continuous project. I intend to continue adding items as I progress in my readings. I used TiddlyWiki , an amazing tool that allows one to keep notes, organize them through tags, and retrieve them by searching- and all of that done by editing just one file! It's pretty amazing.   I'm in the process of developing a TiddlyWiki flavor customized for basic note-taking. I hope to be able to share it soon. Here's the link to my web notebook . Here's the link to TiddlyWiki's homepage .

Reason for our Faith: Excellent Resources on the Rational Basis of Christian Belief from Peter Kreeft

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I highly recommend  the official site of Peter Kreeft .   The site contains excellent resources for knowing the rational basis of Christian belief.    Dr.Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College. He is perhaps one of the best Christian apologists (one who defends Christianity against intellectual objections) of our time.  The site contains free downloadable  lectures in written and audio formats. I've listened to some lectures and I find them engaging,  enlightening, and entertaining   (My favorite quote so far: "If there was a Big Bang, there must be a Big Banger!").   Here is the listing of Peter Kreeft audio lectures . Kreeft is also a prolific writer.    I recommend the following books:  Handbook of Christian Apologetics — Hundreds of answers to life's most crucial questions Your Questions, God's Answers  — Solid responses for Catholic teens I've read some sections of the former; I haven't read yet the latter, but it&