Author: Michael Egnor
How Is Purpose Related to Teleology in Nature?
Materialist philosopher Joseph Carter denies the existence of teleology in nature, but he is mistaken.
Evolutionary Biologist Now Wants Doctors to Kill Suicidal Depressed People
This is not a slippery slope. This is an ice cliff.
Philosopher in NY Times: The Universe Has No Purpose, But We Can Pretend…
As I noted yesterday, Joseph Carter wrote a fatuous essay in which he denies purpose in the universe and does an amusing dance around the implications that follow.
Does Nature Show Purpose? Reply to a Materialist Philosopher
Aristotelian teleology is, as Joseph Carter points out, manifested by order in nature. More precisely, teleology is consistency: natural processes tend to consistent ends.
Why Does This Evolutionary Biologist Want to Euthanize Handicapped Babies?
Jerry Coyne argues, astonishingly, that the vulnerability of handicapped children justifies killing them.
Atheist Physicist Sean Carroll: An Infinite Number of Universes Is More Plausible Than God
The Many Worlds Interpretation is sort of an extension of the Darwinian creation myth, applied to cosmology.
Is Sean Carroll a Boltzmann Brain?
Carroll, a cosmologist and physicist specializing in general relativity and cosmology at Caltech, is highly regarded by the New Atheist community.
What Is Form?
Materialism is an impoverished perspective on nature, and it creates, rather than solves, problems in metaphysics and science.
Why Aristotle and Aquinas?
Here’s a fair question: Why do I prattle on so much about scholastic philosophy? Of what genuine relevance is it to intelligent design?
Dawkins Gets Expelled
You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.