Author: Michael Egnor
Introducing Aquinas’ Five Ways
In my ongoing debate with biologist Jerry Coyne, frequent reference is made to Aquinas’ Five Ways, particularly to his Prime Mover argument.
Evolution Has Not Been Kind to Jerry Coyne
The design we infer in nature is an insight we abstract from our senses, but the inference itself is acquired by our reason.
Jerry Coyne on Our “Divinity Sense Organs”
Sir David Attenborough, an agnostic, invokes a rather nice metaphor about a termite mound.
Apocalypse Now — More Things Scientists Would Like You to Forget
We must never confuse scientific consensus with science. Science is inquiry. Consensus is cloture of inquiry.
Jeffrey Epstein and the Silence of the Scientists
It is, I believe, a revelation about our scientific culture and particularly about the trust we should place in a “science consensus” that should shake us to our bones.