Author: Stephen J. Iacoboni
From Jacques Monod, a Grim Message for Humanity
Biology was becoming a “real” science, melded with chemistry into the new discipline of biochemistry. At last life was reducible to molecular interactions.
A Darwinian Dilemma: The Paradox of Reproduction
Astonishingly, there is one unique organ system that actually detracts from the chances of survival of even the fittest individuals.
“All Things Are Ordered to Their End”
In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle.
To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future
It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him.
How to Overcome Scientism
Descartes is one of the founding fathers of Western science. And the conversion from medieval scholasticism to Cartesian dualism propelled science dramatically.