Category: Physics, Earth & Space
Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”
Aristotle noted that when we think carefully about natural causes we see that there are four distinct ways that causes can lead to effects in nature.
The Other Intelligent Designer(s)?
Who thought of a clotting cascade just in case there’s bleeding? Who thought of an antibody system?
How the Earth Operates Supply Chains for Life
It’s no help having essential elements in the Earth’s crust if they can’t get to the organisms that need them.
Meyer, Craig, Turek: Examining the Kalam Cosmological Argument
Kalam is a reference to ideas in medieval Islamic philosophy that William Lane Craig singlehandedly did much to revive.
Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy
Kepler rejected the idea that the enormous scale of the cosmos suggested that mankind is less important than in the cozier Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model.