Tag: Aristotle
The Biggest Myth So Far in Cosmos 3.0 — Baruch Spinoza as Science Hero
Scholarship on Spinoza in the last decade has increasingly recognized that he opposed the observational (empirical) and mathematical analyses of nature.
Can Science Answer All the “Big” Questions?
Peter Atkins is right that science can answer the biggest question we can ask. His problem is that he doesn’t like the answer science provides.
Astrophysicist Asks: Did God Create the Universe?
Natural theology is the science of God’s existence, and it’s a massive trove of evidence and reason of the first order.
Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Proof from Specification
What’s remarkable in nature is not so much that nature follows complex patterns, but that it follows any pattern at all.
Aquinas’ Fourth Way: Light in a Mirror
It’s helpful, as with his Third Way, to begin with a metaphor, in order to get an intuitive feel for the proof.