Tag: Aristotle
Revealing God’s Grandeur — Intelligent Design, Evolution, and the Teachings of the Catholic Church
The last few chapters deal with subjects that theistic evolutionists like to use against ID: Aristotle, Aquinas, and randomness.
Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory
Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own.
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.
SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds
SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial.
Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity
It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited.