Tag: causation
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.
Scientists Discover a “New” Fourth (Meningeal) Membrane Surrounding the Brain
When it comes to causation, there are only two classes of causal forces; those are material causes and intelligent causes.
Does Disbelief in Human Evolution Foment Racism?
This study does not provide an adequate explanation as to why belief in evolution would cause one to be less racist. Indeed, the logic seems backwards.
Is ID Bad Theology? No, but the Objection Is
Mark Vernon has mistaken a narrow deism for theism and then charged theists with blasphemy for considering God free to act within the created order.
In Biological Origins, Bottom-Up or Top-Down Causation?
Michael Denton says that the evidence has been growing for top-down causation, which poses a challenge to reductionist and materialistic origins science.