Tag: causation
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.
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’ Third Way: An Analogy to Moonlight
Imagine that you are an astronomer on a world with one moon. It is always night on your world, and the moon is the only body in the sky.