Tag: mechanistic view
Isaac Newton — Proto-Intelligent Design Advocate
Some atheists, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, have miscast Newton as a mechanist and a materialist, in their own image.
Listen: Scott Turner on Evolutionary Biology’s Mechanistic Bias
Viewing the brain as a computer, for example, obscures many things about the brain and the mind that exceed computers, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Edward Feser on Aristotle’s Revenge — Purpose and Essence in Nature
Scientists can get along without Aristotle’s metaphysics, says Feser, but science can’t.