Tag: philosophy
What Is Matter? The Aristotelian Perspective
Writing here yesterday, I pointed out the problems with materialist metaphysics.
Darwinian Biologist Endorses Killing Handicapped Babies Who “Suffer”
This odious stuff never ends.
Only Humans Understand “Significance”
Materialists believe that, in the end, we are only so many carbon molecules, signifying nothing.
Undeniable? A Conversation with Theistic Evolutionist Hans Vodder
Suppose I were to place a small diamond just below the surface of the sand in the Sahara Desert, and you were to set out to find it.
Are Methodological Naturalism and Philosophical Naturalism the Same? A Dissent
In a previous post, I argued that methodological naturalism is a reasonable and neutral working principle limiting everyday science to natural causes.
I and Thou — Roger Scruton on What Makes Human Beings Unique
Whatever its cause, our moral natures do indeed distinguish us from fauna.
In Evolutionary Literature, Researchers Habitually Slip in Teleological Language
How would you explain the evolution of a small set of genes that are expressed for but a few hours when we consist of only 8-16 cells?
How Physicists Learned to Love the Multiverse
The Principle of Plenitude, an idea with a long history, holds that everything that can exist will exist.
Darwin, Marx, and Freud: The Genealogy of “Posthumanism”
Exactly how posthumanism cashes out in contemporary cultural terms is the subject of a detailed study with new polling data by John G. West.
Now It’s “Posthumanist Ethical Pluralism”
If human life doesn’t have the highest ultimate objective value, there is no way to philosophically defend universal human rights.