Tag: philosophy
Does Nature Show Purpose? Reply to a Materialist Philosopher
Aristotelian teleology is, as Joseph Carter points out, manifested by order in nature. More precisely, teleology is consistency: natural processes tend to consistent ends.
Is Sean Carroll a Boltzmann Brain?
Carroll, a cosmologist and physicist specializing in general relativity and cosmology at Caltech, is highly regarded by the New Atheist community.
What Is Form?
Materialism is an impoverished perspective on nature, and it creates, rather than solves, problems in metaphysics and science.
Why Aristotle and Aquinas?
Here’s a fair question: Why do I prattle on so much about scholastic philosophy? Of what genuine relevance is it to intelligent design?
What Is Matter? The Aristotelian Perspective
Writing here yesterday, I pointed out the problems with materialist metaphysics.