Tag: Plato
Aquinas’ Fourth Way: Light in a Mirror
It’s helpful, as with his Third Way, to begin with a metaphor, in order to get an intuitive feel for the proof.
Essence and Existence in Modern Science
St. Thomas laid the intellectual groundwork for modern natural science — the absolute distinction between existence and essence.
Evolution Has Not Been Kind to Jerry Coyne
The design we infer in nature is an insight we abstract from our senses, but the inference itself is acquired by our reason.
Richard Sternberg: Intelligent Design “Through the Eyes of a Platonist”
“There has to be something in addition to just the DNA sequences alone that explains development.”
Origins of a Dictum
“Follow the evidence wherever it leads.” It’s almost the official rallying cry of intelligent design proponents.