Tag: Plato
Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity
It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited.
Notre Dame Hosts a Conference on Creation, Including Intelligent Design
The organizers accepted my abstract for a talk about “The Return of Teleology to the Natural Sciences.”
The Relevance of Intelligent Design to Science and Society: A Primer
“ID is one of the foundational ideas in the history of civilization. It has deep roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions and among non-Christian thinkers.”
Mathematics and the God Hypothesis
There is a classical proof of God’s existence that uses universal concepts such as mathematics, proposed most prominently by St. Augustine.
Nature Divinized: Darwin’s Goddess for All Seasons
Some modern archaeologists have even gone so far as to claim that the archetype of the Great Mother has been a mythic universal.