Tag: Thomas Aquinas
Aquinas’ First Way and a Stack of Books
Nature is like a stack of books, sessile, until moved.
Introducing Aquinas’ Five Ways
In my ongoing debate with biologist Jerry Coyne, frequent reference is made to Aquinas’ Five Ways, particularly to his Prime Mover argument.
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.
“Who Designed the Designer?”: Egnor Addresses a Perennial Challenge
Because the challenge is perennial, and because we’re not all philosophers, it’s good to come back to it from time to time.
Jerry Coyne on Our “Divinity Sense Organs”
Sir David Attenborough, an agnostic, invokes a rather nice metaphor about a termite mound.