Tag: Thomism
A Superb New Website: Introducing Aquinas.Design
There is an ongoing debate about intelligent design in the Thomist system.
Note to Thomists: The Ear Is a Reverse Piano
James Hudspeth, of Rockefeller University, just won the Norwegian Academy of Science’s Kavli Prize in science.
“Emergence” and the Soul
Emergence, as a perceptual surprise, can’t explain the mind because emergence presupposes the mind.
New Book Replies to Modern Thomists Who Would Make Peace with Evolution
There are several reasons that some theists remain reluctant to dispute the Darwinian account of life’s origins — and man’s origins.
“No Real Conflict When One Side Gives Up”: Richard Weaver and the Darwin Debate
Richard M. Weaver, who died at age 53 in 1963, effectively launched modern philosophical and political conservatism in the United States. Everyone cites one of his titles, Ideas Have Consequences, but too few bother to read his actual works. In reading him now I’m struck by what a brilliant ally he would have made in the current debate over Darwinism. Though a philosopher and a professor of English stationed at the University of Chicago, he anticipated not only the major outlines of contemporary thinking about why the evolution debate matters. He also foresaw the outlines of the scientific critique of Darwinian theory. I’ve been writing about him the past week in this series (whose Parts I through IV are here, Read More ›