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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 15, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
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, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Big Bang, causation, change, existence, Five Ways, law of non-contradiction, logic, Moon, potency, sun, Thomas Aquinas}

Aquinas’ Third Way: An Analogy to Moonlight

_{Michael Egnor
October 15, 2019

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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Imagine that you are an astronomer on a world with one moon. It is always night on your world, and the moon is the only body in the sky. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 11, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, bias, cat, Christianity, dog, essence, existence, faith, kittens, reality, Thomas Aquinas, unicorns, Venn diagram}

Essence and Existence: The Cornerstone of Thomistic Metaphysics

_{Michael Egnor
October 11, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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I can describe anything you like in whatever detail you like, but you can’t know whether it exists or not merely by its description. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 3, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, act, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, Five Ways, Jerry Coyne, law of non-contradiction, mechanical philosophy, nature, potency, pre-Socratic philosophers, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, Thomas Aquinas, Werner Heisenberg}

Introducing Aquinas’ Five Ways

_{Michael Egnor
October 3, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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In my ongoing debate with biologist Jerry Coyne, frequent reference is made to Aquinas’ Five Ways, particularly to his Prime Mover argument. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 30, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, atheism, Bertrand Russell, Christianity, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, evolution, inference, Islam, Jerry Coyne, Plato, Richard Dawkins, Saint Augustine, Siberia, Sir David Attenborough, Stephen Hawking, Summa Theologica, theism, Thomas Aquinas, Timaeus, totalitarianism}

Evolution Has Not Been Kind to Jerry Coyne

_{Michael Egnor
September 30, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Scientific Reasoning

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The design we infer in nature is an insight we abstract from our senses, but the inference itself is acquired by our reason. Read More ›

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Date
July 17, 2019

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, Edward Feser, essence, ID the Future, mechanistic view, Michael Egnor, nature, particles, podcast, purpose, science, scientists, teleology}

Edward Feser on Aristotle’s Revenge — Purpose and Essence in Nature

_{Science & Culture
July 17, 2019

Biology, Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Scientists can get along without Aristotle’s metaphysics, says Feser, but science can’t. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 28, 2019

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, bonobos, evolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, multiverse, neuroscience, Paris, professors, satire, Walter Bradley Center}

Egnor Imagines: Professor Terminated; Replaced by Bonobo

_{David Klinghoffer
May 28, 2019

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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“The search committee interviewed several apes, three mules, and a tomato plant.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 8, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Linguistics
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Physics
Social Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", act, adaptation, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, Erwin Schrödinger, form, genotype, Isaac Newton, matter, phenotype, potency, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, theory, Thomas Aquinas, Universal Darwinism}

Aristotle and Universal Darwinism

_{Michael Egnor
April 8, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Linguistics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Physics, Social Sciences

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The greatest engine of atheism in modern times — Darwin’s theory — is nothing more than a bastardization of the strongest philosophical argument for God’s existence. Read More ›

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Date
November 16, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __k-review, Center for Science and Culture, creationism, Darwin Devolves, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, faith, humanities, hypocrisy, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, Michael Behe, podcast, Roman Catholic}

Hypocrisy Watch: What to Expect When Behe Book Comes Out

_{Science & Culture
November 16, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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“Oh, Michael Behe happens to be a Catholic, therefore we don’t have listen to him on the science.” Well that’s poppycock. Read More ›

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Author
Tom Gilson

Date
November 9, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, bias, Christianity, Genesis, J.B.S. Haldane, Judaism, Lawrence Krauss, methodological naturalism, moral agency, Robert Pennock, science, secularism, straw man, theism, theology, Tom Gilson}

Dump the Metaphysics — How About Methodological Regularism?

_{Tom Gilson
November 9, 2018

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science

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Science doesn’t need methodological naturalism. It doesn’t need methodological theism, either. Read More ›

Golden Sunset Reflecting On A Breaking Ocean Wave

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 3, 2018

Categories
Epistemology
History of Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, Alvin Plantinga, Aristotelianism, Big Bang, causation, Ed Feser, Enlightenment, Francis Bacon, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, knowledge, Maimonides, materialism, nature, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, philosophers, power, René Descartes, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, scientific revolution, scientists, Steven Pinker, Thomas Aquinas}

Knowledge, Power, and the Scientific Enlightenment

_{Michael Egnor
October 3, 2018

Epistemology, History of Science, Metaphysics

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A focus on power, to the neglect of wisdom, is fine, as long as it is recognized that mechanical philosophy is incomplete. Read More ›