Category: Philosophy | Page 27 | Science and Culture Today

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Date
November 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Philosophy
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, David Berlinski, Discovery Institute, evolution, Homo Deus, ID the Future, Jonathan Witt, podcast, Singularity, Yuval Noah Harari}

Listen: David Berlinski on His New Book, Human Nature

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November 14, 2019

Evolution, Mathematics, Philosophy, Scientific Freedom

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Is evolution carrying us upward to new heights of human goodness, as some have claimed? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 12, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Linguistics
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, celebrities, David Berlinski, endorsements, groupthink, Hoover Institution, human nature, intellectuals, Stanford University, Uncommon Knowledge, Victor Davis Hanson}

Original, Incisive, Brilliant: Victor Davis Hanson on Berlinski’s Human Nature

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November 12, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics

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“A brilliant indictment of scientific groupthink by an unapologetic intellectual dissident.” Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
November 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, 1984 (novel), Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, Ernst Mayr, George Orwell, London, National Academy of Sciences, naturalism, On the Origin of Species, Phillip E. Johnson, Stephen Meyer, T.H. Huxley, Tacoma, theology}

Phillip Johnson and the Rebellion of the Evidence

_{Paul Nelson
November 6, 2019

Evolution, Philosophy

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When Phil started talking, his diminutive stature and drab appearance melted away, replaced by a series of powerful arguments sharpened with irony and deadly accurate humor. Read More ›

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Author
John Mark Reynolds

Date
November 5, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, Biola University, C.S. Lewis, email, Gandalf, Houston, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mongolia, Mount Doom, orthodoxy, Phillip E. Johnson, Plato, religion, The Lord of the Rings, University of Chicago, University of Rochester}

Phillip E. Johnson: Gandalf Has Gone to the West

_{John Mark Reynolds
November 5, 2019

Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Phillip E. put it this way: “Take the ring to Mount Doom where only a miracle will save you and see.” This is one of the key lessons he taught me: dare to win. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 5, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, Darwinian paradigm, Discovery Institute, evolution, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, Reductionism, Veritas Forum, William A. Dembski}

Phillip E. Johnson: Awaking a Sleeping Giant

_{Michael Flannery
November 5, 2019

Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Part of his brilliance was in recognizing that an appropriate challenge to the reductionisms of our age required a thoroughly multidisciplinary approach. Read More ›

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Date
November 3, 2019

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, artificial intelligence, computers, dystopia, George Gilder, human intelligence, ID the Future, Jay Richards, John Searle, machine learning, qualia, Ray Kurzweil, Seattle, Skynet}

Jay Richards at COSM Talks Ray Kurzweil and Strong AI

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November 3, 2019

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Is the “singularity” coming, as Kurzweil argues there and elsewhere, when machines equal and then quickly surpass human intelligence? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 22, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, accident, Aristotle, atheism, causation, cellular metabolism, chance, complexity, Darwinism, deism, evolution, Fifth Way, final cause, Five Ways, intelligent design, material cause, natural science, nature, order, patterns, purpose, specification, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, watchmaker}

Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Proof from Specification

_{Michael Egnor
October 22, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics

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What’s remarkable in nature is not so much that nature follows complex patterns, but that it follows any pattern at all. Read More ›

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Date
October 20, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, ID the Future, Jonathan Swift, Michael Aeschliman, podcast, scientific reductionism, scientism, The Restoration of Man, theology}

Listen: Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism

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October 20, 2019

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics

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Andrew McDiarmid concludes his two-part conversation with Michael Aeschliman. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 16, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, Edward Feser, Etienne Gilson, Five Ways, Jacques Maritain, Summa Contra Gentiles, Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic philosophy}

Reading Suggestions for Aquinas’ Five Ways

_{Michael Egnor
October 16, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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Our perspective is supported by a rigorous and elegant metaphysical framework, which began with Plato and particularly Aristotle. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 15, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __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 ›