Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 17, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, act, Aristotle, clouds, contingency, Five Ways, goodness, grass, images, light, mirror, nobility, ontology, Plato, potency, sky, Summa Contra Gentiles, Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas, trees, truth}

Aquinas’ Fourth Way: Light in a Mirror

_{Michael Egnor
October 17, 2019

Faith & Science

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It’s helpful, as with his Third Way, to begin with a metaphor, in order to get an intuitive feel for the proof. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
October 17, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, Albert Einstein, astronomers, Big Bang, cepheid variable stars, CMBR, cosmological constant, cosmologists, dark energy, dark matter, Doppler effect, Gaia spacecraft, general relativity, Hubble Space Telescope, Nobel Prize, universe}

A Crisis in Cosmology?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
October 17, 2019

Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics

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It’s too bad biologists are not as open about crises in their theories. It’s the sign of a healthy science. 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

10}

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

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Date
October 15, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Darwin's Black Box, Facebook, intelligent design, Michael Behe}

Ever Wonder What the Most Asked Questions About Intelligent Design Are?

_{Science and Culture
October 15, 2019

Intelligent Design

2}

In a Five-Day ID Challenge, Michael Behe will field the most asked questions, from general to philosophical and critical. 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, Big Crunch, causation, change, cosmological arguments, existence, First Way, Five Ways, law of non-contradiction, logic, lunar phases, Moon, moonlight, Necessary Existence, potency, reflection, sun, Third Way, Thomas Aquinas}

Aquinas’ Third Way: An Analogy to Moonlight

_{Michael Egnor
October 15, 2019

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

6}

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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Date
October 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, Darwin, evolution, Facebook, Human, humanity, intelligent design, materialism, origins, science, Science Uprising, scientist}

This Week, Science Uprising Is Coming to Facebook; Here’s How You Can Help

_{Science and Culture
October 14, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

4}

Each day this week we’ll be posting one of the episodes on the CSC Facebook page. Here’s what you can do right now to help. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 14, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, actuality, atheism, cosmological arguments, First Cause, Five Ways, gunpowder, laws of nature, logic, nature, nuclear fusion, potentiality, Prime Mover, proofs, Thomas Aquinas}

Irrefutable, Impeccable, Inescapable: Aquinas’ Second Way

_{Michael Egnor
October 14, 2019

Faith & Science, Philosophy

7}

Every grain of sand is a link in an essential causal chain. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 13, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Ben Shapiro, Darwin's House of Cards, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, Dennis Prager, freethinkers, intellectuals, journalists, Thomas Nagel, Tom Bethell, Tom Wolfe, Yale University}

Before Gelernter, Wolfe, Shapiro, Prager, Nagel, Et Al., There Was Iconoclast Tom Bethell

_{David Klinghoffer
October 13, 2019

Biology, Evolution

2}

Watch this short feature on Bethell, “Iconoclast: One Journalist’s Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 12, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, Alvin Plantinga, dog, essence, existence, Five Ways, geometry, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, logic, Ontological Argument, planets, Plato, Platonic forms, René Descartes, science, stars, Thomas Aquinas, unicorns}

Essence and Existence in Modern Science

_{Michael Egnor
October 12, 2019

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Philosophy

6}

St. Thomas laid the intellectual groundwork for modern natural science — the absolute distinction between existence and essence. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 11, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, atheistic naturalism, bias, cat, Christianity, dog, essence, existence, faith, Fluffy, 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 ›