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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 22, 2019

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Faith & Science
Metaphysics
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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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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 17, 2019

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Faith & Science
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, __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
Michael Egnor

Date
October 16, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
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, __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 11, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
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, __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 4, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Aquinas.design, Aristotle, Big Bang, change, Five Ways, general relativity, law of non-contradiction, photosynthesis, potency, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, Summa Contra Gentiles, Thomas Aquinas}

Aquinas’ First Way and a Stack of Books

_{Michael Egnor
October 4, 2019

Faith & Science

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Nature is like a stack of books, sessile, until moved. 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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 17, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __nedited, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Aristotle, C.S. Lewis, Discovery Institute Press, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, G.K. Chesterton, George Gilder, imago Dei, Jay Richards, John Henry Newman, John Paul II, Malcolm Muggeridge, Michael Aeschliman, National Review, Psalms, PZ Myers, The Restoration of Man}

From National Review, a Rave for Aeschliman on the “Religion of Science”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 17, 2019

Faith & Science

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Restoring man’s image is functionally equivalent to restoring the tradition of great thought and great writing. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
September 10, 2019

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Physics
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, __edited, Aristotle, Boeing, Darwinism, earth, engineers, First Cause, intelligent design, intelligent designer, materialists, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, universe, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Once Again: Who Designed the Designer?

_{Granville Sewell
September 10, 2019

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physics

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“Some may ask, ‘What is the origin of the engineers? Therefore I don’t believe that this machine has been designed.’” Read More ›

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Date
July 17, 2019

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

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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 ›