moonlight-1 Type post Author Michael Egnor Date October 15, 2019 CategoriesAstronomyFaith & ScienceMetaphysicsPhilosophy 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 ›
grains-of-sand Type post Author Michael Egnor Date October 14, 2019 CategoriesFaith & SciencePhilosophy 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 ›
Aquinas Type post Author Michael Egnor Date October 3, 2019 CategoriesFaith & ScienceMetaphysicsPhilosophy Tagged , __edited, a posteriori argument, act, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, cosmological arguments, Five Ways, Jerry Coyne, law of non-contradiction, mechanical philosophy, nature, Parmenides, potency, pre-Socratic philosophers, Prime Mover, quantum indeterminacy, quantum mechanics, Thomas Aquinas, Werner Heisenberg Introducing Aquinas’ Five Ways Michael Egnor October 3, 2019 Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy 12 In my ongoing debate with biologist Jerry Coyne, frequent reference is made to Aquinas’ Five Ways, particularly to his Prime Mover argument. Read More ›
