Tag: Five Ways

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Date
June 6, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Anselm of Canterbury, autism, Christianity, creator, Denyse O'Leary, faith and reason, Five Ways, Jesus Christ, Kurt Gödel, lawfulness, Matt Dillahunty, Michael Egnor, Moral Law, prayer, Robert J. Marks II, science and religion, Stephen Hawking, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Sowell, universe}

Egnor: The Architecture of Reality

_{Science and Culture
June 6, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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In a new podcast discussion with Robert J. Marks, Michael Egnor talks about the relationship between faith and arguments from philosophical reasoning. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
February 25, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Apostle Paul, belief, evidence, Five Ways, free will, history, intellectuals, intelligent design, materialism, philosophers, Pinocchio, Plato, Richard Dawkins, science, Stephen Hawking, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universe, worldview}

A New Look at Three Deep Questions

_{Eric Hedin
February 25, 2024

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Delving into the implications of materialistic determinism, and even quantum uncertainty, Coody provides a fresh look at the subject. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 19, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, black holes, essential causal chain, evolution, First Way, Five Ways, general relativity, gravitation, Isaac Newton, Jerry Coyne, laws of nature, natural theology, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, summer, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Why the Universe Itself Can’t Be the Most Fundamental Thing

_{Michael Egnor
April 19, 2021

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

5}

Imagine a chain hanging from the sky supporting a weight suspended in the air. Each link in the chain is a cause for the continued suspension of the links. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 6, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, astrophysicist, astrophysics, atheism, Big Bang, cosmic inflation, Darwinian evolution, Ethan Siegel, evidence, evidentialism, Five Ways, general relativity, heresy, inference, inferential science, information, logic, natural theology, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), Ontological Argument, properly basic belief, quantum mechanics, reason, red shift, Stephen Jay Gould, theists, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Astrophysicist Asks: Did God Create the Universe?

_{Michael Egnor
January 6, 2020

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Scientific Reasoning

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Natural theology is the science of God’s existence, and it’s a massive trove of evidence and reason of the first order. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 12, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, atheism, autopsy, bacteria, Christopher Hitchens, computer program, creation myth, Edward Feser, evolutionary theory, First Amendment, Five Ways, Gaia, genetic information, Lawrence Krauss, Ludwig Wittgenstein, meat machines, New Atheists, Nobel Prize, paganism, plagiarism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Aquinas}

New Atheism: A Shipwreck of Fools

_{Michael Egnor
December 12, 2019

Faith & Science

5}

New Atheism is dead. It was conceptually dead from birth, but now it’s stopped twitching. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 22, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, accident, acorn, Aristotle, atheism, causation, cellular metabolism, chance, complexity, Darwinism, deism, efficient cause, evolution, Fifth Way, final cause, Five Ways, formal cause, intelligent design, material cause, natural science, nature, oak tree, 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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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

7}

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
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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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

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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 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 ›