Tag: G.K. Chesterton

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
September 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, algorithms, amino acids, Aristotle, causation, chickens, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, explanations, final cause, G.K. Chesterton, human body, intelligent design, laws of physics, life, materialism, Mereology, Mona Lisa, oncologists, purpose, purposefulness, quantum physics, science of purpose, Stephen J. Iacoboni, Stuart Kauffman, supernatural, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Theist Doctor, Materialist Doctor

_{Daniel Witt
September 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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To be a good medical doctor, you have to treat the human body as if its parts have purpose and function. There’s really no way around it. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, aboutness, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, autism, B. F. Skinner, ChatGPT, chess, Elon Musk, Erik Larson, G.K. Chesterton, Go (game), human bodies, large language models, machines, Noam Chomsky, rabbits, René Descartes, self-driving cars, Tesla, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, words}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Poverty of the Stimulus

_{William A. Dembski
January 30, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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It doesn’t even matter if the child is blind, deaf, or both. Barring developmental disorders (such as some forms of autism), the child can learn language. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
March 28, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Technology
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Dante, Discovery Institute Press, G.K. Chesterton, George Gilder, Holocaust, Homo sapiens, John Milton, knowledge, Malcolm Muggeridge, morality, relativism, scientism, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Restoration of Man, Winston Churchill}

Michael D. Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis and Scientism

_{Peter Biles
March 28, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Technology

5}

Scientism claims that science alone dictates the truth, although this system of thought depends on non-scientific reasons to come to such a conclusion. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, charity, Christianity, Edward Feser, Empedocles, evolution, Finding Darwin's God, G.K. Chesterton, gnosticism, Howard Glicksman, human dignity, intelligent design, John West, Kenneth Miller, kin selection, sexuality, Simon Conway Morris, Steve Laufmann, teleology, theology, Thomas Aquinas, University of Notre Dame, Your Designed Body}

Attempts to Reconcile Evolutionary Theory with Christianity Lead to Intractable Tensions

_{Brian Miller
November 30, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

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The fundamental premise of evolutionary theory is that humans are the product of an undirected process that did not have us in mind. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
November 1, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, agnosticism, Alfred Russel Wallace, animals, Arthur Balfour, C.S. Lewis, evolution, G.K. Chesterton, Gifford lectures, intelligent design, morality, natural selection, Plato, relativism, St. George Jackson Mivart, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin}

Humanity: Natural Selection’s Ultimate Challenge According to C. S. Lewis

_{John G. West
November 1, 2021

Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology, Scientific Reasoning

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How could a blind material process produce man’s unique capabilities of reason and conscience? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 15, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Big Bang, black holes, causes, David Papineau, dualism, electrons, G.K. Chesterton, general relativity, materialism, materialists, neuroscience, quantum entanglement, quantum mechanics, space-time, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Is the Universe Causally Closed?

_{Michael Egnor
July 15, 2021

Cosmology, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Materialists argue that dualism of mind and brain is not possible because of causal closure — by which they mean that all physical effects have physical causes. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
January 8, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Charles Dickens, Darwinism, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, Great Britain, Jacques Barzun, London, Ludwig van Beethoven, Malcolm Muggeridge, Russia, scientism, The Restoration of Man, Victorian England}

Shaw, Scientism, and Darwinism

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
January 8, 2021

Bioethics

4}

George Bernard Shaw’s positive criterion by which to measure and ridicule folly and vice was fatally ambiguous, eclectic, and inconstant. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
January 7, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Brave New World, Christianity, Darwinism, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, imperialism, militarism, moral responsibility, Social Darwinism, Soviet Union, T.S. Eliot, Westminster Abbey, William F. Buckley Jr., William Shakespeare}

Darwinism as the Root Problem of Modernity

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
January 7, 2021

Bioethics, Ethics

8}

Shaw and Chesterton believed that the acceptance of Darwinism made it impossible to resist social Darwinism, plutocracy, imperialism, racialism, and militarism. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
January 6, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Christianity, eugenics, feminism, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Malcolm Muggeridge, National Review, socialism, The Restoration of Man}

Shaw, Chesterton, and the Critique of Darwinism

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
January 6, 2021

Bioethics

5}

Chesterton was a friend of Shaw but also an ideological opponent, who often debated with him on public stages. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
August 16, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Brave New World, Clarence Darrow, Dante, Darwinian theory, David Hume, Frederick Douglass, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, J.B.S. Haldane, Jacques Maritain, John Dewey, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Malcolm Muggeridge, Marxists, Michael Polanyi, Pierre Duhem, Social Darwinism, T.S. Eliot, That Hideous Strength, William Jennings Bryan, William Shakespeare, Yuval Harari}

That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
August 16, 2020

Bioethics

14}

The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards. Read More ›