Zygote Type post Author Michael Egnor Date May 16, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsFaith & ScienceLife SciencesMetaphysicsPhilosophy Tagged , abortion, act, actuality, adults, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, baby, genius, gestation, human being, Jerry Coyne, life, possibilities, potency, potentiality, rational thought, soul, Thomistic philosophy, zygote Must We Be Able to Reason to Be Thought of as Human Persons? Michael Egnor May 16, 2022 Bioethics, Faith & Science, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy 5 A common argument as to why abortion is generally ethical is that the unborn child cannot reason. Read More ›
Wistar Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date November 8, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionMathematics Tagged , __k-review, C.H. Waddington, calculations, Darwin on Trial, Darwin-skeptics, Darwinists, David Berlinski, evidence, evolution, Michael Denton, micromutations, organisms, organs, Peter Medawar, Philadelphia, Phillip E. Johnson, rational thought, Wistar Symposium Wistar: Been There, Done That David Klinghoffer November 8, 2018 Evolution, Mathematics 5 Would it, in fact, be enlightening if you were to sit a Darwinist and a Darwin skeptic together for an extended period of time to talk and see what really lies at the bottom of their disagreement? Read More ›
Acheulean hand-axes Type post Author Ann Gauger Date September 18, 2018 CategoriesHuman Origins and AnthropologyLinguisticsPsychology Tagged , __k-review, animals, beauty, brain, C.S. Lewis, chimpanzees, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, David Premack, emotions, Jane Goodall, love, mastodons, nerve cells, perception, poetry, rational thought, soul, University of Pennsylvania, wetware Beyond Adaptation: The Human Brain Is Something New Ann Gauger September 18, 2018 Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Psychology 8 Our brains have vastly more ability than is needed for survival, most notably the capacity for language and abstract thought. Read More ›
