Tag: Thomas Aquinas | Page 7 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 2, 2021

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Physical Sciences
Physics
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, Anthropic Principle, Aquinas’ Fifth Way, astrophysics, atheism, Big Bang, Chicago, cosmic fine-tuning, multiverse, probabilities, Star Wars, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

“Multiverse” Myth Frees Atheists from Real Science

_{Michael Egnor
March 2, 2021

Physical Sciences, Physics

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Deniers of God’s existence have clung to one main gambit to avoid the design implications of the fine-tuning of the universe. Read More ›

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Date
May 18, 2020

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Medicine
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, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, Evolution News, health, ID the Future, medicine, neurosurgeon, pandemic, podcast, policymakers, public policy, science, Thomas Aquinas, transparency, WHO}

Thomas Aquinas Weighs in on the Coronavirus and Public Policy

_{Science & Culture
May 18, 2020

Medicine

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Scientists should have “stayed in their lane,” giving policymakers the information that science can provide about a potential pandemic, and left the political calculations alone. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 7, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Psychology
Sociology
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, __k-review, calculus, Congress, coronavirus, COVID-19, economics, elderly, epidemiology, euthanasia, experts, health, neurosurgeon, Politics, President, probabilities, public policy, scientists, social distancing, Thomas Aquinas}

Balancing Lives, Economics, and Public Policy in This Plague

_{Michael Egnor
April 7, 2020

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine, Psychology, Sociology

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Our political policy makers (the President, Congress and the Senate, governors, etc.) should make their calculus transparent. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 30, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
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, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, Aeon, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, atheism, Big Bang, debate, faith, First Cause, general relativity, laws of physics, logic, marijuana, natural science, natural theology, New Atheism, Peter Atkins, science, Scripture, Singularity, Thomas Aquinas, University of Oxford, William Lane Craig}

Can Science Answer All the “Big” Questions?

_{Michael Egnor
January 30, 2020

Faith & Science, Mathematics

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Peter Atkins is right that science can answer the biggest question we can ask. His problem is that he doesn’t like the answer science provides. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 6, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Scientific Reasoning
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, __edited, Aristotle, astrophysics, atheism, Big Bang, cosmic inflation, Darwinian evolution, Ethan Siegel, evidence, Five Ways, general relativity, heresy, inference, inferential science, information, logic, natural theology, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), Ontological Argument, quantum mechanics, reason, 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

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

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 19, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, Arthur Conan Doyle, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, demons, Duke of Argyll, Ernst Mayr, First Cause, Freeman Dyson, Harvard University, Jonathan Wells, materialists, Nature's Prophet, spiritualism, Summa Theologica, T.H. Huxley, The World of Life, Thomas Aquinas}

Why Nature’s Prophet Had to be Written

_{Michael Flannery
November 19, 2019

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Wallace’s greatest “heresy” was to become, after his co-discovery of natural selection, “godfather” of the modern theory of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 24, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, Ann Gauger, Austria, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, causal circularity, Douglas Axe, ethology, fossil record, German, Günter Bechly, Homo (genus), Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, intelligent design, Martin Nowak, Michael Chaberek, Michael Denton, neo-Darwinian model, Ola Hössjer, proteins, Siegfried Scherer, Stephen Meyer, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, waiting-time problem}

Watch: Videos Now Available from the Recent ID Conference In Austria

_{Günter Bechly
October 24, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Several prominent members of the ID movement presented talks at the conference, including Stephen Meyer, Ann Gauger, Michael Denton, and Brian Miller. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 22, 2019

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

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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 ›