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Michael Egnor

Date
October 4, 2019

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Faith & Science
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, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Aquinas.design, Aristotle, Big Bang, change, Five Ways, general relativity, law of non-contradiction, photosynthesis, potency, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, Summa Contra Gentiles, Thomas Aquinas}

Aquinas’ First Way and a Stack of Books

_{Michael Egnor
October 4, 2019

Faith & Science

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Nature is like a stack of books, sessile, until moved. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 3, 2019

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Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
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, __edited, a posteriori argument, act, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, Five Ways, Jerry Coyne, law of non-contradiction, mechanical philosophy, nature, potency, pre-Socratic philosophers, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, Thomas Aquinas, Werner Heisenberg}

Introducing Aquinas’ Five Ways

_{Michael Egnor
October 3, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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In my ongoing debate with biologist Jerry Coyne, frequent reference is made to Aquinas’ Five Ways, particularly to his Prime Mover argument. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 30, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Scientific Reasoning
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, __edited, Aristotle, atheism, Bertrand Russell, Christianity, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, evolution, inference, Islam, Jerry Coyne, Plato, Richard Dawkins, Saint Augustine, Siberia, Sir David Attenborough, Stephen Hawking, Summa Theologica, theism, Thomas Aquinas, Timaeus, totalitarianism}

Evolution Has Not Been Kind to Jerry Coyne

_{Michael Egnor
September 30, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Scientific Reasoning

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The design we infer in nature is an insight we abstract from our senses, but the inference itself is acquired by our reason. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 27, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, atheism, Christianity, cosmological argument, Darwinists, evolution, Granville Sewell, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, law of non-contradiction, materialists, Michael Egnor, Richard Dawkins, Sir David Attenborough, Thomas Aquinas, Unmoved Mover}

“Who Designed the Designer?”: Egnor Addresses a Perennial Challenge

_{David Klinghoffer
September 27, 2019

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Because the challenge is perennial, and because we’re not all philosophers, it’s good to come back to it from time to time. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 26, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, agnosticism, atheism, Australia, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Darwinists, David Attenborough, Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, Sir David Attenborough, Thomas Aquinas, will}

Jerry Coyne on Our “Divinity Sense Organs”

_{Michael Egnor
September 26, 2019

Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Sir David Attenborough, an agnostic, invokes a rather nice metaphor about a termite mound. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 3, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Austria, Brazil, Brian Miller, causal circularity, Charles Thaxton, China, David Gelernter, Discovery Institute, Europe, fossil record, Germany, Günter Bechly, hominins, intelligent design, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Chaberek, Michael Denton, Ola Hössjer, paleontology, protein folds, São Paulo, Siegfried Scherer, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Thomas Aquinas, United States, University of Stockholm, Walter Bradley, Yale University}

“Teleology in Nature” Gains a Beachhead in Germany

_{David Klinghoffer
June 3, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design

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As with Discovery Institute, the Zentrum plans to pursue its work not from a faith perspective but from a scientific one. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 8, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Linguistics
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Physics
Social Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", act, adaptation, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, Erwin Schrödinger, form, genotype, Isaac Newton, matter, phenotype, potency, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, theory, Thomas Aquinas, Universal Darwinism}

Aristotle and Universal Darwinism

_{Michael Egnor
April 8, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Linguistics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Physics, Social Sciences

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The greatest engine of atheism in modern times — Darwin’s theory — is nothing more than a bastardization of the strongest philosophical argument for God’s existence. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 5, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, disorder, entropy, evolution, Fifth Way, form, ignorance, information, knowledge, medicine, metaphor, mind, neuroscience, quantum physics, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, Universal Darwinism}

On Universal Darwinism

_{Michael Egnor
April 5, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Physics

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Universal Darwinism is the belief that Darwin’s theory can be applied fruitfully to many scientific disciplines, not just to biology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 1, 2019

Categories
Archaeology
Astronomy
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, bacterium, cryptography, DNA, intelligent design, molecular genetics, organisms, quantum mechanics, SETI, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

What Is Intelligent Design? A Thomistic Perspective

_{Michael Egnor
March 1, 2019

Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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What is it, metaphysically one might say, that distinguishes design in the ID sense from ubiquitous teleological design, in a Thomistic sense? Read More ›

Golden Sunset Reflecting On A Breaking Ocean Wave

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 3, 2018

Categories
Epistemology
History of Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, Alvin Plantinga, Aristotelianism, Big Bang, causation, Ed Feser, Enlightenment, Francis Bacon, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, knowledge, Maimonides, materialism, nature, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, philosophers, power, René Descartes, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, scientific revolution, scientists, Steven Pinker, Thomas Aquinas}

Knowledge, Power, and the Scientific Enlightenment

_{Michael Egnor
October 3, 2018

Epistemology, History of Science, Metaphysics

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A focus on power, to the neglect of wisdom, is fine, as long as it is recognized that mechanical philosophy is incomplete. Read More ›