Thomas Aquinas

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Robert J. Marks II
February 25, 2022
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Discussing Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem

Robert J. Marks II
February 25, 2022
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What does it even mean to be aware of something, to be conscious? Why do the vast majority of people only have one consciousness? Will computers ever experience consciousness? On this Bingecast, Dr. Robert J. Marks and Dr. Angus Menuge discuss these questions and more. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
February 17, 2022
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Don’t Blame Me; I’m a Meat Robot.

Michael Egnor
February 17, 2022
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Methodological naturalism invariably draws certain conclusions. One of these notions is that we have no free will, and therefore, no culpability. We are essentially puppets hanging from genetic strings. Dr. Michael Egnor and Dr. Joshua Farris discuss this erroneous idea, as well as other failing conclusions created by ideological science. Read More ›
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Fr. Michael Chaberek
April 28, 2017
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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Aquinas and Evolution

Fr. Michael Chaberek
April 28, 2017
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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To show the substantial incompatibility (contradiction) between Thomas Aquinas’s teachings and theistic evolution we need to refer to the two levels of his intellectual enterprise. One is the level of philosophy (metaphysics); the other is the level of theology. Whereas philosophy is based entirely on the principles of natural reason and being (reality) without the help of revelation, theology is Read More ›

Zegiestow, Poland. 2019/8/10. Stained-glass window depicting the Creation of the World with the words "And God said, Let us make..." Roman Catholic Church of Saint Anne.
Zegiestow, Poland. 2019/8/10. Stained-glass window depicting the Creation of the World with the words
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Jay W. Richards
April 21, 2011
Intelligent Design
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Catholics and Intelligent Design

Jay W. Richards
April 21, 2011
Intelligent Design
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Part One In three chapters of God and Evolution, I respond to the criticisms of ID from certain, but by no means all, Thomists such as Ed Feser. Feser (whose work I generally hold in high regard) recently wrote a lengthy response to my arguments. Since Feser reiterates many of his previous arguments in this response, I’ve decided to post several excerpts Read More ›

J. Budziszewski
December 20, 1999
Uncategorized
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Natural Born Lawyers

J. Budziszewski
December 20, 1999
Uncategorized
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Books reviewed The Natural Law:A Study in Legal and Social History and Philosophy by Heinrich Albert Rommen, Liberty Fund, 306 pp., $27. In Defense of Natural Law by Robert P. George, Oxford University Press, 354 pp., $65. Aquinas’s Theory of Natural Law: An Analytic Reconstruction by Anthony J. Lisska Oxford University Press, 336 pp., $24.95. Natural Law in Judaism by Read More ›