Profile of Polkinghorne
Discover offers a look at Anglican priest and particle physicist John Polkinghorne: “When he describes his line of work, John Polkinghorne jests, he encounters “more suspicion than a vegetarian...
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Carroll on the Philosophy of Nature
William Carroll writes at Public Discourse (“The Limits of Life: Biology and the Philosophy of Nature“): ‘For some time, astrobiologists have been studying what are called extremophiles, organisms that...
View ArticleMartin on Sheed on Sanity
Catholic World Report offers an interview with Hampton University’s Dr. Joseph Martin about Frank Sheed, the Catholic writer, and his conviction that reason finds its fulfillment in the Faith: Sheed’s...
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Lewis, MacDonald, Krauthammer & the Soul
You’ve probably come across this quote before: You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. I am glad to discover that the source of this quote is not, as is commonly claimed, C. S. Lewis,...
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Time & Space
Twelve million years ago, a star in the galaxy we call M82 exploded. Since M82 lies 12 million light years away, the light from that explosion just reached Earth last week, being first noticed on...
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Science Isn’t Special: Short Quotes and Notes on Realism
M. Anthony Mills, by way of writing about Chesterton, Pascal, Duhem, and conspiracy theories at RealClearReligion, gets at the reason that I support a modest, moderate, considered, cautious, or...
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Short Notes on the Multiverse
Laura Mersini-Houghton writes in the latest issue of Nautilus in defense of the multiverse, offering, she says, empirical evidence for it. Her claims are, needless to say, controversial. Yet I would...
View ArticleFeser on the Soul
Edward Feser answers some questions on the nature of the soul: “Remember, the Thomist allows that in the intellect’s normal state, corporeal activity is necessary for its operation — it’s just not...
View ArticleCarrol on Kitcher on Nagel
At Public Discourse, William Carroll asks: Is it wrong to study the natural sciences using a metaphysical framework that sees unity in reality? “Illusions of Unity? Mind, Value, and Nature” “Kitcher’s...
View ArticleA Little Nothing for the Weekend
A discussion at First Things. First, in “Response to ‘Fifty Shades of Nothing‘”, John Leslie and Robert Lawrence Kuhn respond to Ed Feser’s previous critique of their volume, The Mystery of Existence:...
View ArticleMartin on the Idea of God
Regis Martin writes at Crisis: “The answer, of course, is that the idea of God has no particular source, no genesis one could trace back to the point of origin. Anymore than, say, the idea of geometry,...
View ArticleMills on Stenger
At Real Clear Religion, Notre Dame’s M. Anthony Mills critiques Victor Stenger’s book, God and the Atom: Stenger argues that, since its inception, atomism and atheism have gone hand in hand. To accept...
View ArticleSakimoto: “The Astronomer’s God”
At Ethika Politika: “One reason I took up the pursuit of astronomy was that I wanted to understand everything in the Universe. And, in that case, I meant everything. I said that being an astronomer...
View ArticleFeser on Kuhn on Nothing
It turns out, there’s still a lot you can say about nothing: “The wary reader might fear that what we have here is a rehash of Krauss’s unhappy speculations about “possible candidates for nothingness”...
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Pigliucci, Dawkins, Transubstantiation, & Samuel Johnson
Philosopher Massimo Pigliucci writes a post at his blog Rationally Speaking regarding the supernatural, and discusses some specifically Catholic ideas in so doing. Now, Pigliucci is also a naturalist...
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Fr. Griffin: “Pope defends faith as a way to truth”
I am looking foward to reading the new encyclical Lumen fidei, issued by Pope Francis and started by Pope Benedict. For now, here is some commentary from MercatorNet by Fr. Carter Griffin. The topic of...
View ArticleSuarez Interview, Part II
…on science and religion, quantum physics and free will, and on being a Catholic scientist, is available now from Zenit.
View ArticleInterview Science and Free Will
Zenit posts today the first part of an interview with physicist Antoine Suarez: “My motivation to organize this conference and to edit the book was to discuss the idea that science today is compatible...
View ArticleLatkovic on the Brain and the Mind
At Public Discourse today: “Are You Out of Your Brain? Reflections on Free Will and Neuroscience” by Mark Latkovic As if to press the Delete key on the views of untold numbers of thinkers who have...
View ArticleBarr on Seagrave on Evolution
Over at Public Discourse, S. Adam Seagrave offers an objection to evolution, and Stephen Barr responds: Sensation reigns supreme within its own domain, but its domain is not the whole of what is...
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