Okay since this group has been silent for some time, allow me to be controversial. Why must the Catholic orthodox position embrace macro-evolution? If human...
Folks, As I understand it, the same secular cultural trends that have been developing a world-perception that entails a biological evolution have also been ...
Dear all, Just a small point to clarify : light-year is a unit of distance not of time. Regards, Alex ... Accédez au courrier électronique de La Poste :...
Hey, Alex, Thanks for the clarification. I wrote "15 billion light years old." I should have written "15 billion years old." So, to correct myself, in light of...
In a message dated 7/29/2005 10:18:09 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... I agree. ID does not presuppose Aristotelian teleology. However, the intent of ID is not...
In a message dated 7/29/2005 2:03:47 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... Looking at Physics ii.8 Aristotle indicates that teleology among natural things has not gone...
I am intrigued by the convergences noted by Simon Conway Morris. Morris does not stray from basic Darwinian ideas such as common origin and natural selection....
... From: <trey3777@...> ... God ... forced to ... no ... were to ... involves ... to ... end. So ... saves ... intent ... complexity exist and leave ... ...
... From: <trey3777@...> If chance is inadequate to account for the various restarts or gaps in the geological record based upon some form of regularity...
In a message dated 7/29/2005 3:29:45 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... I have question. Do we know that ID requires God to keep intervening with additional...
In a message dated 7/29/2005 3:47:01 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... This seems to be a false dichotomy and possibly a straw man argument might exist. What is a...
In a message dated 7/29/2005 3:47:38 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... Where does Aristotle specifically say that there can be no cross-breeding between two...
As near as I can tell, ID's official position is to have no official position. But how many explanations can there be? If the unnamed mechanism is chance or ...
Hi, Is the notion of the aition being represented? Couldn't the evolutionists have their way in the sense of the material cause. In that sense all living ...
In a message dated 7/29/2005 4:23:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... Kip, it depends on what kind of agency. If the agency is secondary causality rather than a...
In a message dated 7/29/2005 5:21:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... Yes I believe if there is a way to reconcile microevolution for example with a Creation...
A very general question. To what extent might the compatibility between Aristotle and Christian Scripture that Aquinas found be explained by influence of ...
... From: <trey3777@...> ... For Aristotle and Aquinas, nature is not something all encompassing, as we mean when we often speak today. Rather, they meant...
Dan, Biblical scholars have moved away from Bultmann's position that Greco-Roman philosophy influenced Paul and Scripture. They now lean toward Jewish ...
In a message dated 7/30/2005 6:50:42 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... Dear Anthony, sorry for the delay. My wife wants to see the Grand Canyon before leaving for...
... From: <trey3777@...> In a message dated 7/30/2005 6:50:42 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... Aristotelian ... destruction ... Dear Anthony, sorry for the...
In a message dated 8/1/2005 10:12:49 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... The suggestion that olives cannot come from vines due to the natural tendency of either is...
... From: <trey3777@...> ... This still means that teleology has no natural explanation for *major* variations in the geological record. There may be no...
It is tempting to focus on Aristotle's teleology, perhaps because it is so different from modern thought. But teleology is only part of Aristotle's natural...
The conclusion of this paragraph "teleologyremains scientifically inferior to evolution," is not proved by anything stated prior to it. Presumably the "reason"...
... From: "Gerald Harnett" <gharnett@...> ... Aristotle not only fails to offer an explanation for the appearance of radically different species, but...
In a message dated 8/3/2005 6:39:55 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... Aristotle did suggest that hawks of different forms unite and Aristotle allowed for...
... From: <trey3777@...> ... In order for such an enhancement to be teleological, it must have been generated specifically FOR THE SAKE OF the organism. It...
