The news is saturated with the buildup to the presidential election of November 2016 and to the primaries which begin in February 2016. The
I have presented a critique of the first part of Sean Carroll’s lecture, “God Is Not a Good Theory”. In that first part, Carroll considers
The decision of the Supreme Court extending marriage to homosexual pairs is a contradiction, not only of revelation by God, but of human nature and of the
In one episode of Peanuts, Charlie Brown lists the four combinations of the relationship between two persons, each being a something or a nothing and
In the video, “The Meaning of Life”, cosmologist, Sean Carroll, proposes atheistic naturalism as consistent with the complete explanation of the universe by the principles
This is the first of two essays on the philosophy of the atheist cosmologist, Sean Carroll. The main idea carried over to the second essay
I backed out of the garage and to the right onto the parking area, then turned left onto the driveway. At the end of the
The dispute, ‘Intelligent Design’ vs. Neo-Darwinism, is philosophical, namely whether the origin of biological forms is rational or random. The ‘ID’ side proceeds from the
It is sometimes said that no one has a sufficient imagination or memory to be a consistent liar. A corollary is: Integrity is characteristic of
In contrast to science, which depends for its advancement upon the gradual temporal development of the technology of instrumentation, philosophy depends upon common human experience
We are to know, love and serve God in this life and to share in the paradise of his Beatific Vision in the next life
Randomness refers to thought. Generally, randomness designates the ignorance of order. Specifically, it is the logical process of defining a population or set of new
The rhetoric of the American Revolution was mild compared to that of the French Revolution. In Great Britain the monarchy had long since been replaced
Adam’s sin weakened the will and darkened the intellect of all his progeny. God promised a redeemer to remedy the human condition. Every time I
For Richard Dawkins the ideal of education is to teach children how to think rather than what to think (The God Delusion, p. 327). Nevertheless,
In the context of a technological assay, such as a screening test for a disease, a false positive is a failure, but, if its frequency
If liturgical awareness begins about age six, only those of us fifty years and older remember the Latin Mass, which preceded the introduction of the
The task of the Inquisition is to determine the truth of allegations of hypocrisy of the member of a voluntary association. The target is the
Peter Kreeft recently presented an essay on the theme that, in his claim to be God, the historical Jesus of Nazareth could not have been wrong
In the 1950s a television show entitled You Are There, dramatizing historical events, was hosted by Walter Cronkite. The historical sketches were presented as if
I mean Faith and science in the context of philosophy. As humans we can only concentrate on one thing at a time, so we
Oftentimes the new atheists, including Richard Dawkins, are dismissed as offering nothing new, but simply expressing an evangelic fervor in spreading atheism. This could not
Gerard M. Verschuuren has asked, “Can Darwinism survive without teleology?” He answered, no. However, this answer continues the confusion which prompted the question. That very
Time in physics is a linear mathematical variable used to express the measurement of one motion as the comparison of it to another motion. Time
