You Are There

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

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Dawkins Is More than Zeal

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

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Contingent is What You Will

What do an evolutionary biologist, the International Theological Commission and St. Thomas Aquinas have in common? They use words like contingent and contingency, but with

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One Sign in our Day

In my August 5th post, I claimed that the foundation of all human knowledge is one’s own personal experience. Further I noted that no one

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Taking Aquinas Serieslessly

Current presentations of the Aristotelian/Thomistic arguments of the Unmoved Mover and the First Cause reject infinite series while often appearing to endorse finite series. This

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