In The Surprise by G.K. Chesterton, the author of a play sees his characters act justly and with love at his creative command, yet he
If we were to follow Richard Dawkins as our guide, we would conclude that living creatures are not created. Opposing Arguments Differ in Defining
Being human is the strangest being of any. We are material, alive, naturally intelligent and loving, but most wonderfully, we possess the gift of supernatural
I believe we often have definitive rationales for what we acknowledge as true and for what we do, even though we may have difficulty expressing
This essay proposes (1) that the perennial philosophy posits a distinction between intelligibility and matter, but also an integration, (2) that consistent with this integration,
The dominant progressive view of human history is that of an evolution of liberty, with the current acme of that evolution in western democracies. This
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