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Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: Can God Know The Future?
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Does God…
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Disbelief In Free Will Causes Disbelief In Free Will
Never was the West's wholesale flight from philosophy and a classic education more evident than in the title of this peer-reviewed paper: Prosocial Benefits of Feeling Free: Disbelief in Free…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Free Will The Result Of ‘Background Noise’?
Once again the lack of metaphysical training has led some scientists to say an incredibly silly thing. That free will "could be the result of 'background noise' in the brain."…
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Free Will Cannot Be An Illusion
I get more than two dozen press releases and book announcements a week, a consequence of running a not-as-obscure-as-some-would-wish blog. The latest was from Gregg D. Caruso, an academic philosopher…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Evolution & The Big Bang Are Perfectly Consistent With Christianity (And Catholicism)
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blogcast Summary Against Modern Thought to bring you breaking news: Evolution & The Big Bang Are Perfectly Consistent With Christianity. In what should have been…
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Quantum Mechanics & Free Will: Guest Post by Bob Kurland
This post originally appeared in longer form at Bob's place. There's a lot of meat here; I recommend biting it off in small chunks. "Of course I believe in free…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
From Paganism To Christianity To Deism To Malleism
Pagans---the word is not an insult---believed that God was immanent. If you've seen Star Wars, you have it. "The Force" was God, and The Force was everything. To quote that…
