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Philosopher Ed Feser offers some fun: Richard Dawkins vs. Thomas Aquinas
| November 12, 2017 | Posted by News under Atheism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, Religion |
At his blog: Recently I was interviewed by Matt Fradd for his Pints with Aquinas podcast. We talk a bit about Five Proofs of the Existence of God, but our main topic is Richard Dawkins’s critique of Aquinas’s Five Ways in The God Delusion. We work through each of the objections Dawkins raises and discuss […]
Ed Feser prefers old atheists too
| April 17, 2016 | Posted by News under Atheism, Darwinism, News |
From Feser’s blog: Now, what Parsons actually said is that the trouble with New Atheist writers is “their logical lacunae and sophomoric mistakes” when addressing philosophical matters, and their tendency to “tar everything with the same brush” rather than distinguishing more sophisticated religious arguments and claims from cruder ones. “[D]efeating your opponents’ arguments,” says Parsons, […]
Feser Demolishes Coyne
| January 21, 2016 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
In a few short paragraphs here. For some reason the phrase “epic smackdown” keeps coming to mind.
Philosopher Ed Feser on physicist Larry Krauss
| October 17, 2015 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Naturalism, News, Philosophy |
Readers may remember Larry “All scientists should be militant atheists” Krauss. At The Public Discourse, Thomist philosopher Ed Feser offers, Scientists Should Tell Lawrence Krauss to Shut Up Already Dr. Feser, may we assume that you are not a fan? In a recent opinion piece for The New Yorker, physicist Lawrence Krauss proclaims that “all […]
Hyper-skepticism and “My way or the highway”: Feser’s extraordinary post
| July 29, 2014 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
Imagine that scientists discovered the best documentary evidence for God’s existence that anyone could possibly hope for: messages in the DNA of each and every human cell, saying “Made by Yahweh.” Imagine that a notorious New Atheist and a well-known Catholic philosopher are both asked by journalists what they make of this evidence. The New […]
On not doing one’s homework: A reply to Professor Edward Feser
| May 14, 2014 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
Professor Edward Feser and Intelligent Design defender Dr. Lydia McGrew have been having a lively exchange of views on classical theism, miracles and Intelligent Design. Dr. McGrew, who is also a Christian apologist, concluded her blog post, Things God can do to reveal Himself, with these words: God has revealed Himself personally, by audible language, […]
Fixing Feser’s Fifth: Why his up-to-date version of Aquinas’ Fifth Way fails as a proof, and how to make it work
| August 24, 2013 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
Above: Ludwig van Beethoven in 1804. Below: The opening of Beethoven’s Fifth. Among St. Thomas Aquinas’ celebrated five proofs of the existence of God, the Fifth Way holds a special place: it is the only one which explicitly attempts to show that the cosmos is dependent on some Intelligent Being, Who directs all natural objects […]
Ed Feser and Intelligent Design, Pt. 1 – ID is not an Apologetic!
| August 7, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Intelligent Design |
I’m going to do a series of posts analyzing a talk given by renowned Thomist philosopher Ed Feser. The full video is available at the end of this post. In any case, the Thomists are well worth responding to, given that they are some of the most vocal Christian critics of Intelligent Design. Or are […]
Edward Feser Contemplates the Reason Rally
| March 17, 2012 | Posted by nullasalus under Atheism, Philosophy |
Aristotilean/Thomist philosopher and sometimes ID Critic Edward Feser has recently penned a blog entry about the upcoming atheist “Reason Rally.”
It’s all about information, Professor Feser
| January 29, 2012 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
Over at his blog, Professor Edward Feser has been writing a multi-part critique of Professor Alex Rosenberg’s bestselling book, The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions. Rosenberg is an unabashed defender of scientism, an all-out reductionist who doesn’t believe in a “self”, doesn’t believe we have thoughts that are genuinely about anything, and […]
Philosopher Ed Feser vs. Darwinist Jerry Coyne’s combox
| July 21, 2011 | Posted by News under Atheism, Cosmology, Philosophy |
Here, philosopher Ed Feser offers a flyswatter for weak cosmological arguments against the existence of God: Most people who comment on the cosmological argument demonstrably do not know what they are talking about. This includes all the prominent New Atheist writers. It very definitely includes most of the people who hang out in Jerry Coyne’s […]
Professor Feser, We Request Clarification
| May 11, 2011 | Posted by Thomas Cudworth under Intelligent Design |
I thank Professor Feser for his reply to my latest question. Feser’s reply appears to bring us much closer together, though I am not sure, so I must probe a bit more. First of all, let me clear some things out of the way: 1. No, I do not expect Feser to agree to bad […]
A New Question for Edward Feser
| April 20, 2011 | Posted by Thomas Cudworth under Intelligent Design |
Over the past several months, Dr. Edward Feser has been engaged in debate with various ID proponents, most recently Jay Richards and Vincent Torley, over the relationship between two types of argument for God’s existence: on the one hand, arguments from design such as are found in Paley and in the writings of some ID […]
An argument about ships, oaks, corn and teleology – will Professor Feser finally concede that it is possible for a living thing to be the product of design?
| April 18, 2011 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
UPDATE: Professor Feser has drawn my attention to a remark he made in a recent post: The dispute between Thomism on the one hand and Paley (and ID theory) on the other is not over whether God is in some sense the “designer” of the universe and of living things – both sides agree that […]
Catholics and intelligent design: Jay Richards’ response to Ed Feser
| April 8, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology |
Pro-design Jay Richards has responded to neo-Thomist Ed Feser’s attack on evidence for design in nature. Also: “Thomas Aquinas as ancient evolutionary psychologist”
Professor Feser’s Puzzling Assault on ID
| April 18, 2010 | Posted by Thomas Cudworth under Intelligent Design |
In an earlier column (27 March 2010), I offered constructive criticism of the position of Francis Beckwith, who had implied an incompatibility between the ID and Thomist approaches to design, and had condemned ID for advancing or at least implying a bad form of Christian theology: http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/what-francis-beckwith-gets-wrong-about-intelligent-design/ Prof. Beckwith responded once to my article, but […]
A Response to Professor Feser
| April 11, 2010 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
Professor Edward Feser is an intrepid philosopher, who is not afraid to confront error head-on and expose it for what it is. That is an admirable trait. He is also a former atheist, who now defends religion from a traditional Roman Catholic perspective. In his book The Last Superstition (St. Augustine’s Press, 2008; available here […]
Animals, abstraction, arithmetic and language
| July 24, 2016 | Posted by vjtorley under Animal minds, Intelligent Design |
During the past two weeks, over at Evolution News and Views, Professor Michael Egnor has been arguing that it is the capacity for abstract thought which distinguishes humans from other animals, and that human language arises from this capacity. While I share Dr. Egnor’s belief in human uniqueness, I have to take issue with his […]
Why people still don’t believe evolutionary theory?
| June 5, 2016 | Posted by News under Culture, Naturalism |
Because there is something fundamentally wrong with its typical view of life. Life forms are not merely matter in motion. From Jonathan Wells at Evolution News & Views on Third Way (for evolution) thinker Stephen L. Talbott: According to his profile at The Third Way of Evolution, Talbott spent many years working in the engineering […]
Catholic critics of “theistic evolution” are hopelessly divided
| March 23, 2016 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design, Religion, theistic evolution |
John Farrell’s article, It’s Time To Retire ‘Theistic Evolution’ (Forbes magazine, March 19, 2016), cites three prominent Catholic thinkers who reject the term “theistic evolution.” But what Farrell overlooks is that these Catholics hold wildly divergent views on the simple question of whether living things were designed by God. Edward Feser insists that they were, […]
