You’ll find my own talk below. (Keep in mind that the camera adds ten pounds. Lots of gin and pizza can add a few pounds too.) There’s a lot of new stuff in this paper. I argue that it is impossible in principle to get from the world to the God of classical theism unless we affirm the act/potency distinction and (therefore) the reality of immanent final causality. Along the way I deal with Greek atomism, Berkeley’s critique of matter, the nature of divine causality, the existential inertia thesis, the problem with Leibnizian cosmological arguments, the limitations of the Kalām argument, and some other stuff as well. Jonathan Sanford also makes some important points in his reply, which follows my talk.
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Video of Science and Faith Conference now online
Last month I gave a talk at the Science and Faith Conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville, on the theme “Natural Theology Must Be Grounded in the Philosophy of Nature, Not in Natural Science.” The other main speakers were Stephen Barr, Michael Behe, William E. Carroll, Jay Richards, Alvin Plantinga, and Benjamin Wiker. My understanding is that a conference volume containing the papers is planned, but video of most of the talks is now available online here.
You’ll find my own talk below. (Keep in mind that the camera adds ten pounds. Lots of gin and pizza can add a few pounds too.) There’s a lot of new stuff in this paper. I argue that it is impossible in principle to get from the world to the God of classical theism unless we affirm the act/potency distinction and (therefore) the reality of immanent final causality. Along the way I deal with Greek atomism, Berkeley’s critique of matter, the nature of divine causality, the existential inertia thesis, the problem with Leibnizian cosmological arguments, the limitations of the Kalām argument, and some other stuff as well. Jonathan Sanford also makes some important points in his reply, which follows my talk.
You’ll find my own talk below. (Keep in mind that the camera adds ten pounds. Lots of gin and pizza can add a few pounds too.) There’s a lot of new stuff in this paper. I argue that it is impossible in principle to get from the world to the God of classical theism unless we affirm the act/potency distinction and (therefore) the reality of immanent final causality. Along the way I deal with Greek atomism, Berkeley’s critique of matter, the nature of divine causality, the existential inertia thesis, the problem with Leibnizian cosmological arguments, the limitations of the Kalām argument, and some other stuff as well. Jonathan Sanford also makes some important points in his reply, which follows my talk.
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