St. Thomas & Darwinism (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, February 19, 2011, 20:20 (5026 days ago) @ David Turell

This is an excellent discussion of Thomism, ID, and Darwinism. It certainly fits in with my reading of Ed Feser and Mortimer Adler. I am finding more and more that I am a Thomist at heart. By the way my wife attended HBU, the source U. of this paper, and graduated in the top 20 of her class of over 300.
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> http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=23-06-037-f-Grab some books from Thomas Aquinas. Adler was profoundly influenced by Thomist thought, as I had pointed out in my criticism of some of his extrapolations to the future. -As for the site, this claim is preposterous:-"For Darwinism suggests that any matter can potentially morph into any other arrangement of matter without the aid of an organizing principle. "-This is a gross mis-characterization. Evolutionary theory says that each generation of an organism is a micro-step towards some future state. Fossils, you, me--all of life living right now at this time are snapshots. We share characteristics, but just as language never stays the same over grand scales of time, neither do genomes, and thus phenotype. -Further, evolution as described by Pigliucci and other molecular biologists, identify the genome as the organizing principle. This wasn't available to Darwin, but the author conveniently ignores this. If the Central Dogma is true, then all genes map to specific proteins which all should manifest some phenotypical change in an organism. -I have to take my wife to work, but I'll return to this later.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"