Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008
[This entry has also been posted to my other blog, To See a World in a Grain of Sand.] Those who belong to that school of thought labeled Intelligent Design typically describe themselves as Christian, sometimes Jewish, and sometimes there is only an impression of a vague Theism. In any case, most of these thinkers [...]
Categories: Biological evolution, Christian in the universe of Einstein, intelligent design, religion and science
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
A while ago I’d read that some wildlife biologists had speculated that there’s a regulatory gene for size in grizzly bears and that the mother could change the setting on that gene, setting it to BIG when there was plenty of food and grizzlies were dominant and to a lesser setting when the conditions were [...]
Categories: Biological evolution, Brain sciences, Christian in the universe of Einstein, Mind, Moral freedom, St. Thomas Aquinas, philosophy, religion and science
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Today, August 21, is the feast-day of St. Pius X who was Pope from 1903-1914. A saintly man for sure, he was born into poverty and lived an ascetic and morally disciplined life, being greatly concerned about pastoral issues. He was greatly concerned with the needs of ordinary Catholics and also the needs of the [...]
Categories: Catholic theology, Christian in the universe of Einstein, Christian theology, Pope Benedict XVI, St. Thomas Aquinas, philosophy, religion and science
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
In two earlier entries, The Christian in the Universe of Einstein: 2. God as the Creator of Truths and The Christian in the Universe of Einstein: 2. What is Mathematics?, I argued that God creates truths, though not in the sense that He could have created contradictions or the ‘truth’ of “1 + 1 = [...]
Categories: Christian in the universe of Einstein, Christian theology, Mind, St. Thomas Aquinas, philosophy, religion and science
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
[There's little new in this entry but I'm trying to restate some of my basic ideas in as simple and clear a form as possible as I move towards an enlargement -- God willing -- of my understanding of this world, this phase of Creation. I plan on posting an entry before month-end which will [...]
Categories: Christian in the universe of Einstein, Etienne Gilson, philosophy
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Some of my writings are available for free download from Acts of Being: 2 articles, samples of 3 novels, and one complete book on human knowledge. Contact me at loydf at loydfueston.com if you’d like to read the entirety of one of those novels. Short articles I have two articles available for downloading. One discusses [...]
Categories: Marketing my Books, literature, philosophy
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Einstein, Feynman, and perhaps other major scientists have made the claim that “philosophers of science” have contributed nothing that’s useful to scientists. While not sure exactly what the contexts of their comments really were, I’d generally say in response, “Yes, and why would anyone expect anything different?” I would think philosophers of science move in [...]
Categories: Brain sciences, Christian in the universe of Einstein, Mind, Pope Benedict XVI, St. Thomas Aquinas, mathematical physics, mathematics, philosophy, relativity theory, religion and science, science
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