A similar uneasiness with this kind of distinction has appeared more recently within Roman Catholic theology, due no doubt in part to a sense that the notion of a self-subsistent soul is non-scriptural and/or that the notion of God’s immediately creating each human soul does not fit easily into the continuum of living beings that… Continue reading The Problem of the Soul
I’m following up my Caedmon’s Hymn video with this presentation of Deor. This one took a lot longer to memorize. I wasn’t going to dress in period costume, but it was fun to work simple wood structures into the background….
Here again, scientific work on the story of life has shown that it is a narrative permeated with stochastic processes governed primarily by serendipity. To put it another way, evolution is a sequence of chance events, a series of accidental intersections of two causal chains. For instance, a recent scientific paper published in the prestigious… Continue reading Aquinas, Evolution and Double Agency
Do corporate recruiters have to take an illiteracy test for their jobs? In the past couple of weeks I’ve received 4 pitch emails from HR ‘specialists’ claiming they’ve reviewed my resume at Monster and telling me that I would be a good fit with companies like Fidelity and Aflac. Seriously. Do they even bother to… Continue reading They Pay People to Do This
Christopher Lee turned 90 on May 27th, and I had a chance to do a little video Q&A with him to celebrate.
