If you haven’t come across Mike Liccione (and I hadn’t until Scott Carson tipped me off), you don’t know what you’re missing: Classical theism is committed to the claim that God’s omnipotence and perfection are compatible with the evil in his world; but the same tradition precludes saying precisely how evil squares with God’s omnipotence… Continue reading

Via Tara Smith, a nice post for a Friday by one Greta Christina, on the Galileo Fallacy and its Gadfly Corrollary.

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Providing Ammunition Mark Shea is understandably dismayed by the…um…less than rigorous IQ of some African bishops. He writes, “Is the pool of candidates really so shallow that these weird guys are the best they can get? How can Africa produce so many great priests (I’ve never met a bad one) and yet wind up with… Continue reading

Larry Arnhart has a good post today, providing another example of why I think Aquinas and Darwin would have gotten along quite well: Under the influence of Aristotle’s biology, Thomas concluded that, although only human beings act from “free” judgment, other animals act from “estimative” judgment about what will satisfy their desires. Thus all animals… Continue reading