The Current Status of Family Life and Sex Education in the Public Schools of Illinois: A Rebuttal

O'Rourke, Matthew; O'Rourke, Diane

doi:10.1111/j.1746-1561.1973.tb01897.x

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“…An Aristotelian, like myself, can easily look at modern evolution and analyze it directly in terms of types of actuality that precede the evolutionary potentials of animals. Although I disagree with her theory, this is exactly what O'Rourke, another Aristotelian, attempts to do in locating principles of evolutionary modification within some power of the genotype of the species . Further, there is ultimately a great deal of difference between the last two distinctions in Depew's final quote – whether life arises from non‐life is very different from whether it is ‘reduced’ to it.…”

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Evolutionary Biology and Classical Teleological Arguments for God's Existence

Rooney

2013

The Heythrop Journal

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Much has been made of how Darwinian thinking destroyed proofs for the existence of God from ‘design’ in the universe. I challenge that prevailing view by looking closely at classical ‘teleological’ arguments for the existence of God. One version championed by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas stems from how chance is not a sufficient kind of ultimate explanation of the universe. In the course of constructing this argument, I argue that the classical understanding of teleology is no less necessary in modern Darwinian biology than it was in Aristotle's time. In fact, modern biology strengthens the claims that teleological arguments make by vindicating many of their key features. As a consequence, I show how Aristotle and Aquinas' teleological argument for an intelligent First Cause remains valid.

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Section: The Second Premise – Intelligent Teleology?mentioning

confidence: 83%

Evolutionary Biology and Classical Teleological Arguments for God's Existence

Rooney

2013

The Heythrop Journal

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The Current Status of Family Life and Sex Education in the Public Schools of Illinois: A Rebuttal

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Evolutionary Biology and Classical Teleological Arguments for God's Existence

Evolutionary Biology and Classical Teleological Arguments for God's Existence

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