Maxwell

Engraving of the great Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) by G. J. Stodart from a photograph by Fergus of Greenock. Maxwell was a devout Presbyterian, and formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, bringing together for the first time electricity, magnetism, and light as manifestations of the same phenomenon. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics. His contributions to the science are considered by many to be of the same magnitude as those of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. [public domain / Wikimedia Commons]

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PHILOSOPHY

GENERAL / EPISTEMOLOGY / PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

The Relationship Between Christianity and Philosophy (vs. Dr. E.L. Hamilton) [10-2-02] *

The Influence of William of Ockham and Nominalism on Martin Luther and Early Protestant Thought [10-3-02] *

A Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness, and the Soul Consistent With Christianity (+ Part Two) [3-29-03] *

Catholics and Reason: Reply to Certain Misrepresentations of Catholic Apologetics and Philosophy [1-20-04] *

Cardinal Newman’s Philosophical & Epistemological Commitments [10-19-04]

Theological / Epistemological “Either/Or” Reasoning and C.S. Lewis’s “True Myth” [7-5-05] *

Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI and Cardinal Newman: Relationship to Traditional, Neo-Scholastic Thomism [5-5-06] *

Profound Mysteries of the Faith (Like God’s Timelessness) and Their Relationship To Reason [5-22-08] *

Dialogue on the Relationship of Reason, Logic, and Supernatural Faith, with a Christian “Pluralist” (i.e., Theological Liberal) [1-19-10] *

Must Christianity be Empirically Falsifiable?: in Order to be Rationally Held? Positivist Myths and Fallacies Debunked by Philosophers and Mathematicians [7-14-10]

Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman on the Nature and Pursuit of Truth [4-19-11; re-posted to Facebook on 1-31-17]

Calvinist Dialogues with Ghost of Plato [10-31-11]

Pascal on Biblical Paradox vs. False Dichotomies [12-29-11]

Myths About the Murder of the Philosopher, Hypatia [1-19-13]

Jesus’ Use of Socratic Method in His Teaching & Dialogues [8-16-15]

The Renaissance: Good or Bad Overall? [9-9-15]

Was Philosopher David Hume an Atheist? [10-7-15]

Dialogue: Religious Epistemology (with an Agnostic) [11-17-15]

Theist & Atheist Burdens of Proof [11-18-15]

On Mystery & Reason in Theology [4-5-16]

Is Christianity Unfalsifiable? Is Empiricism the Only True Knowledge? [5-6-17]

Science, Logic, & Mathematics All Start with Unproven and Unprovable (Unfalsifiable) Axioms [Facebook, 7-25-17]

THE PROBLEM OF EVIL / SUFFERING

Bible on Suffering & Hope in the Midst of It [1981]

The “Problem of Good”: Great Dialogue with an Atheist (vs. Mike Hardie) (+ Part Two) [6-5-01]

Christian Replies to the Argument From Evil (Free Will Defense): Is God Malevolent, Weak, or Non-Existent Because of the Existence of Evil and Suffering? [2002]

Dialogue on “Natural Evil” (Diseases, Hurricanes, Drought, etc.) [2-15-04]

Serious Christian Treatments of the Problem of Evil and Irrational Atheist Dismissals of Them (vs. John W. Loftus) [10-9-06] *

Some Christian Replies to the Problem of Evil as Set Forth by Atheists [10-10-06] *

Dialogue #2 with an Atheist on the Problem of Evil (vs. “drunken tune”) [10-11-06] *

Dialogue #3 with an Atheist on the Problem of Evil (vs. John W. Loftus) [10-11-06] *

Alvin Plantinga’s Decisive Refutation of the Atheist Use of the Problem of Evil as a Disproof of God’s Existence, Goodness, or Omnipotence [10-12-06]

Critique of Agnostic Ed Babinski’s Post on the “Emotional” Argument From Evil [10-23-06] *

Is the “Strong” Logical Argument From Evil Largely Discredited If Not Dead, Or Alive & Well? (Atheist Confusion) [11-26-06] *

“How Can God Order the Massacre of Innocents?” (Amalekites, etc.) [11-10-07]

The World’s Shortest Free Will Defense (FWD) Argument Against the Problem of Evil [3-24-08; re-posted to Facebook on 1-31-17]

The Devil’s Antics in Opposing Christians, and Suffering in the Christian Life [7-18-09; abridged and published in The Michigan Catholic]

The Oslo Massacre and the Irrationally Subjective Application of “Symbolic” Evil Acts in Order to Draw Unwarranted and Unjust Conclusions [7-28-11] *

Why Did a Perfect God Create an Imperfect World? [8-18-15]

Debates & Expositions on the Problem of Evil [compiled 5-18-16]

EDUCATION

On Teaching from a Classical Christian Perspective (Thomas G. Wilkes, M.A.) [1998] *

“Chronological Snobbery”: History of Ideas, Socratic Philosophy, Christian Worldview, Scientists and God (with John Kress) [May 2001] *

Response to Kevin Johnson’s Criticisms of Home-Schooling [7-12-05] *

Editorial Comment on Home-Schooling and the Dilapidated State of Public Education [1-3-09] *

THEISTIC ARGUMENTS

THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT (BIG BANG, ETC.)

A Variation of the First Way of Thomas Aquinas (+ Part II / Part III) (Dr. Dennis Bonnette) [1982]

How “Creation” Implies God (Dr. Dennis Bonnette) [1985]

Dialogue with an Atheist Philosophy Professor on the Kalam Cosmological Argument for God’s Existence and its Possible Alternatives (vs. Dr. Ted Drange) (+ Part Two) [5-25-01] *

Dialogue with an Atheist on Logical Positivism, and the Existence and Cause (or No Cause) of the Universe (vs. Steve Conifer) [Jan. 2002] *

Current Models in Cosmological Physics Concerning the Origin of the Universe (Dark Energy & Matter, Etc.), & Their Interaction With Metaphysics [1-4-07] *

Atheism: the Faith of “Atomism” [8-19-15]

Cosmological Argument for God (Resources) [10-23-15]

Exchanges with Atheists on Ultimate Origins [11-19-15]

Cause of the Big Bang: Atheist Geologist Challenged [4-21-17]

Atheists & Inherent “Omnipotent” Creative Qualities of Godless Matter [7-26-17]
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THE TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT (DESIGN)

Dialogue with Atheists on the Evolution of the Eye, Irreducible Complexity, and Intelligent Design (vs. Steve Conifer) [May 2001] *

Intelligent Design: Scientists’ Observations [6-5-02] *

Dialogue on Materialist Evolutionary Theory & Intelligent Design (including St. Augustine’s & St. Thomas Aquinas’s Views on Creation & Evolution) [11-22-02] *

Famed Atheist Champion Antony Flew Switches Over to Belief in a Deist God Studies in Flew’s Justification of His Change of Mind and the Predictable Reaction of Atheists [7-16-04] *

My Own “Expelled” Experience (Intelligent Design and Profoundly Closed Minds) [5-5-08] *

Teleological (Design) Argument for God (Resources) [10-27-15]

Dogmatic Materialist Scientists vs. Intelligent Design [10-29-15]

Atheists & Inherent “Omnipotent” Creative Qualities of Godless Matter [7-26-17]
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THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

The Ontological Argument for God’s Existence: “A concept greater than which first meets the eye” [3-10-03] *

The Ontological Argument for God’s Existence: A Discussion With Philosophy Grad Student Patrick [6-25-04] *

St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument Revisited [Group Discussion: 11-14-05] *

Ontological Argument for God (Resources) [10-23-15]

MISCELLANEOUS

Theistic Argument from Longing or Beauty: A Brief Presentation [3-27-08; posted to Facebook on 8-3-17]

Replying to Atheist Analytical Philosophy Word Games [9-26-15]

Dialogue with an Agnostic: God as a “Properly Basic Belief” [10-5-15]

Atheist Premise-Driven Misunderstandings of Theistic Arguments [10-10-15]

Non-Empirical “Basic” Warrant for Theism & Christianity [10-15-15]

Atheist Demands for “Empirical” Proofs of God [10-27-15]

15 Theistic Arguments (Copious Resources) [11-3-15]

Atheism & Atheology (Copious Resources) [11-5-15]

God: Historical Arguments (Copious Resources) [11-9-15]

Implicit (Extra-Empirical) Faith, According to John Henry Newman [12-18-15]

Argument for God from Desire: Atheist-Christian Dialogue [8-7-17]

SCIENCE

GALILEO

Galileo: The Myths and the Facts [5-11-06]

Why the Galileo Case Doesn’t Disprove Catholic Infallibility (vs. Ken Temple and Eric G.) [5-18-06]

Dialogue on the Galileo Fiasco and the State of Scientific and Astronomical Knowledge in 1633 (vs. Eric G.) [5-13-06]

Richard Dawkins & Double Standards of the “Religion vs. Science” Mentality / Galileo Redux [3-20-08]

“No One’s Perfect”: Scientific Errors of Galileo and 16th-17th Century Cosmologies [7-29-10]

The Galileo Fiasco & Catholic Infallibility (vs. Jon Curry) [8-11-10]

Cardinal Newman on Galileo and the Alleged Dogmatic Status of Geocentrism [6-16-11; re-posted to Facebook on 1-31-17]

Galileo, Bellarmine, & Scientific Method [10-20-15]

EARLY MODERN SCIENCE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO RELIGION

Early Protestant Hostility Towards Science [7-9-04]

Did St. Thomas Aquinas Accept Astrology? [5-30-06]

“Science vs. Religion” Chronicles: 16th-17th Century Astronomers’ Acceptance of Astrology (+ Part Two*) [5-25-06]

Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Philip Melanchthon Wax Astronomical and Geocentric, Oppose Copernicus [2-5-09]

Christianity: Crucial to the Origin of Science [8-1-10]

Christian Influence on Science: Master List of Scores of Bibliographical and Internet Resources (Links) [8-4-10]

33 Empiricist Christian Thinkers Before 1000 AD [8-5-10]

Who Killed Lavoisier: “Father of Chemistry”? [8-13-10]

Christians or Theists Founded 115 Scientific Fields [8-20-10]

John Calvin Assumes a Non-Spherical Earth & Severely Mocks Plato for Believing that the Earth is a Globe [9-4-12]

St. Augustine: Astrology is Absurd [9-4-15]

Catholics & Science #1: Hermann of Reichenau [10-21-15]

Catholics & Science #2: Adelard of Bath [10-21-15]

Science and Christianity (Copious Resources) [11-3-15]

Dialogue with an Agnostic on Catholicism and Science [9-12-16]

A List of 244 Priest-Scientists (Angelo Stagnaro, National Catholic Register, 11-29-16)

A Short List of [152] Lay Catholic Scientists (Angelo Stagnaro, National Catholic Register, 12-30-16)

Science, Logic, & Mathematics All Start with Unproven and Unprovable (Unfalsifiable) Axioms [Facebook, 7-25-17]

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE / SCIENTIFIC METHOD

Dialogue with an Atheist on the Relationship of Christianity and Metaphysics to the Scientific Method (vs. Sue Strandberg) [7-19-01] *

Philosophy of Science & the Impossibility of Epistemological “Neutrality” (Esp. Within Materialist or Logical Positivist Presuppositional Frameworks) [4-4-03] *

The Philosophical Impossibility of Darwinian Naturalistic Evolution (Dr. Dennis Bonnette) [2008] *

Reflections on the Pseudo-Science & Ethics of Social Darwinism & Its Use as a Justification for the Nazi Holocaust [7-7-10] *

Albert Einstein’s “Cosmic Religion”: In His Own Words [originally 2-17-03; expanded greatly on 8-26-10]

Atheist French, Soviet, & Chinese Executions of Scientists [10-22-15]
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Cause of the Big Bang: Atheist Geologist Challenged [4-21-17]

Is Christianity Unfalsifiable? Is Empiricism the Only True Knowledge? [5-6-17]
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Science, Logic, & Mathematics All Start with Unproven and Unprovable (Unfalsifiable) Axioms [Facebook, 7-25-17]

BIBLE, CHRISTIANITY, AND SCIENCE ISSUES

Old Earth, Flood Geology, Local Flood, & Uniformitarianism (vs. Kevin Rice) [5-25-04; many defunct links removed and new ones added: 5-10-17]

Dialogue on Biblical Cosmology (vs. Matthew Green) (+ Part Two) [9-11-06] *

Flat Earth: Biblical Teaching? (vs. Ed Babinski) [9-17-06]

Atheist Myths: “Christianity vs. Science & Reason” (vs. “drunkentune”) [1-3-07]

Did Darwin Prove Genesis a Fairy Tale? (Dr. Dennis Bonnette) [2007]
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Must Human Evolution Contradict Genesis? (Dr. Dennis Bonnette) [2007]
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Adam and Eve, Cain, Abel, and Noah as Historical Figures [2-20-08]

In (Partial) Defense of William Jennings Bryan (Famous “Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial” of 1925) [6-6-09]

Adam and Eve: Defense of Their Literal Existence as the Primal Human Couple, by Catholic Philosopher, Dr. Dennis Bonnette [7-21-09] *

Catholicism and Evolution / Charles Darwin’s Religious Beliefs [8-19-09]

Reply to Atheist Scientist Jerry Coyne: Are Science and Religion Utterly Incompatible? [7-13-10]

Extraterrestrial Life and the Catholic Church: Collection of Links [8-20-10] *

Young Earth Creationism of Notable Anti-Catholic Protestants [9-18-10]

Surveys of Current Religious Beliefs of Scientists [10-18-10]

Books by Dave Armstrong: Science and Christianity: Close Partners or Mortal Enemies? [10-20-10]

Typical “Science vs. Catholicism” Criticisms (and Myths) from an Agnostic Scientist Refuted [7-29-11]

Fr. Robert Barron Denies that Adam Was a “Literal Figure” [9-23-11]

Modern Biology and Original Sin (+ Part 2) (Dr. Edward Feser) [9-23-11]

Defending the Literal, Historical Adam of the Genesis Account (vs. Eric S. Giunta) [9-25-11]

Dr. Dennis Bonnette Debunks the Argument Against Adam and Eve from Molecular Biologists [4-19-12] *

Adam & Eve of Genesis: Historical & the Primal Human Pair? (vs. Bishop Robert Barron) [11-28-13]

Question on the Nature and Extent of Noah’s Flood (as Understood in Catholicism) and My Reply [Facebook, 4-7-14]

Time to Abandon the Genesis Story? [Dr. Dennis Bonnette, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, 7-10-14]

Origin of the Human Species (3rd edition, 2014, by Dr. Dennis Bonnette)

Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato si: A Beautiful and Profoundly Wise Statement of Christian Environmentalism and Theology of Creation [6-18-15]

Critique of Chris Ferrara’s Radical Reactionary Hit-Piece in Opposition to Pope Francis’ Christian Environmentalism [6-20-15]

Noah’s Flood & Catholicism: Basic Facts [8-18-15]

Adam & Eve & Original Sin: Disproven by Science? [9-7-15]

Only Ignoramuses Believe in Adam & Eve? [9-9-15]

Do Carnivores on the Ark Disprove Christianity? [9-10-15]

Dialogue with an Atheist on Evolution [9-17-15]

Simultaneously Dumb & Smart Christians, Atheists, & Scientists [10-9-15]

My Claims Regarding Piltdown Man & the Scopes Trial Twisted [10-10-15]

Science and Christianity (Copious Resources) [11-3-15]

A List of 244 Priest-Scientists (Angelo Stagnaro, National Catholic Register, 11-29-16)

Is Christianity Unfalsifiable? Is Empiricism the Only True Knowledge? [5-6-17]

Genesis Contradictory (?) Creation Accounts & Hebrew Time: + Refutation of a Clueless Atheist “Biblical Contradiction” [5-11-17]

Dialogue with Philosopher Dr. Lydia McGrew on Adam and Eve and the Polygenism vs. Monogenism Genetics Issue [Facebook, 5-11-17]

Science, Logic, & Mathematics All Start with Unproven and Unprovable (Unfalsifiable) Axioms [Facebook, 7-25-17]

Atheists & Inherent “Omnipotent” Creative Qualities of Godless Matter [7-26-17]

CLIMATE CHANGE / GLOBAL WARMING ISSUE

Article on the 29% Growth of the Polar Ice Cap in 2013 [which Al Gore predicted in 2008 would be nonexistent in 2013] and Discussion [Facebook, 12-14-13]

Discussion on Global Warming and Particularly the Melting of Polar Ice Caps and Al Gore’s False Predictions [Facebook, 7-13-15]

THE KOOKY FUNDAMENTALIST REVIVAL OF GEOCENTRISM

Geocentrism Debunked

(comprehensive website run by David Palm)

Exchanges With Robert Sungenis on Geocentrism and Perceived Personal Attacks [1-15-09] *

Does the Church Support Robert Sungenis’ Novel Theories? (Jonathan Field) (+ Part Two) [11-8-10] *

My Refusal to Wrangle With Robert Sungenis Over Geocentrism and a Supposedly 10,000-Year-Old, Non-Rotating Earth [11-15-10] *

Robert Sungenis’ Responses to My Critiques Regarding God’s Characteristics and Geocentrism (with My Replies) [11-19-10] *

Geocentrism: Not at All an Infallible Dogma of the Catholic Church (David Palm and “Jordanes”) [11-20-10] *

Response (in Words and Actions) to the Vehement Criticisms of Geocentrists “johnmartin” and “juscot” [12-10-10] *

Cardinal Newman on Galileo and the Alleged Dogmatic Status of Geocentrism [6-16-11; re-posted to Facebook on 1-31-17]

Formal Science Education of Rick DeLano, Producer of the Geocentrist Film, The Principle [1-11-14]

Actress Kate Mulgrew Says she Was Duped Regarding her Narration of the Geocentrist Film, The Principle [Karl Keating article and Facebook discussion and media links, 4-8-14]

My 5-Star Amazon Review of Karl Keating’s The New Geocentrists (2-11-15) (+ Facebook discussion)

MIRACLES

Silly Atheist and Agnostic Arguments Against the Resurrection (and Miracles) [4-2-04] *

Jeremy Hand: Miraculous Recovery from “Brain Death” After Anointing With Holy Oil? [6-20-06] *

Biblical and Historical Evidences for Raising the Dead [9-24-07; posted to Facebook on 8-22-17]

James White Readily Grants Possible Legitimacy to the Flimsiest “Evidence” That Padre Pio Faked His Stigmata [10-25-07] *

Exchange on Miracles & Hyper-Rationalism [12-7-15]

Dialogues with Atheists on Miracles [6-8-16]

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