Catholic and Enjoying It!
Like the immortal tendency of materialists who try to prove that all minds (but theirs, while they are making the argument) are accidental epiphenomena of the meaningless movements of matter and energy…
or the “sawing off the branch I’m sitting on” brilliance of the materialist who tries to persuade you to change your mind and believe that the power to change your mind is a mere illusion….
I give you the latest bit of mummery from the All Explaining Theory of Everything Factory that is the Darwin Mythos. Up to bat today, the argument advanced by some Darwin Worshippers that our brains evolved, not to find truth, but to win arguments. And you can know their argument is true because….. um.
Zac Alstin, an actual real philosopher does the latest autopsy on yet another attempt by a technician with a smattering of philosophy to speak outside his field of competence under the illusion that a lab coat is a priestly vestment conferring the power to pronounce on The Meaning of It All.
The sooner materialists give up their crude reductionism and consider the possibility that real philosophers–and especially Thomists–have something to teach them, the sooner we will put these unfortunate displays of high school cafeteria sophomore philosophy flatulence behind us.
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