William Carroll Goes to China...

Thomas Aquinas in China (via Thomistica)

William Carroll Reviews Edward Feser's Book on Metaphysics

Scholastic Metaphysics: Edward Feser’s Introduction

Upcoming William Carroll Talk

Post by Province of Saint Joseph: Dominican Friars of the Order of Preachers.

Two by William Carroll

On the heels of the last post... The Limits of Life: Biology and the Philosophy of Nature
The Genesis Machine: Physics and Creation

William Carroll on Evolution

Exploring evolution at the Rimini Meeting (via OP website)

More from the Science and Faith Conference

Edward Feser & Jonathan Sanford - Science and Faith Conference


Stephen Barr & Alexander Sich - Science and Faith Conference


Michael Behe & Daniel Kuebler - Science and Faith Conference


Jay Richards & Mark Ryland - Science and Faith Conference


(How is the Institute for the Study of Nature doing?)

More from FUS.

Unfortunately, no video is available for Dr. Carroll's presentation? (There is video of the response.) But I did find the following:

William Carroll: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God


William Carroll: "The Scientific Revolution and Discourse on Science-and-Religion"

Aquinas and the Big Bang by WILLIAM E. CARROLL

Adhering to the traditional reading of Genesis and the doctrinal proclamation of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), Aquinas believed that the universe had a temporal beginning. Aristotle, he thought, was wrong to think otherwise. But Aquinas argued that, on the basis of reason alone, one could not know whether the universe is eternal. Furthermore, if there were an eternal universe it still would be a created universe. To affirm, on the basis of faith, that the universe has a temporal beginning involves no contradiction with what the natural sciences can proclaim, since on their own they leave this question unresolved. Hawking's denial of an absolute beginning to time, while also affirming a finite past, involves complicated speculation about quantum gravity, which itself remains not fully worked out. Regardless of the intelligibility of Hawking's scientific claims, the conclusions about creation he and others draw from them are false.


The Big Bang described by modern cosmologists is a change, not a creation; the natural sciences do not themselves provide an account for the ultimate origin of all things. Apologists for the Christian doctrine of creation ought not to think that the initial "singularity" of traditional Big Bang cosmology offers scientific confirmation of their view. Nor ought those who reject the doctrine of creation think that recent variations in Big Bang cosmology support their view. Even if the universe were the result of the fluctuation of a primal vacuum, it would not be a self-creating universe. The need to explain the existence of things does not disappear. Contrary to the claim that the universe described by contemporary cosmology leaves nothing for a creator to do, were a creator not causing all that is, there would be nothing done.

The Sperm of Sea Urchins and the Directedness of Natural Processes by William Carroll