Reductionistic Materialism

Take away the idea of a transcendent image shared by all humans equally, and you are left with a nightmare in which grading humans by race, condemning some and exalting others because of their pigmentation, becomes a definite option. https://t.co/0csTVGfsqc @realchrisrufo

— David Klinghoffer (@d_klinghoffer) October 16, 2020

The Decline of Holland

A problem of too much material success and wealth?

Sandro Magister: End of Christianity? A Cardinal Analyzes the Case of Holland

MacIntyre on Marxism

Church Life: Marxism and Religion

Understanding Persons: Materialism, Idealism, or...?

Feser on Denys Turner's Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait

Was Aquinas a Materialist?

I was thinking of buying the book but now I've lowered its priority on the wish list.

26 in 2006, how many now?

A list of 26 Species “Concepts”

Dr. Michael Waldstein - Overcoming the Mechanization of Nature

Materialists...

Post by Mark's Daily Apple.

Nagel on Scientific Materialism

Is Scientific Materialism “Almost Certainly False”? by John Horgan

A review of Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False.

Edward Feser has a series of posts on critics of Nagel; unfortunately he has not labelled his posts.


Related:

Higgs Boson

No Thomistic commentary on the "particle" in question? Seems like it would be an easy dialectical target.

CERN intro
Lab

The Higgs Boson Explained from PHD Comics on Vimeo.

The Atlantic Why the Higgs Boson Discovery Is Disappointing, According to the Smartest Man in the World Hyperphysics WIRED

An interview with Freeman Dyson

Counterpunch: An Interview With Freeman Dyson on the Origins of Life on Earth by SUZAN MAZUR

His homepage.

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Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society
NYT: The Civil Heretic
TED profile

Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
Thomas Nagel


Thomistic Circles Symposium on Creation and Modern Science (via Edward Feser)

Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

Heroes Not Zombies: The Science Delusion. Rupert Sheldrake

Robert P. Kraynak, Justice Without Foundations (via ML)

What is so strange about our age is that demands for respecting human rights and human dignity are increasing even as the foundations for those demands are disappearing. In particular, beliefs in man as a creature made in the image of God, or an animal with a rational soul, are being replaced by a scientific materialism that undermines what is noble and special about man, and by doctrines of relativism that deny the objective morality required to undergird human dignity. How do we account for the widening gap between metaphysics and morals today? How do we explain “justice without foundations” — a virtue that seems to exist like a table without legs, suspended in mid-air? What is holding up the central moral beliefs of our times?

MoJ: Patrick Brennan, Equality and Authority
Optimism is a Brain Defect

EvoPsych

MoMo, FaMo, MoFa, and FaFa By David Barash

VoxDay: Eco on Hawking