To date, it seems that Catholics have flown a white flag to scientism, especially when it comes to human evolution.\u00a0\u00a0Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., strikes back, in a 2018 article appearing in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.\u00a0\u00a0This well-trained biologist delivers a blistering attack on the anti-essentialism of science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Strangely, he locates an essence for the human in a 2016 book by two modern academics.\u00a0\u00a0Why Only Us?<\/em>\u00a0is authored by two Harvard professors, Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky.\u00a0\u00a0The first works on computer models for language.\u00a0\u00a0The second is a famously political linguist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Comments are in order. However, in a blink of an eye for the world of academics, Marie George flexes her erudition by taking Austriaco to task on his interpretations of Thomas Aquinas. She hands the Dominican a tar baby of scholastic qualifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Academic quarrels do not get better than this. Instead of one commentary, three are necessary, one for Marie George, one for Nicanor Austriaco OP, plus one for Berwick and Chomsky.\u00a0\u00a0The category-based nested form<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0the first singularity<\/em>\u00a0offer insights not available to any of these authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christians need not defend Adam against Darwinism.\u00a0\u00a0Rather, Christians have an option that reveals Adam within an evolutionary framework.\u00a0\u00a0This is the drama of\u00a0An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0This is the hypothesis of the first singularity. Our current Lebenswelt<\/em>\u00a0is not\u00a0the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The following are available at www.smashwords.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Comments on Nicanor Austriaco\u2019s Essay (2018) “Adam After Darwin”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Comments on Marie George\u2019s Essay (2020) “Aquinas\u2019s Teachings on Concepts and Words”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Comments on Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky\u2019s Book (2016) \u201cWhy Only Us?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To date, it seems that Catholics have flown a white flag to scientism, especially when it comes to human evolution.\u00a0\u00a0Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., strikes back, in a 2018 article appearing in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.\u00a0\u00a0This well-trained biologist delivers a blistering attack on the anti-essentialism of science. Strangely, he locates an essence for the human in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,6],"tags":[64,67,69,68,70,66,65,41,71,29,34,33],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-current-lebenswelt","category-our-current-lebenswelt-is-not-the-lebenswelt-that-we-evolved-in","category-the-science-of-original-sin","tag-adam-and-eve","tag-austriaco","tag-berwick","tag-bible","tag-chomsky","tag-esse","tag-essence","tag-evolution-creation","tag-evolution-of-talk","tag-first-singularity","tag-peirce","tag-thomism"],"yoast_head":"\n