The Compatibility of Evolution and Thomistic Metaphysics: A Reply to Dennis F. Polis

The Compatibility of Evolution and Thomistic Metaphysics: A Reply to Dennis F. Polis

In this article the author discusses Dennis F. Polis’ defense of the compatibility of biological evolution and Thomistic metaphysics. Some of Polis’ methodological and metaphysical arguments are examined and it is explained why they are unfaithful to the Thomistic tradition of metaphysics. There is...

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Main Author: Robert A. Delfino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Étienne Gilson Society 2021-03-01
Series:Studia Gilsoniana
Subjects:
god
thomism
thomas aquinas
thomistic metaphysics
natural philosophy
biological evolution
theistic evolution
science
scientific methodology
relationship of the sciences
abstraction
species
nature
essence
divine idea
exemplar cause
ens rationis
substance
accident
substantial form
nature considered absolutely
real distinction between being and essence
relativism
realism
nominalism
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