The Metaphysics of Evolution

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He bases his arguments off the principles in Wuellner, S.J., Summary of Scholastic Principles, which he quotes copiously.

In his encyclical Humani Generis, Pope Pius XII stressed the importance of preserving the traditional Catholic approach to philosophy. In his work The Metaphysics of Evolution , Fr. Chad Ripperger demonstrates that the theory of evolution is incompatible with the metaphysics of the Catholic tradition.

Chapter 1

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one of the ways we know someone is mentally ill is by virtue of the fact that they do not act according to first principles, e.g. they contradict themselves or assert things which violate the principle of sufficient reason.

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the Cartesian mentality that one must be able to prove something for it to be true

I thought he said God is the 1st indemonstrable / self-evident principle.

Chapter 2

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The fundamental problem with evolution is that at root it is a misinterpretation of the hierarchy of being.

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two essentially different substances are incapable of having the same accidents

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While in the ontological order the type of being determines the actions, in the cognitive order, the actions reveal the substance.

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the human cognitive powers first know the accidents, then the essence, then the existence

existence not 1st

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one species can only cause its own species or likeness

This is why male/female not different species.

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De Ver., q. 2, a. 7

Fortin 2024 quoted?

Chapter 3

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The human intellect is designed to know ontological reality and therefore the principles that express ontological reality govern the operations of the intellect.

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when we could simply say that God created the thing immediately

but science seeks secondary causes

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even though God often uses secondary causes to bring about certain things, this is in the order of accidents rather than substances

An Initial Dictionary of Scholastic Terms and Principles

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Realism, Radical: a form of realism which does not distinguish between reality and the thing known.