Catholics and Intelligent Design, Part Two

This is the second in a series responding to certain Catholic critics of intelligent design. In this installment, we discuss the (proper and improper) role of philosophy in Christian theology, and then explore how Thomas Aquinas uses and modifies Aristotle's distinction between nature and art. This may seem like an obscure issue, but it's actually central to this debate. Finally, by way of contrast, we consider Robert Boyle, a Protestant "teleo-mechanist" who was a staunch critic of A...