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Putting dispositional essentialism into an organic format
Dispositional essentialism offers a dynamical view of causal process in which real substances have been ascribed the dispositional properties or propensities to lawfully (though order and orientation) generate new substances in a predictive series of events. Here, substance and disposition … Continue reading
Some Clues to a New Church Science
Scientist/theologian Emanuel Swedenborg claimed that one could learn the secrets of spiritual salvation (regeneration) from studying the stages of the growth of a tree. He also claimed that one could understand the organization of the Spiritual World and God’s Heaven … Continue reading
Love and the Quantum Physicist
There once was a physicist named Phil who loved to contemplate on the significance of the discoveries made in quantum physics concerning fundamental reality. Phil had always concerned himself with fundamental issues but he felt he now needed to form … Continue reading