The layman’s understanding of the world can’t be considered mere guesswork—it’s the necessary starting point for understanding reality.
Author: S. Adam Seagrave (S. Adam Seagrave)
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Evolution and the Eye Test: A Response to My Critics
Darwin rejected a theory of knowledge that best accords with the common experience of the expert and the layman: a process of induction or intuition whereby sense impressions become memories, and memories become experience.
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Evolution and the Eye Test
Darwin’s evolutionary theory rests on a problematic premise: Our senses don’t tell us the truth about nature.
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Abortion and Our “Moral Sense”
When intellectual arguments against abortion fail to persuade, recourse must be had to images and strategies that awake what David Hume considered our “moral sense.”
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Civil Marriage: The View from a State of Nature
Governments don’t legally recognize a certain type of relationship because they are suckers for romance; they do so because they are understandably afraid of the potentially destructive consequences of such romance.