Notes for Later

 Vertical v Horizontal Causation 

Purpose - Intention - Causality

That without potential that actualizes must be a form of a God (first cause, outside of time and space). All other matter first has potential, then acts (movement -- entropy). Aquinas

Life--Survival of the fittest (evolution by natural selection) is the same thing as the death and suffering of the weakest.

In the face of the fact that 99.9% of species that once existed on earth has gone extinct due to desease or other forms of, surely painful, destruction. Religion assumes that we alone are special

Time: Parmenides wondered, if the future is not yet and the past is not anymore, how could events pass from future to present to past?He reasoned that, if the future is real, then it is real now; and, if what is real now is only what is present, the future is not real. So, if the future is not real, then the occurrence of any present event is a case of something inexplicably coming from nothing.