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Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology

CHAPTER

The Dangerous Critique of Modern Science

I think the very dangerous critique you find, because I don't think it's actually a really good one. And what's kind of recognized at the heart of it is that there's right there's a teleology built into the nature of things right. Right there it's in consequentialism and proportionalism. It's teleological in a kind of extrinsic sense that is the subject consciously decides on goals that are to be realized. That movement towards the end that God has already put into that faculty of the soul. So when the acting subject as St. John Paul calls the moral agent here, when theacting subject decides to use that power of reproduction, the acting subject has to conform

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