Catholic Answers Live on Elements and then a Wokeism Conference

I'm going to San Diego to do a radio show and give a talk on Wokeism.

I’m taking a short trip over the weekend to San Diego. First, I will be on the set of Catholic Answers Live (live) on Friday to do a faith and science hour. I am going to talk about my recent thesis adventure on the elements. (See Engaging Atheism home page for the series.) It may not seem like the most exciting endeavor in the world to ask whether Thomas Aquinas’s view of elements and their blending still applies to the elements as we understand them today on the periodic table, but I argue that it is exciting! I’m not on a mission to prove that Aquinas was right just because he is a saint and doctor of the Catholic Church, although that is very important. My interest is, like many natural philosophers, related to the hylomorphic view of nature, one where bodies are matter and form composites. Aquinas adopted Aristotle’s view because he thought it was right.

The way I see it, if this is the right view of nature, then there must exist the most fundamental bodies that are prime (formles…