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RPE Sholars
Y8
| Scholar | Description |
|---|---|
| Fred Hoyle | Steady State Theory - universe continues forever without a beginning |
| George Lennaitre | Catholic Priest/Astronomer - universe expanded from a single point |
| Professor John Polkinghorne | Genesis and Big Bang compatible |
| Edwin Hubble | galaxies moving away - farthest galaxies moving faster than ones close to us, universe still expanded from a single point |
| Charles Darwin | theory of evolution |
| F.R. Tennant | Anthropic principle - unlikely science or evolution alone is responsible for intelligent life - must be God |
| John Locke | Hard determinist - sleeping man in locked room analogy |
| Ivan Pavlov | Hard determinist - Pavlovian Dog experiment |
| Clarence Darrow | lawyer of murderers, uses hard determinism to defend the, |
| Peter Van Inwagen | libertarian - branch in road analogy - free to pick either way |
| Jean Paul Satre | libertarian 'man is condemned to be free' |
| Thomas Hobbes | compatibilist - analogy of unimpeded river |
| James Rachels | compatibilist - free if caused by own desires |
| Patricia Churchland | compatibilist - 'who had most control?' |
| Isaac Newton | hard determinist - scientific laws predict how nature behaves, everything has a cause |