https://vegasharmon.com/authors/nancy-pearcey/ Recent content in Nancy Pearcey on Vegas Harmon Hugo en Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/artifacts-are-defined-by-purpose/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/artifacts-are-defined-by-purpose/ What defines a human artifact is its goal or purpose. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/color-play-is-not-a-finished-work/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/color-play-is-not-a-finished-work/ There’s nothing wrong with [being excited about the interesting contrast of colors]… But that’s the kind of thing you enjoy when playing around with colors on your palette! It is not a finished work of art. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/did-mind-create-matter/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/did-mind-create-matter/ The core of the evolution controversy can thus be phrased in simple terms: Did mind create matter? Or did matter give rise to mind? https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/natural-theology-rests-on-what-we-know/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/natural-theology-rests-on-what-we-know/ Natural theology is not based on what we do not know. It is based on what we do know about living things. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/the-fact-value-split/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/the-fact-value-split/ Thus was born the fact/value split—the idea that humans can have genuine knowledge only in the realm of empirical facts. Morality was reduced to subjective preferences. The term values means literally whatever the individual happens to value.