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Home: Core Subjects: Science Core Subjects: ScienceArticles:Are Catholics Creationists? - George Sim JohnstonToday, the Pope Pius V University in Rome will be the setting for a day-long conference with the arresting title, “The Scientific Impossibility of Evolution.” New Read more... 'A Day Without Yesterday': Georges Lemaitre & the Big Bang - MARK MIDBONIn January 1933, the Belgian mathematician and Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre traveled with Albert Einstein to California for a series of seminars. After the Belgian detailed his Big Bang theory, Einstein stood up applauded, and said, “This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I have ever listened.” Popular Read more... Apes “R” Not Us: Catholics & the Debate Over Evolution - George Sim JohnstonCatholics should not hesitate to get involved in the debate over Darwin’s theory, especially since they occupy a reasonable middle ground between scientific and biblical fundamentalists. Nor should we leave popular science writing to people like Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins, whose charming expositions mask a fierce hostility to religion. These writers are masters of what Darwin called the “slow and silent side attacks” against Christianity. Popular Read more... A man who believes in Darwin as fervently as he hates God - Rod LiddleIn the downstairs loo of Richard Dawkins’s house in Oxford there’s a framed award from the Royal Society; to remind visitors, or maybe Richard himself, that here lives a man of some purpose, some gravitas and intellectual clout. Read more... A Visual Apologetic for Life - Mark EarleyWhen Michelangelo carved the beauty of the human form in marble, he knew that true art is “but a shadow of the divine perfection.” Read more... Alpha and Omega: Reconciling Science and Faith - Archbishop Charles J. ChaputI believe the Holy Father is right when he says that no fundamental conflict can exist between science and religious faith, whatever the appearance to the contrary. Read more... An Evening with Darwin in New York - George Sim JohnstonThe glibness of the recent Darwin exhibit at the Museum of Natural History in New York shows off the fact that Darwinism has become an officially sanctioned orthodoxy, an orthodoxy which is to be promoted and defended at all costs. Read more... Aquinas and the Big Bang - William E. CarrollAquinas would have no difficulty accepting Big Bang cosmology, even with its recent variations, while also affirming the doctrine of creation out of nothing. He would, of course, distinguish between advances in cosmology and the philosophical and theological reflections on these advances. Read more... Are Science and Religion Really Enemies? - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.One subject I often end up discussing with friends and acquaintances is the apparent conflict between religion and science. Read more... Beyond the Death of God - PATRICK GLYNNWhile our attention has been riveted on the momentous political and ideological realignments that mark the century's end, we have all but overlooked a quiet revolution in scientific understanding with far more radical implications for the modern world view. Read more... Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 09-Nov-2009 - 15:51:52
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