Christianity and science, contrary to some narratives, are in fact complementary by nature. Indeed it was the Catholic Church which founded the modern university system of education that led to many scientific discoveries that today we take for granted. The impetus was to seek to understand the objective truth and beauty of the world around us, and in so doing to come to a deeper understanding of both the Creator and his work of creation.
Source: Jonathan Pageau via YouTube.com. Jonathan Pageau: “In this video, I interview Stephen Meyer about evolution, intelligent design, Darwinianism, the advent of the biological information age, and how it changed the debate about the origins of life. We discuss the questions of what life and mind are, and how pattern […]
Source: Robert Shedinger via evolutionnews.org Reprinted with permission. Evoution News & Science Today: Editor’s note: We are delighted to present an excerpt from the new book by Dr. Shedinger, Darwin’s Bluff: The Mystery of the Book Darwin Never Finished. This article is adapted from Chapter 3. Aside from proposing a naturalistic […]
Source: Kevin Schmiesing via thepublicdiscourse.com Reprinted with permission. If sexual attraction is one powerful force that God built into the world to counteract the individual’s inclination to self-absorption, then the combination of technological and cultural assaults on this urge doesn’t threaten only the formation of families, the basic unit of […]
Source: The Kolbe Centre for the Study of Creation via YouTube.com. Definition of Science: “The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment”. https://www.kolbecenter.org – “Today we are often told that molecules turned into men […]
Source: 60 Minutes via YouTube.com Bill Whitaker reports on the unexplained healings that have occurred at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in the south of France, and the team of world-renowned doctors and researchers who investigate the claims of cures. #60Minutes #Religion #news Quote from 60 Minutes’ YouTube […]
Source: Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek via thecatholicthing.org. Reprinted with permission. Since the 1960s, progressive Catholics have promoted a new morality to replace older, normative approaches that they believe foster guilt and exclusion. Prominent cardinals and bishops have embraced this “New Paradigm” and are using the international synodal process to spread […]
Source: John Stonesstreet & Kasey Leander via Breakpoint.org Copyright2022 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission. Recently, an impressive development in embryology was reported by the Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science. Using only stem cells, without the presence of sperm, eggs, or even a womb, researchers successfully created […]
Source: ID THE FUTURE via idthefuture.comReprinted with permission Today’s ID the Future brings the first part of a friendly debate/discussion between Lehigh University biologist and intelligent design proponent Michael Behe and Catholic theologian Matthew Ramage. Led by Philosophy for the People podcast host Pat Flynn, Behe starts by noting that he is […]
Source: Discovery Science via youtube.com Historian of science Michael Keas critiques the idea of “scientism,” the claim that only science (not religion) is reasonable. He explains how this idea is based on fake stories about Christianity being at war with science in history. According to Keas, scientism also ignores evidence […]
Source: Dr. Brian Miller via evolutionnews.org. Reprinted with permission. Editor’s note: See also, “Is Information in DNA “Abstract”? Physicist Randy Isaac Responds.” Physicist Randy Isaac recently wrote a critique of our book The Mystery of Life’s Origin: The Continuing Controversy, arguing that it fails to persuasively demonstrate that life could not have originated […]
Source: Dr. Brian Miller via evolutionnews.org. Reprinted with permission. In my previous article, I described how Randy Isaac’s critique of The Mystery of Life’s Origin: The Continuing Controversy failed to honestly engage with Jonathan Wells’s analysis of how recent textbooks misrepresent the relevance of the Miller-Urey experiment, or with James Tour’s exposé on the state of […]
Source: Anthony Esolen via crisismagazine.com. Reprinted with permission. Recently, a radio talk show host for the Australian Broadcasting Company invited a Catholic professor whose field is the New Testament to speak about the stories surrounding the birth of Jesus. The host, himself not a believer, was delighted with the show and […]