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How St. Benedict Created the Modern World

Source: ThinkingWest via YouTube.com Benedict of Nursia created a “guidebook” on monasticism. His rules led to the widespread proliferation of scientific study, formalized education, and hospitality for the sick/injured which developed into institutions that are still fundamental to society today. Check out our X account:   / thinkingwest   Join this channel to […]

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Christianity, Culture, Science & Society, Education

In Science, How “Assumed Atheism” Harms Religious Students

Source: Robert Shedinger via Evolution News Reprinted with permission Methodological naturalism is truly today a defining characteristic of science. Given this, are there any good reasons to make a meaningful distinction between methodological naturalism and metaphysical naturalism, as some still try to do? Since scientists can be religious believers, we […]

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Pope Benedict on Intelligent Design and the Dangers of Darwinian Materialism

Source: Bruce Chapman via evolutionnews.orgReprinted with permission Recalling the legacy of Pope Benedict XVI, I will always appreciate the fact that he recognized the dangers of Darwinian materialism, perhaps most strikingly in the homily he delivered at his installation in 2005. “We are not some casual and meaningless product of […]

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Which is More Scientific?

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 […]

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Articles, Catholic, Christianity & Science, Teaching

The ‘New Paradigm’ Can’t Deliver

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 […]

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Randy Isaac’s Critique Demonstrates the Power of Philosophical Bias [Part 1].

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 […]

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Randy Isaac’s Critique Demonstrates his Faith-Based Approach to Science [Part 2].

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 […]