Manipulating the Deposit of Faith
Some well-meaning Catholics are prone to advocate unapproved additions to the Deposit of Faith in response to attacks on that Deposit.
Our Planet: An Accident or Purposeful Design? (Guest: Jay Richards)
What is our place in the universe? Was planet earth created specifically for intelligent human life, or are we a cosmic accident? Today we’ll discover why earth is truly a “privileged planet.”
Why I Don’t Believe in a 6-Day Creation
A small but growing number of Catholics are embracing “young earth creationism,” which believes that the earth is only thousands of years old and was created in six 24-hour days. Why do I not join them?
Creation, Evolution, and Catholicism (Guest: Dr. Gerard Verschuuren)
Man has always wondered about where we have come from and how we were created. Religions have given various answers, and in recent centuries so has science. How does a Catholic evaluate these claims in light of our faith?
Faithful Reasoning and Reasonable Faith: Genetics at the Dawn of Humanity
How far can genetics take us in explaining what makes humans different from other animals?
Unlocking Genesis and Understanding Our Origins (Guest: Stephen Ray)
The Book of Genesis proposes answers to some of life’s most important—and most controversial—questions. But often readers misunderstand or miss those answers. How can we properly interpret this most important Biblical text?
Materialists Against the Material World
What is at stake in our current controversies regarding male and female? Nothing less than creation itself.
The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design (Guest: Jay Richards)
As Catholics we believe that God created everything out of nothing. But how He did that is the subject of intense debate among Catholics. We’ll talk today to a proponent of the theory of “Intelligent Design.”
Transcending the Evolution-Creation Debate
Recent scientific developments and philosophical interpretations of these developments can lead to a greater unity among Catholics debating evolution.
Theistic Evolution vs. Creationism: A Catholic Debate
Two Catholics – Dr. Douglas Darnowski (Professor of Molecular Biology) and Dr. Kevin Mark (Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation) – debate whether theistic evolution or creationism is most compatible with Catholic teaching.
In the Beginning Was…Gas?
Once belief in God goes, there is no end to the nonsense found to take His place.
A Catholic Defense of Evolutionary Science
God usually works slowly and predictably within the laws He Himself made. When we study the details that we know about the living world, we see that they are truly astounding and enthralling.
Confessions of a Creationist
Natural science is a great thing, and many great scientific advancements have helped us immensely. But evolutionary science is historically about as reliable as Faucian Bugle Science.
Has Science Run Its Course?
One year after scientists flipped the switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicist Lawrence Krauss fretted, “I worry whether we’ve come to the limits of empirical science.” His worry was not unfounded—in the last eleven years and at a cost of over $13B, the sole accomplishment of the LHC has been the confirmation of … Read more
Science and the Ascension of Christ
A legion of publishers will attest that Father Stanley Jaki (1924-2009) did not suffer fools gladly, and under that category he filed virtually all editors. He wrote in perfect English but with a discernible Hungarian syntax so that his footnotes could be longer than the main text, and verbs often were fugitive. His patience with … Read more
The Greater Mysteries in the Shadow of the Cross
In the space between the Cross and the Parousia, we are prone to wonder: What really happens when we die? What does it mean to be absent from the body and present with the Lord? What is heaven like? Will our deceased pets be there? At the resurrection, will we be raised at the age … Read more
The Wonders of Things Unseen
In 1977, George Lucas struck box-office gold with the epic adventure Star Wars. Mystic luminaries, anthropomorphic androids, light sabers, and computerized special effects captured the imaginations of audiences young and old alike. But perhaps the most lasting impression on viewers was Obi-wan Kenobi’s Delphic disclosure: “The Force is what gives a Jedi his power… It surrounds … Read more
Adam and Eve Are Myth, Really?
The parish priest told the class, with all the authority of a papal decree, that the creation account in Genesis, including the first human couple, was a myth. It was enough to raise not a few eyebrows, mine and my wife’s included. As a murmur began to build among the stunned attendees, a passage from … Read more
The Last Defender of Reason and the Human Body
G.K. Chesterton said, at the end of his fine biography The Dumb Ox, that Thomas Aquinas ought to be called “Saint Thomas of the Creation.” That is because Thomas defended the integrity, the beauty, the intelligibility, and the real and not notional existence of things, good old created things, fire and flood, flowers and grass, birds … Read more
I’ll See Your World and Raise You a Kosmos
Hubris is a theme that preoccupied the minds of the ancient Greeks. Man’s fate was unpredictable in a world governed by capricious deities, therefore one ought to temper one’s aspirations and avoid displeasing them in any way. Calamities could befall whole cities because of hubris in one man, as Sophocles dramatized in Oedipus Rex. In … Read more