Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part V
There is no folly quite like a man who asserts his independence while standing in a world he neither created nor comprehends, and whose inevitable departure is more mysterious than his humble arrival.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part III
Most Christians, including Paul, would say the Resurrection is the basis of our entire faith, but without creation, there can be no Incarnation or Resurrection.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part II
While scientific inquiry and advances have changed the world we live in, it does not have the power to penetrate even a centimeter into the primary question of God.
Astronomy for the Soul
Saint Paul said that no man would be excused from the knowledge of the true God, in that visible creation so clearly pointed to the invisible Creator.
Thoughts About the Mass for Care of Creation
Can Pope Leo XIV build bridges from Pope Francis’ arguably liberal mouthpiece encyclicals to something squarely Catholic?
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
