INTRODUCTiON I am an agnostic Jewish scientist who became a Catholic in his senior years, to the horror of many colleagues, the amazement of his
I’ve wondered, since my conversion, why some found it so much harder to believe in God than in Science. When I was younger in college,
“Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider
Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the
“Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful
At the Easter Vigil, the journey along the paths of sacred Scripture begins with the account of creation. This is the liturgy’s way of telling
“A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there
The witnesses of the Cross and Resurrection of Christ have handed on to the Church and to mankind a specific Gospel of suffering. The Redeemer
INTRODUCTION: PENANCE IS NOT A BRIBE TO GOD Lent is upon us. Interestingly, my Lenten penance and goals have changed since my conversion some 25
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as
[Feynman] “Do you know calculus?” [Wouk]”I admitted that I didn’t.” [Feynman]”You had better learn it…It’s the language God talks.” —Herman Wouk, conversation with Richard Feynman
A MOST IMPORTANT UNANSWERED QUESTION Here’s a question that science has asked and not yet definitively answered: “How did life on earth begin some 3.6
To answer the question ‘To be or not to be?’ we cannot turn to a science textbook. —Fr. Stanley Jaki, “The Limits of a Limitless
For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.—attributed to Albert Einstein BIOTECHNOLOGY: APPLICATIONS OF SCIENCE THAT AFFECT HUMANS In Part I
Non in dialectica placuit Deo salvum facere populum suum (“It is not by arguing that God chose to save His people”). —St. Ambrose troll noun
Turning to the relationship between religion and science, there has been a definite, though still fragile and provisional, movement towards a new and more nuanced
NOTE: The featured image, “Ballistik,” by Johann Petrejus (1547), is of the ballistic trajectory given by Buridan’s theory of impetus (momentum). A century elapsed between
Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider
“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science
The time has come,’ the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and
