We are always only one generation away from atheism. Paganism is faith in something, or somethings outside of a person. Atheism is faith in nothing
Slowly but surely, philosopher Edward Feser contends, philosophers of science are rediscovering a need for teleology in the universe over three and a half centuries
Western society has progressively embraced secularism over time. Two big problems have been created as a result: authentic faith has been (and continues to be)
What x-men comic says about Genetic Enhancement
[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
The unselfish act of donating ones’ organs and/or body after death is a great gesture of impoverishing oneself before one’s Maker while making a life-giving
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
Researchers are now “coaxing” human stem cells, in the lab, to grow into beings that are similar to a human embryo. There are innumerable questions
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
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
An immense scientific study has pulled the rug out from under the argument that some gene or targeted set of genes causes people to engage
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
For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.—Corinthians 15:53 Noah’s Living Longer Story Imagine a hip,
A new kind of “hook up” culture is on the rise. It won’t be about connections between people but about individuals connecting with computers and
We human beings have always played around with our nature. But there is a point where the playing goes too far. We like to alter
No, you’re not paranoid. You are being watched. Very closely. Let’s arbitrarily begin with Facebook. Whether you have a Facebook page or not, the company
“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
Ever since the 1988 radiocarbon tests of the Shroud of Turin, the laboratories’ conclusion that the fabric dates from between 1260 and 1390 “with 95%
Does it fit within our Christian values to manufacture a human baby? More specifically, does it fit within our Catholic values? Our children will inherit
The denial of the concept of sin is the denial of one facet of intelligibility, yielding freedom without order, which is inanity. A sin is
