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Unanswered Questions in Science

Bob Kurland October 25, AD2019 11 Comments

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

confess, repent, Confession, forgiveness

Catholic Thoughts on Yom Kippur, Redux*

Bob Kurland October 8, AD2019 2 Comments

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

How Should the Catholic Church Interact With Science?
IV. The Sanctity of Life:
Biotechnology and Bioethics

Bob Kurland September 28, AD2019 3 Comments

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

Volunteering, anger, judgment, hell, wrath

Preaching to the Choir:
The Futility of Arguing on the Internet, Redux

Bob Kurland September 20, AD2019 16 Comments

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

How Should the Catholic Church Interact With Science?
III St. John Paul II’s Rapprochement

Bob Kurland September 8, AD2019 5 Comments

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

How Should the Catholic Church Interact with Science?
Part II: The Medieval Church

Bob Kurland September 1, AD2019 4 Comments

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

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How Should the Catholic Church Interact With Science?
I. Do Not Judge Scientific Truth

Bob Kurland August 17, AD2019 16 Comments

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

Faith as a Scientist, Faith as a Catholic

Bob Kurland July 26, AD2019 2 Comments

“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

“Why?”– Questions God Can Answer
But Science Can’t

Bob Kurland July 17, AD2019 6 Comments

The time has come,’ the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and

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Music, a Road to Faith:
I. The Transforming Power of Music

Bob Kurland June 9, AD2019 6 Comments

“This so-called ‘music,’ they would have to concede, is in some way efficacious to humans. Yet it has no concepts, and makes no propositions; it

Jesus, the Great Rabbi:
On Teaching and Enlightenment

Bob Kurland May 10, AD2019 1 Comment

Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.¹ —John 20:16 (KJV) Lord, enlighten our minds!—

Were Adam and Eve Real?
Evolutionary Bottlenecks and “Darwin’s Radio”

Bob Kurland March 3, AD2019 8 Comments

“What you seem to be implying, however, is a hitherto undiscovered mechanism whereby the genome takes control of its own evolution, somehow sensing the right

“The Culture of Death,”
The Suicide of the West*:
Abortion, Infanticide, Euthanasia

Bob Kurland February 13, AD2019 3 Comments

We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Human life is

Resurrection of the Dead; Last Days:
Quantum Logic, Cosmology

Bob Kurland January 22, AD2019 1 Comment

Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But

Thees and Thous:
Anglican Usage’s Familiar God

Bob Kurland December 23, AD2018 3 Comments

Our mission is particularly experienced in our celebration of liturgy, which features Anglican traditions of worship while conforming to Catholic doctrinal, sacramental and liturgical standards.

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Deus Caritas Est;
The Attributes of Love

Bob Kurland November 25, AD2018 1 Comment

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 Jn 4:16). These words from the First Letter of

Why Doesn’t God Make it Easy to Believe?

Bob Kurland September 30, AD2018 1 Comment

Jesus said unto him, “Thomas, because thou hast seen Me, thou hast believed. Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed. —John

More Catholic Thoughts on Yom Kippur: Step 9 of 12; the Yom Kippur Scapegoat

Bob Kurland September 19, AD2018 1 Comment

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

Why and How Catholics Should Learn about Science

Bob Kurland July 20, AD2018 No Comments

‘It looks full of hard words and signs and numbers, not very entertaining or understandable looking, and I wonder whether it will make people

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Scientism: Faith in Science and Non-Belief in God; Sean Carroll’s “The Big Picture”

Bob Kurland June 9, AD2018 6 Comments

INTRODUCTION Scientism, the belief that science can explain everything about the world and ourselves, is a religion, although not formally expressed as such. When