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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

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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

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pope, john paul ii

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

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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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causality, miracle, creation, God, morality, man

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

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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

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why questions

“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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hymn, church music, chant, evangelization, Jazz

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

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ideologies

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!—

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Mitochondrial Eve, Dawkins

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

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“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

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resurrected body, prophecy

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

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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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order, design, creation, intelligibility

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

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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

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Yom Kippur, scape goat

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

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Anthropic

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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nebula, creation, universe, wonder, unknown

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

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prayer

The Easter Vigil: Christ Be Our Light!*

Bob Kurland March 31, AD2018 No Comments

  The rubrics of the Missale Romanum remind us that this “mother of all vigils” is the “greatest and most noble of all solemnities and it is

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Our Father

It Doesn’t Pay to Argue on the Internet

Bob Kurland July 2, AD2015 9 Comments

  “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” -Colossians 4:6 “At BioLogos,

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Evangelization: Don’t Argue on the Internet

Bob Kurland February 14, AD2014 3 Comments

“Non in dialectica placuit Deo salvum facere populum suum” (“It is not by ar­guing that God chose to save His people”).  -St. Ambrose “Fortunately, there

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Christianity: Counterfactuals vs Faith

Bob Kurland February 11, AD2014 4 Comments

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything

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Are All Great Scientists Atheists?

Bob Kurland January 6, AD2014 18 Comments

“The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.”  Galileo Galilei “Certain it is that a conviction, akin

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