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Home: Core Subjects: Science: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Science: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Biblical Basis of Western Science - REV. STANLEY JAKINothing irks the secular world so much as a hint, let alone a scholarly demonstration, that supernatural revelation, as registered in the Bible, is germane to science. Read more... The Big Stem-Cell Breakthrough - Wesley J. SmithDid you see the size of those headlines? "Stem Cells Used to Create Artificial Liver," the New York Times screamed on its front page. Read more... The Cardinal, the Haberdashery, The Eskimos and the Third Thing - Donald DeMarcoIf there was one moment when it became obvious that the intelligent design discussion was an opportunity for the Church, it may have been when The New York Times published a contribution by none other than Cardinal Christoph Schönborn. Read more... The curious metaphysics of Dr. Stephen Hawking - Father Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.Why would a preeminent physicist make the claim that “the universe can come from nothing?” Read more... The Death of Darwinism - George Sim JohnstonNo book has so profoundly affected the way modem man views himself than Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species, first published in 1859. The notion that man is the product of a blind, materialist process which did not have him in mind is part of the intellectual air everyone breathes. Read more... The Designs of Science - Cardinal Christoph SchonbornIn July 2005 the New York Times published my short essay "Finding Design in Nature." The reaction has been overwhelming, and not overwhelmingly positive. Read more... The dispute between Galileo and the Catholic Church - Donald DeMarcoThe conflict between the Church and Galileo was not between a progressive scientist and a backward clergy, or between a blameless individual and an authoritarian Church. This paper is an attempt to examine the pertinent ideas, issues, and personalities in the Galileo affair and by trying to understand these, shed some light on what was at the very heart of the dispute between Galileo and the Catholic Church. Read more... The Evolution of Darwin - Dinesh D'SouzaThe scientist's problem with God did not spring from his theory. Read more... The Failure of Darwinism to Explain Morality - Benjamin Wiker"As an explanation of the world, materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has just the quality of the madman’s arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out." — G.K. Chesterton Read more... The Galileo Affair - George Sim JohnstonSince the Galileo case is one of the historical bludgeons that are used to beat on the Church — the other two being the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition — it is important that Catholics understand exactly what happened between the Church and that very great scientist. A close look at the facts puts to rout almost every aspect of the reigning Galileo legend. Read more... The Galileo Code - Scott WalterIf we wanted to add a twentieth-century name to the list of prophets, I would nominate Robert Nisbet (1914-1996), who would not be surprised by recent revelations that an elite group of global-warming experts have been reckless with their "science" and ruthless towards their scientific peers. Read more... The Galileo Legend - Thomas LesslThe extent to which people are mislead by the Galileo legend first began to dawn on me several years ago when I was teaching a doctoral seminar in the history of rhetoric — my own academic field. Read more... The Genesis Controversy - GEORGE SIM JOHNSTONWhile it may be too early for obituaries, the original theory of evolution, as well as the synthetic theory which has to some extent replaced it, are in serious trouble. Read more... The Genesis Problem - Father Robert BarronI’m continually amazed how often the “problem” of Genesis comes up in my work of evangelization and apologetics. Read more... The God Delusion: David Quinn & Richard Dawkins debate - The Ryan Tubridy ShowNow, this morning, we are asking, what’s wrong with religion? Read more... The Human Genome in Human Context - Stephen M. BarrThe perceived dangers of genetic research fall into several categories, ranging from the practical to the apocalyptic. At the practical end are issues relating to medical privacy, the insurability of people with genetically identifiable risks for disease, and the use of genetic information to stigmatize or discriminate against individuals or groups. Read more... The Humility of Science, the Arrogance of Scientists - Anthony EsolenI have no intent to demean scientists. I wish merely to see them for what they are, and to see their work for what it is, and to protect the polity from placing too much trust in their unacknowledged priesthood. Read more... The Meaning-Full Universe - Benjamin J. WikerWe are accustomed to characterizing the origin of the universe as an enormous explosion. Perhaps it had more of the character of a flower rapidly unfolding from a densely packed bud, and it is a mere prejudice that keeps us from seeing the evidence before our very eyes. Read more... The Natural History Museum - CATHERINE DALZELLThe greatest danger of evolutionism is that, under its influence, many people find the obvious hard to see. Read more... The Other Creation Story - Brian KillianDarwinism is very much like a religion. Its historical narrative has become the creation myth of secular culture. But it can no longer hide behind the façade of science. Read more... The Papacy and Galileo - Patrick MadridMany have unwittingly embraced the myth that Galileo Galilei, a 17th-century Italian astronomer, discovered the heliocentricity of the solar system and, because his discovery conflicted with Catholic teaching, was tortured until he recanted. All this is pure fabrication. Read more... The Permanent Limitations of Biology - Leon R. Kass, M.D.How far can biology take us? Are there limits on what it can know or on what it may enable us to do? Read more... The Permanent Limitations of Biology - Leon R. Kass, M.D.How far can biology take us? Are there limits on what it can know or on what it may enable us to do? Read more... The Pope and the Apes - GEORGE SIM JOHNSTONThe Church has no problem with evolution so long as divine causality is not excluded. In October of 1996, Pope John Paul II delivered a message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences regarding the theory of evolution. Read more... The Pope's Astrophysicist - Margaret WertheimFor close to a quarter century George Coyne has been director and senior scientist at the Vatican Observatory, the Roman Catholic church's beachhead on the shore of astronomical research. A small and energetic man, Coyne is the son of a working class family who is still slightly dazzled to find himself at the epicenter of Catholic life. Read more... Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Thu Feb 09 2012 - 20:02:45
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