Modern Physics, the Beginning, and Creation
Some religious people look upon the discovery of the Big Bang as a scientific proof that the universe was created by God.
Some religious people look upon the discovery of the Big Bang as a scientific proof that the universe was created by God.
Many people believe that faith and reason, or religion and science, are locked in an irreconcilable war of attrition against one another.
Following Pope John Paul II's 1996 statement that the theory of evolution is more than just a hypothesis, newspapers around the world published articles wrongly asserting that the Church had finally come around and withdrawn its opposition to the theory.
Just last week, I had the joy of speaking at Youth Day at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress.
The op-ed, "Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God," unofficially is the most popular article in Wall Street Journal history.
The development of the modern scientific study of anthropology seemed to offer a promising field for religious skeptics.
One year after scientists flipped the switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicist Lawrence Krauss fretted, "I worry whether we’ve come to the limits of empirical science."
A legion of publishers will attest that Father Stanley Jaki (1924-2009) did not suffer fools gladly, and under that category he filed virtually all editors.
Lemaître had no trouble at all seeing how faith — divine creation out of nothing — and the Big Bang, which seems to look just like that, were compatible.