While we are not angels fallen from heaven, we are not just neural machines. Nor are we merely exceptionally clever chimps.

A key argument in the embryonic stem cell debate widely invoked by scientists, patient advocacy groups, and politicians involves the fate of frozen embryos.

Science, which is immune to political or fashionable trends, bears witness to the unique nature of the conjugal bond between a man and a woman.

I've decided to take the elements of materialism and shape them into a purportedly accurate, though mythic, narrative. This is what our culture has been missing for far too long — a creation story for young atheistic materialists.

As astrophysicist Sir James Jeans has remarked, "The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine."

Why would a preeminent physicist make the claim that the universe can come from nothing?

Stephen Hawking, the biggest brain among the big brains of physics, took the star turn here for the recent World Science Festival.

Apologists and well-read Catholics can point to many priest-scientists and declare forcefully what Fr. Georges Lemaître discoverer of the "Big Bang" robustly proclaimed in 1933: "There is no conflict between religion and science."

Contrary to the popular understanding, the natural sciences are not morally neutral. Not only do the findings of science have moral implications, the actual work of scientific research presupposes that the researcher himself is a man of virtue.

Today, the Pope Pius V University in Rome will be the setting for a day-long conference with the arresting title, The Scientific Impossibility of Evolution.