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Evolution & Intelligent Design
The Universal Heart
December 2023Diverse animal species on all continents share one common, efficient, and extraordinarily designed organ that allows them all to live and flourish.
VIEW ARTICLEThe Rise of Immanent Metaphysical Time
October 2023The way we think about time has changed dramatically over five centuries. Time isn’t just a constant, a marked-off measure. It allows for the creation of whole worlds.
VIEW ARTICLENature, Fit for Man
December 2022When one considers the sublime fine-tuning of the universe as Denton describes it, the conclusion of a Designer is hard to resist.
VIEW ARTICLEBreaking the Iron Grip of the Reigning Scientific Orthodoxy
October 2020Respected scholars have begun to admit that Darwinism is no longer supported by advances in science.
VIEW ARTICLEDarwinian Devolution
July-August 2020If most mutations warp or destroy what’s already in the DNA of an organism, where’s the step-by-step pathway upward to the new and improved versions?
VIEW ARTICLEThe Thomistic Critique of Theistic Evolution
June 2019Thomism is an integral part of the millennial flow of Western thought and cannot simply be consigned to the dustbin of misguided and superseded systems of philosophy.
VIEW ARTICLEIs a Gender War Woven into the Fabric of Creation?
March 2018Prum's study advances the claim that much extraordinary avian morphology and behavior is best explained as a factor of female desire and mate selection.
VIEW ARTICLEDarwinian Departures from Reality
March 2017Enlightenment thought in the 19th century accepted that Progress was such a powerful force that it would transform human nature. Darwin was swept along by this.
VIEW ARTICLEA Laborer in Darwin's Vineyard
December 2016Dawkins debunks the fervent faith of his childhood as naïve and gullible. From what he says, however, it is evident that he once had a close relationship with God.
VIEW ARTICLEAnother New Gnosticism
July-August 2016Keating examines the bizarre resurgence in recent years of geocentrism, or the notion that the earth is fixed and unmoving at the center of the universe.
VIEW ARTICLEThe Theological Treachery of Partial Scientific Truths
July-August 2015Partial truths are treacherous when applied to theology. By its very nature, scientific knowledge is incomplete.
VIEW ARTICLEThe Darwinists & the Albigenses
June 2015Only a minority of believers who have entered into communion with the Albigenses and the Darwinists have ever managed to escape their labyrinths.
VIEW ARTICLEThe Green Goddess
January-February 2015In "Ask the Beasts," Sister Elizabeth Johnson develops her own evolutionary theology, and of course attacks Church teaching.
VIEW ARTICLEA Genius for Destructive Change
May 2014The post-Darwin recasting of "science" has served to marginalize theology, ethics, and metaphysics by portraying them as mere matters of personal taste.
VIEW ARTICLEA Wall Between Science & State?
March 2012We need to protect people from the worldview that put Ota Benga in a cage, forcibly sterilized Carrie Buck, and shut the door to Jewish refugees in the 1930s.
VIEW ARTICLEA Eulogy for "Selective Death"
November 2011How refreshing it is to hear two atheist scientists call Darwin’s pet theory “utterly implausible, empty, and internally, fatally and irredeemably flawed.”
VIEW ARTICLEThe Cell Declares His Handiwork
July-August 2011Darwinists are quietly losing the battle with the advocates of intelligent design, which is why they respond to ID with crude insults.
VIEW ARTICLEThe Impossible Wonderland
November 2010Over the past century and a half the bold little doctrine of evolution has taken center stage away from the glory that is revelation and the grandeur that is spirit.
VIEW ARTICLEThe Darwinian Basis for Eugenics
September 2008Scientific materialism has become the foundation for much of American politics and culture; hence the efforts to turn February 12 into "Darwin Day" in schools.
VIEW ARTICLEMust Human Evolution Contradict Genesis?
July-August 2007Intelligent, well-educated Christians even today have good cause to believe those fundamental truths revealed by God in the first three chapters of Genesis.
VIEW ARTICLECatholics, Intelligent Design & Darwin's Theory
January 2007As Catholics, we believe that God created the world -- and that human reason, unaided by revelation, can discern this truth. This does not obligate us to accept any theory.
VIEW ARTICLEDarwinism & the Culture of Death
June 2006Anne Barbeau Gardiner reviews From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany.
VIEW ARTICLEThe Furious Response to Intelligent Design
March 2006Wishful thinking belongs to the Darwinians and nonbelievers. I've deduced this from their ad hominem attacks and reactions when their "religion" is insulted.
VIEW ARTICLEFundamentalists Inside The Catholic Church
April 2003When I teach that the Earth is 4 to 5 billion years old, I am not contradicting any currently defined Church doctrine or giving credence to Darwinian evolution.
VIEW ARTICLEIntelligent Design vs. Blind Evolution: The Moral Implications
March 2001Since materialism denies the reality of an Intelligent Designer of nature, there is no extrinsic source for a moral code either.
VIEW ARTICLE"You Have Ten Minutes to Prove The Existence of God to My Husband"
September 2000So spoke the woman during a break in my third lecture on St. Thomas Aquinas...
VIEW ARTICLE“Scientific” Literalism
September 2000Review of Creation Rediscovered: Evolution and the Importance of the Origins Debate
VIEW ARTICLEDarwinism, Dawkinism & Christian Accommodationism
February 2000The phrase “evolution is a fact, not a theory” seems to emerge from the same realm of the human psyche that gives us “my country right or wrong.”
VIEW ARTICLEGenes as Gods
September 1999Review of The Genetic Gods: Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs
VIEW ARTICLEDarwin & Political Correctness
July/August 1996Reviews of Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life... Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education... The Battle of Beginnings: Why Neither Side Is Winning the Creation-Evolution Debate
VIEW ARTICLEShuttling between Cathedral & Laboratory
December 1987Review of The Trademark of God by George L. Murphy, Philosophy of Science by Del Ratzsch, and Cross-currents by Colin A. Russell
VIEW ARTICLEConfessions of a Lapsed Evolutionist
September 1983The Christian view of man’s origins rests upon sources totally independent of the changeable and conflicting theories of the scientist.
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