21Apr 2025 by Post

Pope Francis, Evolution, and the Curia

Associated Press, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Christianity, Curia, elites, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Evangelical Catholicism, Evolution, Faith & Science, George Weigel, Intelligent Design, materialism, media, National Review, newspapers, Pontifical Council on Culture, Pope Francis, religion, Roman Catholicism, Secularism, sexual misbehavior, Templeton Foundation, Vatican City, young people
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is “just another office down the street,” as one Vatican insider told me. Source
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17Mar 2025 by Post

Not Just a Scientific Theory, Intelligent Design Is a Foundation of Academic Freedom 

academic freedom, American Founders, closed system, Darwinian evolution, Declaration of Independence, Education, Faith & Science, inalienable rights, individual rights, Intelligent Design, liberty, living systems, materialistic processes, rights, Secularism, separation of church and state, tolerance, universe, university, Worldview
The American Founders established government with religious liberty for all by separating the State and the Church without separating human reason from divine revelation. Source
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24Jan 2025 by Post

When Culture Hates You with Natasha Crain

Bible, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Culture, Dr. Frank Turek, morality, Natasha Crain, philosophy, Podcast, religion, Secularism, theology, truth, When Culture Hates You
Has the recent political shift softened the growing animosity toward Christians, or is hostility here to stay? The election may be over, but Christians can’t afford to let our guards down just yet. While America might be moving toward cultural sanity, the battle for truth, justice, morality, and reason is far from over! This week, our good friend, Unshaken Conference speaker, and author, Natasha Crain, joins Frank to discuss her timely new book, ‘When Culture Hates You: Persevering for the Common Good as Christians in a Hostile Public Square‘. Together, they’ll explore how Christians can respond to persecution, speak truth boldly, and navigate cultural backlash and opposition with grace, courage, and humility, tackling questions like: Why do Christians need to speak truth in culture and link it to the Bible? What’s the ‘new vibe shift’ that’s…
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01Dec 2024 by Post

A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Adam and Eve, Brian Miller, Catholics, creation myth, Darwinian paradigm, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, Father Martin Hilbert, history, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, life, philosophy, science, Secularism, theology, universe
For too long now, Catholic scholars and many of the faithful have felt compelled to align themselves with a Darwinian account of life’s origins. Source
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31Oct 2024 by Post

What Science Owes to Faith, Hope, and Love

beauty, Edwin Chargaff, empirical data, empiricism, Evolution, explanatory scope, Faith & Science, faith and science, germ theory, John Williams Draper, knowing, Paul Dirac, philosophy, physical world, predictiveness, scientific theories, scientism, Secularism, Steven Weinberg, testability, truth, Warfare Myth, water
It's a stretch to say that our ability to do realist science arose from a mindless process of evolution. Source
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01Aug 2022 by Post

Darwin and the British Secularist Tradition

Adrian Desmond, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Anglicanism, Baron d’Holbach, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Crisis of Doubt, Culture, Dover Beach, Edward Aveling, Erasmus Darwin, Faith & Science, In Memoriam, James Moore, John Henry Gordon, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Leslie Stephen, Matthew Arnold, Origin of Species, Oxbridge, Robert Chambers, Secularism, The Oracle of Reason, The Rights of Man, Timothy Larsen, Tom Paine, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Victorian England
The arresting historical vignette of Darwin’s fraught meeting with Bradlaugh and Aveling at his country retreat would doubtless make for a good TV docudrama. Source
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05Mar 2022 by Post

Darwin and the Swinging 1860s

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Evolution, faith, Faith & Science, First Cause, First Vatican Council, Flower Power, Germany, Higher Criticism, information, Kulturkampf, Otto von Bismarck, Pope Pius IX, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism, Victorian England
The threat which such thinking posed to theistic beliefs was not lost on the Roman Catholic Church when Pope Pius IX convened the First Vatican Council of 1869. Source
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17Dec 2021 by Post

A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

authoritarianism, C.S. Lewis, Camille Griffin, Christmas, Christmas carols, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Davida McKenzie, experts, government, Great Britain, Greta Thunberg, House Beautiful, Keira Knightley, Lily-Rose Depp, Matthew Goode, Medicine, movies, pandemic, profanity, Republicans, Roman Griffin Davis, Russia, scientists, Secularism, Silent Night, Sope Dirisu, spoilers, The Abolition of Man
The new Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science. Source
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15Dec 2020 by Post

Meyer: For the Scientific God Hypothesis, Next Year Will Be Pivotal

Bronx, censorship, Center for Science & Culture, churches, Darwin’s Three Big Ideas that Impacted Humanity, essential businesses, Evolution News, faith, Faith & Science, ID 3.0 research project, ID The Future, John West, Long Story Short, Matthew Hennessey, media, providence, Return of the God Hypothesis, science, Science Uprising, Secularism, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, synagogues, Wall Street Journal, worship
Conceding that churches and synagogues aren’t “essential businesses” was a devastating admission for many professional religious leaders to make. Source
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