God, Science, and the Limits of Human Imagination
Both theology and science use analogy to understand realities that exceed the powers of human imagination.
Read MoreFranciscan priest and former biochemist tells how his philosophical journey started with the question “What is a human being?”
The remarkable story of the Jesuit astronomers in China.
A priest-scientist who was an early champion of evolution.
Reports that neuroscience has disproved free will are mistaken.
Dorothy Garrod crossed many boundaries: a pioneer scientist and Catholic convert.
Many features of the fundamental laws of physics seem to be “just right” to make life possible.
Prof. Kemp gives an overview of the history of Catholic evolutionist thinking and the Church’s reception of it.
A republication of a 1946 article by Physics Nobel Prize winner Victor F. Hess, in which he discusses his Catholic faith.
A historian expains how the concept of “laws of nature” has roots in Christian belief.
A Catholic scientist explains how scientific work can be a training ground for a life of faith.
The scientific community is now recognizing the enormous achievement of the humble priest (and brilliant theoretical physicist) Georges Lemaître who proposed the Big Bang theory 90 years ago.
Some people argue that it is irrational to believe in God, since his existence cannot be tested empirically. Does this argument make philosophical sense?