(A) The Catholic Church has repeatedly made clear that biological evolution is compatible with Christian belief. For example, Pope Benedict XVI said in a 2007 speech, “[Evolution and belief in […]
No. Evolution and Creation are not competing ideas. They answer different questions. Cosmic evolution and biological evolution describe how the universe itself and the living things within it change over […]
Physics may eventually be able to tell us “how the universe began,” in the sense of describing the physical events that happened in the first moments of its history, though […]
The first three chapters of Genesis teach fundamental truths about God, Creation, and mankind; but neither the Book of Genesis nor the rest of the Bible were meant to instruct […]
Christians have always understood that human beings are like other animals at the physical level. This is stated very frankly in the Bible: “[A]s one dies, so dies the other. […]
There are really several interrelated questions here. The first is whether it makes biological sense to speak of there having been “first members of the human race,” whom Scripture calls […]
While all miracles are extraordinary displays of divine power that go beyond the ordinary course of nature, some are perfectly in accord with the laws of nature, such as the […]
The Catholic Church teaches that the existence of God can be known with certainty by the “natural light of reason.” 1 A very traditional set of arguments for the existence of […]
No. Even in non-religious matters, our knowledge has two sources: what we learn by our own observations and reasoning, and what we learn from others. It is true that we […]
History shows quite the opposite. The Catholic Church has been a friend of science and has contributed greatly to it in many ways. A leading historian of science, Prof. Lawrence […]
Throughout most of the history of science, the idea that a scientist could not also believe in God made no sense to most people in those countries where science was […]
Human beings are animals and have much in common with other animals, including at the mental level. Many animals have complex social interactions and emotional lives. Some species, especially chimpanzees, […]
