God Created Wholes, Not Parts
by Peter J. LeithartAs time progresses, science points more towards teleology and away from Darwin. Continue Reading »
Enlightened Scripture?
by Mark BauerleinDavid Ney joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Quest to Save the Old Testament: Mathematics, Hieroglyphics, and Providence in Enlightenment England. Continue Reading »
Cosmology and Creation
by William E. CarrollIn an address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 1951, Pope Pius XII remarked that “true science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree—as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.” One such door had been opened by recent developments in cosmology, championed . . . . Continue Reading »
I Will Consider My Cat Butter
by Peter J. LeithartAs junior members of the company of living souls, animals are summoned, along with human beings, to worship God. Continue Reading »
Steven Pinker Meets Socrates
by Mark ShiffmanA transcript of an unlikely encounter. Continue Reading »
The Tragic Atheist
by Ephraim Radner“I painted to be loved.” That is how the artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992) described his impulse to create. Bacon’s work came to be part of the canon of late twentieth-century British painting, hanging in major museums around the world. His brutal images of contorted bodies, slabs of meat, . . . . Continue Reading »
Catholic “Beliefs” and the Abortion Debate
by George WeigelThe correct answer to the question of when human life begins is not a matter of faith; it is a matter of scientific fact. Continue Reading »
Bellarmine at 400
by Raymond J. de SouzaThe 400th anniversary of the death of Robert Bellarmine invites a look back at this fascinating figure of the Catholic Reformation, engaged as he was with issues newly relevant today: the relationship of faith and science and of ecclesial and temporal power. Continue Reading »
This Book Was Made for Walking
by John WilsonDeSilva has written one of the most interesting “science books” I’ve read in the last five years and one of the most interesting “walking books” over the same span. Continue Reading »
The Expert Bubble Begins to Burst
by John William O’SullivanIs this a new dawn for journalism and science funding, or is it a classic bubble? Continue Reading »
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