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Why Roman Catholicism Needs Intelligent Design
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (613+ words) Author's note: The following is a review of Fr. Michael Chaberek and Steve Greene, Creation or Evolution? A Catholic Dilemma(Lexington, KY: Inkwell Press, 2026). For instance, Ken Miller, the Brown University biologist, wrote Finding Darwin's God (1999), and John Haught, the…...
Witt: Darwinism and Its "Pernicious Cultural Implications
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (864+ words) What are we to make of rationality and creativity, of our awareness of the moral order? In the Judeo-Christian tradition, these markers are elevated. Source Intelligent design theory in the biological realm does not draw conclusions as to the identity…...
Catholicism and Evolution: A Response to Stephen Barr
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (672+ words) In 1878 the Congregation of the Index issued a decree against an Italian priest, Raffaello Caverni, who advocated a moderate form of evolutionism as compatible with the faith. We read in the document:" It's true that the decree could be easily…...
On Evolution, Pope Francis Spoke and the Media Got it Wrong
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (608+ words) Editor's note: On the passing of Pope Francis, Evolution News extends sympathy and wishes for consolation to all of our Catholic friends, writers, and supporters. While the science of biological origins was not a major theme of Francis's papacy, the…...