Articles & Essays
- History
The First Human Language
Introduction Multi-disciplinary evidence suggests that Basal-Hebrew was humanity’s first spoken and written language.[i] The topic of the original language is…
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Fundamental Theology and Creation, Part 1: Faith, Science, and Creation
This is the first in a series of articles investigating major aspects of Catholic fundamental theology and their significance for…
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Our Lady of Guadalupe Ark Seekers
And the temple of God was opened in heaven and the ark of his testament was seen in his temple…
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Against Polygenism
“Would that We had not learned by experience how many ‘false apostles’ the present age has spawned! These are ‘deceitful…
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The Character of God Refutes Theistic Evolution
As a Catholic convert and medical professional with a keen interest in the creation-evolution debate, I am moved to present…
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Latest Newsletters
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Kolbe Center Report 4/13/24
Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Christ is risen! Alleluia! A few years ago, the Archbishop of Madrid called for penance for “sins against the earth,” sounding a note that has been heard more and more frequently in recent years from Church leaders around the globe. Catholic youth all over the world are being taught to think of the…
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Kolbe Center 3/30/24
Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! On this Holy Saturday, it is good for us to reflect on the profound connection between the First Saturday of the world, the Saturday of Our Lord’s “rest” in the tomb, and the immaculacy of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Blessed Mother. Outside of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox…
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Kolbe Report 3/23/24
Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Two weeks ago, I recalled experiments that were done with weaver birds that demonstrated their remarkable God-given instinct to build complex nests, even when deprived of the example of other birds. Unfortunately, I used information that I had included in a newsletter more than ten years ago which did not…
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Kolbe Report 3/16/23
Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! I recently had the privilege of once again praying at the tomb of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster in the Abbey of Mary Queen of the Apostles in Gower, Missouri. In a previous newsletter, we observed that the Catholic Church is distinguished from all man-made institutions by the immaculacy of her Scriptures,…
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Hannah Holden
Dear Mr. Owen, I'm a seventeen year old home-schooler, I live in Wichita, Kansas, with my father, mother, brother, and two sisters. My family became Catholic in 1994, and I happily attended our church's school from kindergarten upward, digesting books on biology and paleontology. On Sundays over lunch I would eagerly listen to my Dad reason aloud on the silliness of animals evolving into other kinds, and the way that all of the differently colored nations could stem from Adam and Eve. These topics were fascinating, so I naturally wanted to discuss them with my teachers, in whose classes I earned good grades, and who were my leaders and friends. The first time I raised my hand and questioned my science teacher, that perhaps archaeopteryx was not a missing link between reptiles and birds (as he was saying), but was a fully formed animal, he looked at me like I was insane and said that the evidence for evolution was obvious, but was too complicated to be discussed in a sixth grade classroom. It was disappointing to have him sidestep my questions, but it was heart-wrenching when I asked my religion teacher how six days of creation could possibly fit …
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