Introduction Multi-disciplinary evidence suggests that Basal-Hebrew was humanity’s first spoken and written language.[i] The topic of the original language is…
Read More »This is the first in a series of articles investigating major aspects of Catholic fundamental theology and their significance for…
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Read More »As a Catholic convert and medical professional with a keen interest in the creation-evolution debate, I am moved to present…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Christ is risen! Alleluia! Recently a priest friend of mine on the other side of the world wrote to me to say how much he had come to appreciate the link between the traditional liturgy of the Roman Rite and the traditional doctrine of creation. I suggested that he watch the video of the…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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,…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! One of the points that Dr. Jeffrey Bond brings home in his excellent philosophical critique of Darwinian evolution on the Kolbe website is that the farther a natural scientist is removed from actual observations of living creatures in nature, the more susceptible he is to generalize on the basis of…
Read More »As a child, I learned about evolution at school and in books. Therefore it had the stamp of authority and I believed it. At age 8, when I started Sunday School, I was given a Bible and first read Genesis. I was deeply impressed. How clever of God, I thought, to have managed to have His creation story written so that, at least in some respects, it matched the evolutionary story I already knew. Over the next 7 years I heard no hint from anyone at church that evolution might not be true. Indeed, as an exam prize I was given a book that promotes belief in theistic evolution. In its first 2 chapters my copy of “More Living Things for Lively Youngsters” describes the origin of the solar system and of life on earth in standard evolutionary terms. Mention of God is restricted to noting that the Bible says man was made from the dust of the earth, as though God used the evolution of life from non-living matter to make man. Two of my high school friends were from strongly atheist families. They argued that evolution proves that God is an unnecessary idea. I could see the logic …
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