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Evolution & Intelligent Design

The Universal Heart

WHERE THERE IS A CREATION, THERE IS A CREATOR

Joseph Lewis Heil

December 2023

Diverse animal species on all continents share one common, efficient, and extraordinarily designed organ that allows them all to live and flourish.

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The Rise of Immanent Metaphysical Time

CAN TIME CREATE WORLDS?

Jason M. Morgan

October 2023

The way we think about time has changed dramatically over five centuries. Time isn’t just a constant, a marked-off measure. It allows for the creation of whole worlds.

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Nature, Fit for Man

Terry Scambray

December 2022

When one considers the sublime fine-tuning of the universe as Denton describes it, the conclusion of a Designer is hard to resist.

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Breaking the Iron Grip of the Reigning Scientific Orthodoxy

THE TWILIGHT OF MINDLESS EVOLUTION?

Nicholas J. Healy

October 2020

Respected scholars have begun to admit that Darwinism is no longer supported by advances in science.

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Darwinian Devolution

Terry Scambray

July-August 2020

If most mutations warp or destroy what’s already in the DNA of an organism, where’s the step-by-step pathway upward to the new and improved versions?

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The Thomistic Critique of Theistic Evolution

John Lyon

June 2019

Thomism is an integral part of the millennial flow of Western thought and cannot simply be consigned to the dustbin of misguided and superseded systems of philosophy.

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Is a Gender War Woven into the Fabric of Creation?

Anthony Giambrone

March 2018

A review of The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — and Us

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Darwinian Departures from Reality

UNNATURAL SELECTION

Tom Bethell

March 2017

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A Laborer in Darwin's Vineyard

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

December 2016

A review of An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

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Another New Gnosticism

Christopher Beiting

July-August 2016

A review of The New Geocentrists

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The Theological Treachery of Partial Scientific Truths

GOOD TEILHARD ! BAD TEILHARD !

Mark McMenamin

July-August 2015

Partial truths are treacherous when applied to theology. By its very nature, scientific knowledge is incomplete.

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The Darwinists & the Albigenses

GUEST COLUMN

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

June 2015

Only a minority of believers who have entered into communion with the Albigenses and the Darwinists have ever managed to escape their labyrinths.

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The Green Goddess

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

January-February 2015

In "Ask the Beasts," Sister Elizabeth Johnson develops her own evolutionary theology, and of course attacks Church teaching.

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A Genius for Destructive Change

Terry Scambray

May 2014

The post-Darwin recasting of "science" has served to marginalize theology, ethics, and metaphysics by portraying them as mere matters of personal taste.

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A Wall Between Science & State?

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

March 2012

We need to protect people from the worldview that put Ota Benga in a cage, forcibly sterilized Carrie Buck, and shut the door to Jewish refugees in the 1930s.

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A Eulogy for "Selective Death"

Terry Scambray

November 2011

How refreshing it is to hear two atheist scientists call Darwin’s pet theory “utterly implausible, empty, and internally, fatally and irredeemably flawed.”

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The Cell Declares His Handiwork

A TURNING POINT IN THE EVOLUTION WARS?

Tom Bethell

July-August 2011

Darwinists are quietly losing the battle with the advocates of intelligent design, which is why they respond to ID with crude insults.

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The Impossible Wonderland

WHENCE EVOLVED EVOLUTION?

John Martin

November 2010

Over the past century and a half the bold little doctrine of evolution has taken center stage away from the glory that is revelation and the grandeur that is spirit.

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The Darwinian Basis for Eugenics

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

September 2008

Scientific materialism has become the foundation for much of American politics and culture; hence the efforts to turn February 12 into "Darwin Day" in schools.

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Must Human Evolution Contradict Genesis?

THE QUEST FOR ADAM & EVE

Dennis Bonnette

July-August 2007

Intelligent, well-educated Christians even today have good cause to believe those fundamental truths revealed by God in the first three chapters of Genesis.

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Catholics, Intelligent Design & Darwin's Theory

DETHRONING THE MONKEY GOD

Mark Cole

January 2007

As Catholics, we believe that God created the world -- and that human reason, unaided by revelation, can discern this truth. This does not obligate us to accept any theory.

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Darwinism & the Culture of Death

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

June 2006

Anne Barbeau Gardiner reviews From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany.

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The Furious Response to Intelligent Design

LAST THINGS

Tom Bethell

March 2006

Wishful thinking belongs to the Darwinians and nonbelievers. I've deduced this from their ad hominem attacks and reactions when their "religion" is insulted.

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Fundamentalists Inside The Catholic Church

HOW OLD IS THE EARTH?

Dermott J. Mullan

April 2003

When I teach that the Earth is 4 to 5 billion years old, I am not contradicting any currently defined Church doctrine or giving credence to Darwinian evolution.

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Intelligent Design vs. Blind Evolution: The Moral Implications

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN "IS" & "OUGHT"

Benjamin D. Wiker

March 2001

Since materialism denies the reality of an Intelligent Designer of nature, there is no extrinsic source for a moral code either.

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"You Have Ten Minutes to Prove The Existence of God to My Husband"

ON THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE

Benjamin D. Wiker

September 2000

So spoke the woman during a break in my third lecture on St. Thomas Aquinas...

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“Scientific” Literalism

Brendan Hodge

September 2000

Review of Creation Rediscovered: Evolution and the Importance of the Origins Debate

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Darwinism, Dawkinism & Christian Accommodationism

GOD PROPOSES, SCIENCE DISPOSES?

Thomas Lessl

February 2000

The phrase “evolution is a fact, not a theory” seems to emerge from the same realm of the human psyche that gives us “my country right or wrong.”

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Genes as Gods

Paul C. Fox

September 1999

Review of The Genetic Gods: Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs

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God Rolls the (Loaded) Dice

EVOLUTION & THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

James F. Tynen

April 1997

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Problems With Darwinism

CAN EFFECTS EXCEED CAUSES?

Francis Canavan

April 1997

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Darwin & Political Correctness

Gary Mar

July/August 1996

Reviews of Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life... Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education... The Battle of Beginnings: Why Neither Side Is Winning the Creation-Evolution Debate

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Space, Time, God & Dr. Hawking

IS GOD BUT A DISPOSABLE HYPOTHESIS FOR SCIENTISTS?

Frank R. Haig, S.J.

November 1988

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Shuttling between Cathedral & Laboratory

Bryce J. Christensen

December 1987

Review of The Trademark of God by George L. Murphy, Philosophy of Science by Del Ratzsch, and Cross-currents by Colin A. Russell

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Confessions of a Lapsed Evolutionist

INTELLECTUAL DIFFICULTIES

S.L. Varnado

September 1983

The Christian view of man’s origins rests upon sources totally indepen­dent of the changeable and conflicting theories of the scientist.

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