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Nasa scientist on the ressurrection of Jesus

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Dr. Rocco Martino is a former Nasa rocket scientist. In his book, “The Resurrection: A Criminal Investigation of the Mysterious Disappearance of the Crucified Criminal Jesus of Nazareth”, he investigates the most rational explanation for the empty tomb of Jesus: his resurrection.


Is Genesis to be understood figuratively?

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genesisDid the people written of in the book of Genesis really live to be 900 years old? Tim Staples explains what the Catholic Church teaches about this. Tim Staples is Director of Apologetics and Evangelization at Catholic Answers. He converted to Catholicism in 1988, after having been raised a Southern Baptist and a  youth minister in an Assembly of God community. Tim was in the Marine Corps for four years. He then followed six years in formation for the priesthood, earning a degree in philosophy. He then studied theology on a graduate level for two years. Realizing that his calling was not to the priesthood, Tim left the seminary in 1994 and has been working in Catholic apologetics and evangelization ever since.

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The Materialist and the Mind

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human brain on white backgroundWilliam Lane Craig PhD speaks in this ‘Religion-Philosophy Youtube Video’ on the materialist problem with the mind in light of Eben Alexander’s Proof of Heaven and atheist Thomas Nagel’s book Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False. By the way, Nagel is an atheist!

 

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The relationship between faith and science as a brotherly rivalry

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Guy Consolmagno sjThe Vatican astronomer and brother in the Jesuit order Guy Consolmagno is regularly interrogated on the relationship between science and religion. Is it possible to belief in both at the same time? It is known that the Catholic religion sees no contradiction between faith and science. Consolmagno see the relationship more like a ‘brotherly rivalry’. Watch a Rome Report video and/or read an interview with Zenit.org. 

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The Flying Spaghetti Monster and God

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The Flying Spaghetti Monster and GodAn acclaimed author, speaker and theologian, Robert Barron is a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago and the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire. He is the creator and host of the 10-part TV series Catholicism, and serves as the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein. He the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Lecture on ‘Evangelizing the Culture’ at Elmhurst College (Chicago – Illinois, USA), Wednesday, February 8. In this excerpt, Fr. Barron explains why christians – just as atheïsts – do not believe in flying spaghetti monsters, and what Christians mean by ‘God’. Click on ‘more’ to watch this video (9 minutes)

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Science and religion versus scientism

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Science and religion versus scientismAn acclaimed author, speaker and theologian, Robert Barron is a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago and the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire. He is the creator and host of the 10-part TV series Catholicism, and serves as the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein. He the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Lecture on ‘Evangelizing the Culture’ at Elmhurst College (Chicago – Illinois, USA), Wednesday, February 8. In this 12 minutes excerpt, Fr. Barron debunks the myth that Religion and Science are mortal enemies. Scientism, the belief that one can explain everything by means of the scientific method, appears to be itself logical incoherent. How would you scientifically test that presumption? Click on ‘more’ to watch this video (12 minutes)

 


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God’s Biologist: A Life of Alister Hardy

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A book that might almost have been entitled, ‘From Plankton to Prayer’. Bizarre, to be sure; but one does not often come across someone who is an expert in the biology of oceans and the relationship between plankton and the movements of fish, and who also has a deep interest in the relationship between the theory of evolution and research into religious experience. Such a man was Alister Hardy. He did oceanographical research on board little fishing boats from Hull, as well as on the Royal Research Ship,Discovery deep in the Antarctic. He held professorships in Biology in Hull, Aberdeen and Oxford. Yet the more complex depths of his character came from an important experience he had as a schoolboy at Oundle…

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Evangelic philosopher versus atheïst biologist: Craig – Dawkins

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Pope gives rare insight into faith-reason link

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While Benedict XVI was in Germany, he gave a rare insight into the link between faith and reason. The Pontiff said:
“Our world today is a rationalist and thoroughly scientific world, albeit often somewhat pseudo-scientific. But this scientific spirit, this spirit of understanding, explaining, know-how, rejection of the irrational, is dominant in our time. There is a good side to this, even if it often conceals much arrogance and nonsense.” 
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Fr. Barron on Christopher Hitchens & New Atheism (4 videos)

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Fr. Barron on Christopher Hitchens’ book ‘God is not Great’ (Part 1-3)

Fr. Barron comments on Praying for Christopher Hitchens


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