The Flying Spaghetti Monster and God
An 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)
Science and religion versus scientism
An 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
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…
Do human clones have souls?
Human clones have a soul? Tim Stacks, apologist for “Catholic Answers” (San Diego, CA) answers a question during the daily radio program “Catholic Answers Live.” Check the video (5:12 min.)
Science before science
In a series of ten video’s the distinguished physicist Dr. Anthony Rizzi and Marcus Grodi, host of EWTN’s Journey Home, discusse the Western Philosophical Tradition that poses a vision of reality rooted in the spiritual realm. This vision bespeaks the presence of an Almighty God. They draw on this rich philosophical heritage to encourage you to look outside the box of the merely scientific to see the blazing glory of the God-filled world. A guide to thinking and believing.

