When I began to read Hebrew, I thought to myself—as a native speaker of Bantu languages, that surely the Scriptures…
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In his Poetics, Aristotle commended tragedies to the polis as a means of educating citizens in the realities of the…
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When speaking on the science of Biblical Exegesis, St. Augustine says that one must always adopt the literal interpretation of…
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Introduction One of the most destructive heresies of the early Church was the heresy of Marcion who denied the divine…
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Role of information in biology Maciej Giertych Institute of Dendrology Polish Academy of Sciences 62-035 Kórnik, Poland Life is more…
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Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! One of the wonderful things about the true Catholic doctrine of creation is the way that it supports authentic Catholic culture and counteracts any tendency toward Gnosticism. Our First Parents were given dominion over the whole Earth and over every corporeal creature, so that, while living one life with God,…
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Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Catholic champions of theistic evolutionism continually appeal to St. Augustine as the one Father of the Church whose writings justify a non-literal interpretation of the first chapters of Genesis. In addition, since they recognize that the overwhelming majority of the Church Fathers believed in the literal historical truth of the…
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Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In this newsletter I am delighted to announce the release of Day Three in our DVD series “How the World Was Made in Six Days,” first in its streaming version, available now at this link, and in a few weeks in DVD format. I believe you will agree that Day…
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Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! According to Romans 5:20, when “sin abounded, grace abounded all the more,” so, if we are in “the worst crisis of faith in the Church’s history,” as Cardinal Raymond Burke has observed, it follows that it must also be an unprecedented time of grace for those who open their hearts…
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Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Readers of this newsletter know that we have been trying for 25 years to find Catholic theistic evolutionists willing to debate us in a public forum with very limited success. Not long ago, we were invited to participate in a debate on human evolution with two professors at the Franciscan…
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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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