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    Refuting Allegations of Inconsistency

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! On several occasions in recent years Catholic academics have criticized the Kolbe Center for allegedly holding an inconsistent position in regard to the use of scientific evidence to support the traditional literal historical interpretation of the sacred history of Genesis. Our critics accuse us of inconsistency since, on the one hand, we…

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    The Status Quo Ante Scopes

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! We have just completed our 13th annual leadership retreat, and I would like to thank all of you for your prayers, which obtained abundant blessings for all of us who attended the retreat this year. Yesterday, July 10, was the 101st anniversary of the opening of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial,…

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    Reverence for Scripture

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ Readers of this newsletter are well aware that the Firmiter of Lateran IV contains the most important conciliar definition of the dogma of creation in the history of the Catholic Church.  In the document Creation and Time and in the article at this link on the Kolbe website, we have…

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    Descartes Luciferian Legacy

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Not long ago I saw a video testimony of a member of a gang in Chicago who was shot, “died,” and visited Hell before returning to his body. One of the many memorable features of his testimony was his realization after he left his body that he had taken his…

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    1909 PBC Answers to Eight Questions on Genesis 1-3

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Yesterday, Dr. Thomas Seiler and I had a debate with Catholic podcaster Timothy Gordon and his brother on the age of the universe in light of the answers that the Pontifical Biblical Commission gave to eight questions on the first three chapters of the Book of Genesis in 1909.  You…

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Metaphysical Principles
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Creation Providence
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Character of God
06:42 March 14, 2016
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Almighty God or Mad Scientist
05:39 June 13, 2016
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Which is More Scientific?
18:51 May 15, 2016
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The Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation Interviews
08:07 June 9, 2015

  • Ed Taraba

    Dear Kolbe Center, The theory of evolution is a topic of great concern to me because it figured highly in my return to Christianity about sixteen years ago and helped solidify my eventual conversion to Roman Catholicism about six years ago. I was taught as a child in the Lutheran church that the story of Adam and Eve was a myth used to teach about morality and the relationship between man and God. The word “Adam,” I was told, means “mankind”. This never made sense to me since the bible itself does not portray it that way. Adam is a person and there is an unbroken time line in biblical history. If Adam and Eve were myths where do you draw the line between the myth and the real history? That always bothered me. I left the church at about age 17. Many years later as an adult when I began learning of the mounting scientific data opposing the theory of evolution, it opened the door to the scriptures for me and I began reading the Bible daily. Eventually I converted to Roman Catholicism. During my RCIA classes the true teaching of the Church on this subject was not offered. …

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