My faith doesn't depend on keeping up on the latest developments in science, but it's not threatened by knowledge either.
Maintaining ignorance of what we've learned in the last two dozen or so centuries is not a virtue, and thinking is not a sin.
(March 29, 2015; January 23, 2015)
Nearly every week, I write about a fossilized critter, planets circling other stars, new tech: whatever caught my eye in recent 'science and technology' news. I routinely update the link list to those posts — You'll find it under Seeking Truth, Seeking God, below.
"Beyond These, Many Things Lie Hid..."
(From NASA; ESA; G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch, University of California, Santa Cruz; R. Bouwens, Leiden University; and the HUDF09 Team; used w/o permission.)
We've learned quite a bit in the 22 centuries since this was written:
"Beyond these, many things lie hid; only a few of his works have we seen.I strongly suspect that there's even more that we haven't learned yet. I like living in a vast and ancient universe, and want to learn as much as I can about it.
"It is the LORD who has made all things, and to those who fear him he gives wisdom."
(Sirach 43:34-35)
On the other hand, some folks seem determined to ignore the wonders that God created, to cultivate ignorance as if it were a virtue.
That doesn't make sense to me.
I'm a Catholic, so my faith doesn't require me to ignore facts and stop thinking. Quite the contrary. I've posted about this before, and probably will again.
Seeking Truth, Seeking God
Seeking truth and seeking God are compatible. So are faith and reason. I thought this was true before I became a Catholic, and still do. More importantly, that's what the Church says. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 35, 50, 154, 274, 1706)About once a week, I write about the continuing search:
- "Cryonics, Smallpox, and Pope Pius VII"
(April 29, 2016)
Particularly - "Flat Earth, Psalms 150:1 — and Joy"
(April 24, 2016)
Particularly - "Chameleons, Crystals: and Curiosity"
(April 22, 2016)
Particularly - "Starshot, SETI, and the Universe"
(April 15, 2016)
Particularly - "BEAM Prototype Habitat, Bigelow's Plans"
(April 8, 2016)
Particularly - "Synthetic Life, DNA Profiles"
(April 1, 2016)
Particularly - "Reaching for the Stars"
(March 25, 2016)
Particularly - "Fossils, DNA, and Being Human"
(March 18, 2016)
Particularly - "Lizard-Fish, Fungi, and Change"
(March 11, 2016)
Particularly - "Seeking New Worlds, New Life - - -"
(March 3, 2016)
Particularly - "Glyptodonts and Climate Change"
(February 26, 2016)
Particularly - "Space Archaeologist, 55 Cancri e"
(February 19, 2016)
Particularly - "Tiny Eyeballs and Purple Socks"
(February 12, 2016)
Particularly - "Luxembourg and Asteroid Mining"
(February 5, 2016)
Particularly - "Sleep and Being Human"
(January 29, 2016)
Particularly - "DNA, Headless Skeletons of York"
(January 22, 2016)
Particularly - "SETI: Looking for Neighbors"
(January 15, 2016)
Particularly - "Barsoom Development Ltd."
(January 8, 2016)
Particularly - "On Mars by 2040?"
(January 1, 2016)
Particularly - "SpaceX, Mars, and Someday the Stars"
(December 24, 2015)
Particularly - "Enceladus and Kepler's Planets"
(December 18, 2015)
Particularly - "Ceres, Pluto: There's More to Learn"
(December 11, 2015)
Particularly - "Climate Summit: Costumes and a Smog Brick"
(December 4, 2015)
Particularly - "Mutant Medflies, GMO Mosquitoes"
(November 27, 2015)
Particularly - "Europe's Complex Heritage"
(November 20, 2015)
Particularly - "Pluto's Cup-Capped Mountains"
(November 13, 2015)
Particularly - "Chimps, Apples; and Goggle Eyes"
(November 6, 2015)
Particularly - "Kerberos, Mars: Answers Raise New Questions"
(October 30, 2015)
Particularly - "The Halloween Asteroid: 2015 TB145"
(October 29, 2015) - "Zircons and Earth's First Life"
(October 23, 2015)
Particularly - "Pig Organs, Ancient Immigrants"
(October 16, 2015)
Particularly - "Kidneys, Experiments, and Ethics"
(September 25, 2015)
Particularly - "New Species, Old Burial Site"
(September 18, 2015)
Particularly - "Big Eyes, Bonobo Squeaks"
(September 11, 2015)
Particularly - "New Horizons and Ceres"
(September 4, 2015)
Particularly - "Early Hands, Mutant Mice"
(August 28, 2015)
Particularly - "New Worlds: 51 Eridani b, HD 219134b"
(August 21, 2015)
Particularly - "Neutrinos and a Fading Universe"
(August 14, 2015)
Particularly - "Organics on a Comet, and Earth's Early Magnetism"
(August 7, 2015)
Particularly - "Faith, Fear, and Flying Saucers"
(August 2, 2015)
Particularly - "Pluto, Earth 2.0, and Life in the Universe"
(July 31, 2015)
Particularly - "Why Make a Universe?"
(July 26, 2015)
Particularly - "Pluto's Unexpected Terrain; SETI, Radio, and Drums"
(July 24, 2015)
Particularly - "New Horizons: Past Pluto, Outward Bound"
(July 17, 2015)
Particularly - "Pluto's 'Whale,' Comet 67P's Sinkholes"
(July 10, 2015)
Particularly - "Climate Change Talks, and Remembering King Cnut"
(July 3, 2015)
Particularly - "Beavers, Floods, and Yet Another Dire Prediction"
(June 26, 2015)
Particularly - "Tiny Microbes and the Tree of Life, Big Aliens"
(June 19, 2015)
Particularly - "Thomas Aquinas and the DARPA Robot Competition"
(June 12, 2015)
Particularly - "Human Nature, Change, and Dinosaur Names"
(June 5, 2015)
Particularly - "Dogs, Stone Tools, and Newly-Discovered Ancestors"
(May 29, 2015)
Particularly - "A Robotic Tentacle, and Disney's Baymax"
(May 22, 2015)
Particularly - "Fire Ant Engineering and Bungee Nerves"
(May 15, 2015)
Particularly - "Climate Change, Deccan Traps: Still Learning"
(May 8, 2015)
Particularly - "Climate Change, Science, and the Vatican"
(May 1, 2015)
Particularly - "Mass Extinctions Revisited, Moving Octopuses"
(April 24, 2015)
Particularly - "Dark Matter and Energy: New Data, and a Map"
(April 17, 2015)
Particularly - "Large Hadron Collider: There’s More to Learn"
(April 10, 2015)
Particularly - "Early Brood Care, Four-Eyed Cambrian Predator"
(April 3, 2015)
Particularly - "A Hidden Crater, Lava Tubes, and Mercurian Ice"
(March 20, 2015)
Particularly - "Dawn's Arrival at Ceres; Sims and 'Chaos' "
(March 13, 2015)
Particularly - "Mutant Cows, Mass Migrations, and a Brain Gene"
(March 6, 2015)
Particularly - "From Trilobites to Whales: Getting Bigger"
(February 27, 2015)
Particularly - "Setting Earth's Thermostat"
(February 20, 2015)
Particularly - "DNA, Babies, Life, and Death"
(February 13, 2015)
Particularly - "Baby Chickens, Numbers: and Studying an Old Skull"
(February 6, 2015)
Particularly - "Precision-Grip Thumbs and an A 'New' Archosaur"
(January 30, 2015)
Particularly - "Mutant Malaria, Designer Babies, and Ethics"
(January 23, 2015)
Particularly - "Asteroid Readiness, and a SpaceX Test Landing"
(January 16, 2015)
Particularly - "Fossils in 2014: Weird Mouth, Feathers, and More"
(January 9, 2015)
Particularly - "Alien Worlds, Martian Methane, Looking for Life"
(January 2, 2015)
Particularly - "Found: Genes for Fins, Paws, and Hands"
(December 26, 2014)
Particularly - "Spotting a Diamond (?) Planet, Searching for Life"
(December 19, 2014)
Particularly - "Homo Erectus Engraving, Long-Lost Relatives"
(December 12, 2014)
Particularly - "DNA Test Hype; and Studying Life's Origins"
(December 5, 2014)
Particularly - " 'Organic,' 'Wow!' — and Double Planets"
(November 28, 2014)
Particularly - "Beauty, Order, and Pterosaurs"
(November 21, 2014)
Particularly - " 'Philae ... Headed for History "
(November 14, 2014)
Particularly - "Harpooning the 'Rubber Duck' Comet; Public Safety — and Space Aliens"
(November 7, 2014)
Particularly - "Dinosaur Arms, and Ust'-Ishim Man's DNA"
(October 31, 2014)
Particularly - "Earth's Wandering Poles, A Comet, a Wobbling Moon"
(October 24, 2014)
Particularly - "Ebola: Scary, and Beatable"
(October 17, 2014)
Particularly - "New Maps for Earth and Moon, and India's Mars Mission"
(October 10, 2014)
Particularly - "Sagittarius B2, Water, and Asteroid Mining"
(October 3, 2014)
Particularly - "Schrodinger's Cat(s); and Gravitational Waves, Revisited"
(September 26, 2014)
Particularly - "Scientific Discoveries: an Invitation to 'Even Greater Admiration' "
(September 21, 2014)
Particularly - "African Wildlife: During the Cretaceous"
(September 19, 2014)
Particularly - "Strange Critters, a Dinosaur, and Early Permian Night Hunters"
(September 12, 2014)
Particularly - "Neanderthal Art, DNA MREs, and Sliding Rocks"
(September 5, 2014)
Particularly - "Regeneration: Getting Closer to Growing Lost Organs"
(August 29, 2014)
Particularly- - - - Why Can't We?
- Growing a Thymus from Scratch
- First Steps: Growing Liver Buds
- Replacement Parts, Grown to Order: Bladders Today; Hands — Eventually, Maybe
- Brand-New Tech, Same Old Challenges
- Positive Law, Isus Positum: Human-Made Rules
- Natural Law, Lex Naturalis: Universal Principles, Changing Applications
- "Build Your Own Robot Swarm — or — Angular Automatons and Cuckoo Clocks"
(August 22, 2014)
Particularly - "Neurosynaptic Cores and Retinal Implants: Getting a Grip About Tech"
(August 15, 2014)
Particularly - "Humility: Accepting Reality"
(August 10, 2014)
Particularly - "Cuddly Dinosaurs and Feathers"
(August 8, 2014)
Particularly - "Starships, Dinosaurs, and Long-Distance Service for Mars"
(August 1, 2014)
Particularly - "Volcanoes and Fossilized Brains: Studying Earth's Past"
(July 25, 2014)
Particularly - "Kapteyn b, Habitable Zones, and Using Our Brains"
(July 18, 2014)
Particularly - "Coping With Change for Millions of Years; Chatty Chimps"
(July 11, 2014)
Particularly - "Cloudinids and a Big Fish: Learning More of Earth's Story"
(July 4, 2014)
Particularly - "Life in the Universe, and Titan's Disappearing 'Island' "
(June 27, 2014)
Particularly - "Lukewarm Dinosaurs, the Earliest Known Fish, and Durable Faces"
(June 20, 2014)
Particularly - "Mutant Mosquitoes and a Made-to-Order Cancer Treatment"
(June 13, 2014)
Particularly - "Ticks in Amber, Mutant Crickets, and Paleolithic London"
(June 6, 2014)
Particularly - "Jadeite from Space; a Moon of Mars; and Kepler's New Mission"
(May 30, 2014)
Particularly - " '...As a Grain From a Balance....' "
(May 29, 2014) - "South American Dinosaurs, Large and 'Small;' and a Changing World"
(May 23, 2014)
Particularly - "Moons, Solar Origins, and a Crash that Cracked the World (Maybe)"
(May 16, 2014)
Particularly - "Habitable Worlds, Homer, and Haldane — or — Ganymede's Oceans, and Imagining Kepler-186f's Sunsets"
(May 9, 2014)
Particularly - "Lowering Costs on the Earth-to-Orbit Run, Preparing for Incoming Asteroids"
(May 2, 2014)
Particularly - "Fear, Foreboding, and Getting a Grip About Technology"
(April 27, 2014)
Particularly - "The Search for Life: Earth-Size Planet, in the Habitable Zone — Found"
(April 25, 2014)
Particularly - "Life in the Universe: Focusing the Search"
(April 18, 2014)
Particularly - "The Oldest Known Heart; Tweaking Bacteria; and Looking for Life in the Universe"
(April 11, 2014)
Particularly - "Dinosaur Tracks; the Great Dying; and a Black Death Burial Ground"
(April 4, 2014)
Particularly - "A Giant Turtle, the "Chicken from Hell," and a Cretaceous Stick Insect"
(March 28, 2014)
Particularly - "Science and Religion (Truth Cannot Contradict Truth)"
(March 24, 2014)- Embedded video (5:13)
- "Gravity Waves: Finding Ripples From the Big Bang"
(March 21, 2014)
Particularly - "Lexical Confusion: Astrology isn't Astronomy"
(March 20, 2014) - "New on the Blogroll: Two Catholic Men and a Blog"
(March 18, 2014) - "Protecting Tornado Alley With Tao's Walls?"
(March 14, 2014)
Particularly - "Astronomers, X-ray crystallographers, Apothecaries, and Saints"
(March 12, 2014) - "Fish, Extremophiles, and the Emperor's New Clothes"
(March 7, 2014)
Particularly - "Whale Fossils in a Desert, Ancient Zircons, and a Changing World"
(February 28, 2014)
Particularly - "Science, Faith, and Albertus Magnus"
(February 23, 2014)
Particularly - "DNA Components, an Asteroid, and Life on a Wobbling World"
(February 21, 2014)
Particularly - "Getting a Grip About Dr. Moreau, Pigs, and Human Dignity"
(February 14, 2014)
Particularly - "Smallpox, Science, and Silliness"
(February 12, 2014)
Particularly - "Planets, Creation's Afterglow, and Double Stars"
(February 7, 2014)
Particularly - "2 + 2 = 4, Therefore … : Getting a Grip about Faith and Science"
(February 5, 2014)
Particularly - "Saul's Blunders: Amalek, Endor"
(February 2, 2014) - "Cave Men, Sea Monsters, Dead Scorpions, and Theoretical Physics"
(January 31, 2014)
Particularly - "Ceres, a Comet, and Venusian Water"
(January 24, 2014)
Particularly - "Strange New Worlds; Getting a Grip about Space Aliens; and a Fossil Fish"
(January 17, 2014)
Particularly - "Cockroaches, Spiders, and — Things"
(January 10, 2014)
Particularly - "Personal Preference, Reality, and Dealing with Knowledge"
(January 2, 2014)
Particularly - "Dust and Fomalhaut: Learning that There's More to Learn"
(December 27, 2013)
Particularly - "Truth, Toothpicks, Beaks, and God"
(December 13, 2013)
Particularly - "Collagen: 68,000,000 Years Old, and Still Soft"
(December 6, 2013)
Particularly - "Scorpions, Acid Rain, and the Great Dying"
(November 29, 2013)
Particularly - Acid Rain and the Great Dying
- Sudden Death, Permian Style
- "Spears, Dogs, and Artificial Organisms"
(November 22, 2013)
Particularly - "Old Water, Older Fossils, and Extraterrestrial Etiquette"
(November 15, 2013)
Particularly - "Tunguska and Chelyabinsk Airbursts: Risk, Rocks, and Readiness"
(November 8, 2013)
Particularly - "The Eight-and-a-Half-Hour Year of Kepler 78b, and the Seven Worlds of KIC 11442793"
(November 1, 2013)
Particularly - "Kepler-69c and Habitable Zones; The Great Martian Land Rush"
(October 25, 2013)
Particularly - "Oxygen, Life, and Autocells"
(October 18, 2013)
Particularly - "Life in the Universe, God, and Getting a Grip"
(October 17, 2013)
Particularly - "Truth Cannot Contradict Truth"
(October 13, 2013)
Particularly - "Fusion Power, Terraforming, and Old Dutch Windmills"
(October 11, 2013)
Particularly - "Love, Technology, and Being Human"
(October 6, 2013)
Particularly - "Three Es: Exoplanets, Exobiology, and Evolution"
(October 4, 2013)
Particularly - "Asteroids, Comets, and Doing Our Job"
(September 29, 2013)
Particularly - "Asteroids, Comets, and Doing Our Job"
(September 29, 2013)
Particularly - "Chesapeake Bay Crater; the Moon's Early Years"
(September 27, 2013)
Particularly - "Spirals: Variations on a Theme"
(September 22, 2013)
Particularly - "Beetles, Bibles, and Brains"
(September 21, 2013)
Particularly - Brains
- "Life in the Universe: Learning Where to Look"
(September 20, 2013)
Particularly - "Earth's Grander Canyon, a Submerged Mountain, and an Ancient Ice Sheet"
(September 13, 2013)
Particularly - "Exoplanets and Extraterrestrial Life: The Search Continues"
(September 6, 2013)
Particularly - "Oxygen, Ice, and Our Changing Earth"
(August 30, 2013)
Particularly - "Beads from an Asteroid's Heart, and Badgers"
(August 23, 2013)
Particularly - "Tracing the Y Chromosome, Studying Fossil Proteins, Seeking Truth"
(August 16, 2013)
Particularly - "Fifth Column Fruit Flies and Return of the Immortal Chicken Heart"
(August 9, 2013)
Particularly - " 'A Boy and His Mutant Wolf' "
(August 8, 2013) - "Making Mice Remember What Never Was"
(August 2, 2013)
Particularly - "A Russian Meteor, Ancient Craters, and Coming Events"
(July 26, 2013)
Particularly - "The Lights of Reason and Faith"
(July 21, 2013) - "When the Volcano Stops Screaming - - -"
(July 19, 2013)
Particularly - "Lowbrow to Highbrow in Four Centuries, Paleolithic Pitchers, and a Fantastic Elastic Echinoderm"
(July 5, 2013)
Particularly - "The Three Super-Earths of Gliese 677C; and Unexpected Planets"
(June 28, 2013)
Particularly - "Asteroids, NASA, Congress, and Quarks"
(June 21, 2013)
Particularly - "A Remote Control Cockroach, Organ Transplants, and Renting People"
(June 14, 2013)
Particularly - "Planets, Space-Time Bubbles, and Turtle Shells"
(June 7, 2013)
Particularly - "Getting a Grip about Genesis, Gamma Ray Bursts, and (Maybe) a Multiverse"
(May 30, 2013)
Particularly - "The Vatican and SCIENCE?!"
(May 30, 2013)
Particularly - "Today, the Planets: Tomorrow, the Stars?"
(May 17, 2013)
Particularly - "Robots, a Martian Dune, and Mapping a Billion Stars"
(May 10, 2013)
Particularly - "Prayer! Meditation! Science!"
(May 3, 2013)
Particularly - "Antigravity Experiments, Quantum Entanglement, and Making Kidneys"
(May 3, 2013)
Particularly - "Love, Neighbors, and Asteroids"
(April 26, 2013)
Particularly - "Spaceships, Robots, and Being Catholic"
(April 12, 2013)
Particularly - "Studying the Builder's Craft"
(April 5, 2013) - "Seeking Truth, Accepting Vastness"
(April 2, 2013) - "DNA, Voyager 1, Habitable Worlds, and the Universe"
(March 22, 2013)
Particularly - "Designed as Stewards"
(March 17, 2013) - "Getting Lost, a Seismometer in Space, and Viking 'Magic' "
(March 15, 2013)
Particularly - Science, Religion, Technology, and Magic
A three-part post- "Getting a Grip About Science, Religion, Technology, and Magic"
(March 13, 2013) - "Getting a Grip about: Science and Religion"
(March 13, 2013) - "Getting a Grip about: Technology and Magic"
(March 13, 2013)
- "Getting a Grip About Science, Religion, Technology, and Magic"
- "Stem Cell Research, Mapping Mercury, and Alpha Centauri's Cool Layer"
(March 8, 2013)
Particularly - "Popes; Earth's Past; and a High-Tech Eye Implant"
(March 1, 2013)
Particularly - "Vast and Ancient"
(February 27, 2013) - "Science, Neural Interfaces, and Electing a Pope"
(February 22, 2013)
Particularly - "Ethics and Asteroids"
(February 20, 2013) - "Hope, Sorrow, and a Rock on Mars"
(February 15, 2013)
Particularly - " '...The Man With the X-Ray Eyes,' the Tuskegee Experiment, and Seeking God"
(February 10, 2013) - "Seriously Searching for Life in the Universe"
(February 8, 2013)
Particularly - "Reason, Evidence, and Searching for Truth"
(February 3, 2013) - "Redefining the Habitable Zone; Drilling for Bacteria in Antarctica; and Arson in Mali"
(February 1, 2013)
Particularly - "Science, Technology, and Being Human"
(January 27, 2013) - " 'Too Many' People?"
(January 20, 2013)
Particularly - "Technology, Freedom, and 'Love Your Neighbor' "
(January 18, 2013)
Particularly - "Influenza, Nostalgia, Science, Ethics, and Me"
(January 13, 2013)
Particularly - "News, Good and Otherwise: and Billions of Worlds"
(January 11, 2013)
Particularly - "Guns, Gamma Ray Bursts, and Roller Coasters"
(January 4, 2013)
Particularly - "Ulysses, Tennyson, and Me"
(December 30, 2012)
Particularly - "Studying Thousands of Worlds; Defending Life and Conscience on Ours"
(December 28, 2012)
Particularly - "Freedom, Joy, and Tau Ceti's Planets"
(December 21, 2012)
Particularly - "Solidarity and Silly Ideas"
(December 17, 2012)
Particularly - "The Pope and the Christmas Tree"
(December 16, 2012)
Particularly - "Conscience in the News; a Radar Map of Titan; Exploring Mars"
(December 14, 2012)
Particularly - "Freedom, Fear, Mayan 'Doomsday,' and a Solar Super-Flare (Maybe)"
(November 30, 2012)
Particularly - "Recovering from a Hurricane; Defending Freedom; Studying the Cosmos"
(November 22, 2012)
Particularly - "Defending Religious Liberty; and Living in a World of Wonder"
(November 16, 2012)
Particularly - "Liberty, an Election, and a Rock on Mars"
(October 26, 2012)
Particularly - "Alpha Centauri, Freedom, and Me"
(October 19, 2012)
Particularly - "Defending Religious Liberty; and Living in a World of Wonder"
(November 16, 2012)Particularly - "Liberty, an Election, and a Rock on Mars"
(October 26, 2012)
Particularly - "An Ancient Brain, Politics, and Searching for Life on Mars"
(October 12, 2012)
Particularly - "9/11, Religion, and Assumptions"
(September 11, 2012) - " 'Think Nice Thoughts About Eugenics,' and Good News"
(August 24, 2012)
Particularly - "Principles, Politics, Parkas, and a Robot on Mars"
(August 17, 2012)
Particularly - "Sikhs, Catholics, and Prayer; Evangelization; and Exploring Mars"
(August 10, 2012)
Particularly - "Blind Mice; Heroism During the 'Batman' Killings"
(July 27, 2012)
Particularly - " 'The World is On Fire' - Again: Saint Teresa of Avila and the New Evangelization"
(July 22, 2012)
Particularly - "Tennessee Mosque, Fundamental Rights, and a Mission to Mars"
(July 20, 2012)
Particularly - "Taking Life a Thousand Years at a Time"
(June 10, 2012) - "Population Explosion, Birth Dearth, and a Changing World"
(June 9, 2012) - "The World isn't Flat"
(June 9, 2012) - "Adam and Eve and All That"
(May 15, 2012) - "Politics, and a Sexologist's Preferred Reality"
(May 10, 2012)
Particularly - " 'Human Costs Always Include Economic Costs' "
(May 7, 2012) - "Love and Intelligence, Faith and Reason"
(April 30, 2012) - " 'Deeds Without Knowledge are Blind' "
(April 23, 2012) - "Earth Day, 2012: This Catholic's View"
(April 22, 2012) - "Genesis, Optimus Prime, and Victorian America"
(April 10, 2012) - "Transhumanism, Bioethics, and Me"
(April 8, 2012) - "The Eighth Day"
(April 4, 2012)
Particularly - "The Beauty of the Universe, God, and Respect"
(March 21, 2012) - "Beauty, Science, and a Crazy Idea"
(March 14, 2012) - "My Take on the News: Hack Attack; Double Standard; Purloined Heart"
(March 9, 2012) - "God, Science, and Getting a Grip"
(March 5, 2012) - "Upset Applecarts: A Hopeful Sign"
(March 5, 2012) - "Life, Death, the Establishment, and Some Guy in Minnesota"
(March 2, 2012) - "My Take on the News: "Jesus-Eating Cult;" Godly Scientist; Insulting Our Intelligence"
(March 2, 2012)
Particularly - " 'Only a Few of His Works Have We Seen' "
(February 27, 2012) - "Angels, Art, and Aliens"
(February 15, 2012) - "Science isn't a Four-Letter Word"
(January 29, 2012) - "Clay, Elementary Particles, Photons, and God"
(January 25, 2012) - " 'In a State of Journeying' "
(January 18, 2012) - " 'Inevitable Progress;' 'We're All Gonna Die;' and Getting a Grip"
(January 16, 2012) - "God Doesn't Make Junk: Or Mistakes"
(November 27, 2011) - "My Take on the News: Stem Cells, Science, and 'The Man with the X-Ray Eyes' "
(November 18, 2011) - "Mephistopheles, Cosmology, and Doctor Faustus"
(November 7, 2011) - "7,000,000,000 People, More or Less: Why I'm Not Alarmed"
(October 31, 2011) - "Ancient Style and Today's Discussions at the 'Vatican Science Academy' "
(October 2, 2011) - "Faustus, Mephistopheles, and a Simple Contract: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"
(September 20, 2011) - "Sex, Science, and the Home Schooling Parent"
(September 17, 2011) - "Gregor Mendel: Friar, Scientist, and Abbot"
(July 20, 2011) - "Evolution, Space Aliens, and Two Millennia of Dealing With People"
(July 5, 2011) - "God, Genesis, the Catholic Church, and Getting a Grip"
(June 22, 2011) - "Climate Changes: So What Else is New?"
(May 16, 2011) - "Arithmetic, God, and Getting a Grip"
(April 25, 2011) - "Earth Day, 2011: Environmental Concerns, Catholic Faith, and Me"
(April 15, 2011)
[mostly links] - "'Frail, Delicate Little Mother Nature?!' (or, getting a grip)"
(April 15, 2011) - "Earth Day, Captain Planet, and Getting a Grip"
(April 11, 2011) - "Pope Benedict XVI, the Big Bang, and Science: No Surprises Here"
(January 15, 2011) - "When to Call Tech Support, When to Read the Bible"
(January 14, 2011) - "Life on Other Worlds, and the Catholic Church"
(January 11, 2011) - "The Pope, Science, and Technology: My Take"
(October 30, 2010) - " 'Endless Cycles?' Science, Analysis, and Getting a Grip"
(October 13, 2010) - "
ArchaeologyPaleontology, Science, and Wishful Thinking"
(October 12, 2010) - "God's Creation: He Seems to Think Big"
(September 23, 2010) - "Science, Religion, and the Pope"
(September 17, 2010) - "Physics and God, Hammers and Architects"
(September 7, 2010) - "Stem Cell Research in the News: My Take"
(August 23, 2010) - "Science, Faith, and Auto Mechanics"
(August 19, 2010) - "Report of a UFO Would 'Destroy One's Belief in the Church?!' "
(August 6, 2010) - "Science and Religion: Another Blogger's Take"
(August 3, 2010) - " 'To Infinity, and Beyond' - And a Plug for Home Schooling"
(June 21, 2010) - "It's Faith and Reason"
(June 19, 2010) - "Science vs. Religion: the Same Tired Old Line"
(June 5, 2010) - " 'Artificial' Bacteria, Genetics, the Vatican, and 'Courage With Caution' "
(May 22, 2010) - "Home Schooling: It May Not be What You Think"
(May 20, 2010) - "Stem Cell Research: Backed by the Vatican, No Kidding"
(April 28, 2010) - "The Catholic Church: Universal. Really"
(April 19, 2010)
Particularly
- "Home Schooling, Religious and Moral Instruction, and American Culture"
(March 6, 2010) - " 'God Created Man in His Image'" wasn't Written by An American"
(January 25, 2010) - " 'If you must see ghosts ...' Materialism, Being Spiritual, and Uncle Deadly"
(December 18, 2009) - "Why Did I Convert to Catholicism?"
(November 24, 2009)
Particularly- The paragraphs starting with "I grew up in America..."
- "Astrobiology, the Vatican, and the Meaning of Our Existence"
(November 12, 2009) - "Copernicus, Galileo, Science and a Reality Check"
(October 26, 2009) - "A Patron Saint of - Scientists?!"
(October 25, 2009) - "Data Dump: Major Earthquakes During the Last Week"
(October 3, 2009) - "Really Old Dust Grains, a Galactic Collision, and a Lively Interest in God's Creation"
(August 10, 2009) - "Dinosaurs, Mutant Chickens, Evolution, and Faith in God"
(June 29, 2009) - "The Pope: Looks Like Saint Paul is in the Tomb of Saint Paul"
(June 29, 2009) - "Donating Umbilical Cord Blood: Good Idea!"
(June 15, 2009) - "Organ Transplants, a Boy's Life, and Japanese Laws and Customs: This Catholic's View"
(June 14, 2009) - "Faith and Reason, Religion and Science"
(March 20, 2009) - "Stem Cell Research: Change Some of Us Won't Live With"
(March 9, 2009) - "Obama's 'No Reproductive Cloning' Promise Doesn't Reassure Me"
(March 9, 2009)
Particularly - "Catholic Church, Creationism, Evolution, Facts and Faith"
(March 5, 2009) - "Medical Ethics and Human Experimentation: Why I Take it Personally"
(February 3, 2009) - "Human Clones Possible: Don't Worry, They're Just for Parts and Research"
(February 2, 2009)
- Me
- "Mice Feel Pain (We knew That) - And Show it Like We do ('No One' Knew That)"
Apathetic Lemming of the North (May 11, 2010) - "Neanderthals and Me: New Data About Old Relatives"
Apathetic Lemming of the North (May 7, 2010) - "Emotions, the Frontal Cortex, The War on Terror, Anarchists, and the Illuminati"
Another War-on-Terror Blog (December 23, 2008)
- Emotions and reason do not play well together
- "Mice Feel Pain (We knew That) - And Show it Like We do ('No One' Knew That)"
- Other folks
- "Unintelligently Designed Article..."
Catholic and Enjoying It! (August 19, 2010) - "Compatibility of Faith and Science"
Christopher's Apologies (August 3, 2010)
- "Unintelligently Designed Article..."
