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Letter from Paris: Notre-Dame Restored

If the cathedral had lost something of its causal connection to the past, it had reacquired its original colors and with those colors, its intended design. Read More ›
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Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass?

Could ChatGPT ever hope to get close to the creative depth found in Tolkien’s Middle-earth? Read More ›
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Atheist on the Ropes: Piers Morgan Confronts Richard Dawkins About ID and Stephen Meyer

There’s something wonderful about watching Dawkins being compelled to watch Stephen Meyer and then being obliged to respond. Read More ›
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Is Human Psychology Better Explained by Evolution or Design?

“We are survival machines,” wrote atheist biologist Richard Dawkins, “robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.” Read More ›
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In Sapiens, Admissions and Overstatements about Human Evolutionary Origins

Harari’s conjecture — “There are no gods” — forms the very basis for everything he says in the rest of the book. Read More ›
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Atheism’s Myth of a Christian Dark Ages Is Unbelievable

Did Christianity really drag the West into an anti-scientific “Dark Ages,” a period said to stretch from the fall of Rome to 1450 AD? Read More ›

Cardinal Sees Red Over Media Misstatement

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Austria discomfited Darwinists last July when he published an article in the New York Times taking them to task for claims the Church backs Darwin’s theory of evolution. Now on his website, his staff points out that some in “the English-speaking press” misreported a lecture two weeks ago in Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral as “somehow drawing back from his essay in the New York Times.”

Annotation: It has come to our attention that the content of Cardinal Schönborn‘s first catechesis has been mis-reported in the English-speaking press as somehow drawing back from his essay in The New York Times. This is inaccurate, as will be apparent from the full text. In order to clear up this misunderstanding, we are posting here an initial draft of an English translation. (Official and final German and English versions will follow when the lectures are compiled into book form.)

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