Tag: Pope Francis

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Associated Press, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Christianity, Curia, elitism, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Evangelical Catholicism, evolution, George Weigel, intelligent design, materialism, media, National Review, newspapers, Pontifical Council on Culture, Pope Francis, religion, Roman Catholic, secularism, sexual misbehavior, Templeton Foundation, Vatican City, young people}

Pope Francis, Evolution, and the Curia

_{Bruce Chapman
April 21, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is “just another office down the street,” as one Vatican insider told me. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animals, anthropocentrism, biocentrism, disabilities, embryo, environment, environmental regulations, Evolution News, human development, human exceptionalism, humankind, humans, nature, nature rights, Pope Francis, Roman Catholic, sanctity of life}

Pope Francis Embraced Human Exceptionalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 21, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism

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The idea of unique human value and concomitant duties are the core of human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Big Bang, Christine Rouselle, creation, creationism, demiurge, evolution, family, freedom, genus, human origins, Humani Generis, Jerry Coyne, life, nature, physical causes, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Pope Pius XII, popes, reason, revelation, Roman Catholic, science and religion, scientists, species, theologians, Townhall, universe, Why Evolution Is True}

On Evolution, Pope Francis Spoke and the Media Got it Wrong

_{Ann Gauger
April 21, 2025

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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According to Pope Francis, evolution per se still requires a Creator and cannot be the result of purely physical causes. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 16, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Ecology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Alasdair MacIntyre, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, creation, de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, Democritus, energy production, error correction, imago Dei, information processing, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, James Tour, materialism, molecules, natural law, Plato, Pope Francis, redemption, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roman Catholic, scientific revolution, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Meyer, stewardship, teleology, University of Notre Dame}

Notre Dame Hosts a Conference on Creation, Including Intelligent Design

_{Brian Miller
November 16, 2022

Cosmology, Ecology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The organizers accepted my abstract for a talk about “The Return of Teleology to the Natural Sciences.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 23, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, crime, Deep Ecology, ecocide, environmentalism, genocide, nature rights, Nazis, pollution, Pope Francis, The Guardian, The Hague, United Nations, University College London}

“Ecocide” — Drive to Make Environmental Damage Legal Equivalent of Genocide Accelerates

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 23, 2021

Bioethics

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If either or both of these radical proposals become law, human thriving and economic prosperity will be brought to a screeching halt. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 20, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Argentina, Bolivia, ecocide, Ecuador, environmentalists, exploration, genocide, geological features, glaciers, human rights, mining, Moon, nature rights, Pakistan, Pope Francis, Science (journal)}

Now, It’s the “Rights of the Moon”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 20, 2021

Bioethics

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It is easy to mock this movement and to not take it seriously. That’s how it will win. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 20, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, birth defects, CIA, Daily Wire, Denmark, Down syndrome, eugenics, Europe, euthanasia, France, From Darwin to Hitler, Germany, human dignity, Iceland, Nazis, Pope Francis, Richard Dawkins, Richard Weikart, sterilization}

Were Nazis More Tolerant of Down Syndrome than Some European Countries Today?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 20, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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Richard Dawkins lashed out at Pope Francis for the latter’s comparing modern eugenic efforts to Nazi precedents that sought to “create a pure race.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 23, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Catholicism and Evolution, criminal justice, CUNY, Darwin's Black Box, death, decay, Douglas Axe, eyeglasses, Father Michael Chaberek, flat earth, Forensics, human eye, intelligent design, John Jay College, John Paul II, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, maxillary sinus, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Nathan Lents, neurosurgeon, physiology, Pope Francis, Stephen Meyer, suffering, testicles, Wall Street Journal, William A. Dembski}

Straw Man: Nathan Lents Versus the Theory of Perfect Design

_{David Klinghoffer
May 23, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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True, things go wrong with our bodies, with results that range from the tragic to the merely expensive or inconvenient. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
March 14, 2013

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, bureaucracy, censorship, George Weigel, materialism, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Francis, Roman Catholicism, Vatican City}

Pope Francis, Evolution and the Curia

_{Bruce Chapman
March 14, 2013

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is run by staff that is friendly to scientific materialists and hostile to many orthodox believers who are scientists. Read More ›