Stephen Hawking: Heaven is a "fairy story."
Atheist icon Stephen Hawking has stated his opinion that the universe does not "need" a creator God to explain its existence or complexity. He made sure to blast the Christian belief in heaven, which...
View ArticlePraying "to be seen by men"
In the Gospel, our Lord warns us:"And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: Amen I...
View ArticleLawrence Krauss's Nothing is not Nothing
Atheist apologist Lawrence Krauss's new book A Universe from Nothing takes the final leap in erecting a universe without God by positing the possibility that something truly can come from nothing...
View ArticleWhat is Faith?
The Holy Father has proclaimed 2012-2013 to be the Year of Faith. This is quite appropriate, since the act of Faith in general, and the Catholic Faith in particular, are under a very vociferous attack...
View ArticleContradictions in the Bible (part 1)
Have you ever heard atheists and religious skeptics talk about how the Bible is "full of contradictions"? While defending the Church's traditional teaching on Christ's mediatorship between God and man,...
View ArticleContradictions in the Bible (part 2)
Last time in this series, we discussed the common accusation that the Bible is "full of contradictions" and exposed how these alleged contradictions are based on ignorance, malice and misunderstanding....
View ArticleDeus ex Machina or Fons Entis?
In the ancient Greek plays, it was not uncommon for a protagonist to be saved from a dangerous situation or relieved from an impossible dilemma by the emergence of a deus ex machina ("god from the...
View ArticleProbability and Statistical Impossibility
Late last year, Wall Street Journal columnist Eric Metaxas published an interesting piece titled "Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God". The article argues that recent scientific discoveries...
View ArticleContradictions in the Bible (part 3)
Today we present our final installment in our long series on contradictions in the New Testament with refutations for 63 allegedly contradictory statements from the writings of the Gospels, Acts and...
View ArticleRethinking the Appendix
Since the dawn of the science of human biology in the modern age, it has been taken for granted that the internal organ known as the "appendix" was vestigial. A structure that is "vestigial" is...
View ArticleAlien Civilizations
In June 2016, an article appeared in the New York Times entitled "Yes, There Have Been Aliens." The article was written by University of Rochester astrophysicist Dr. Adam Frank. In this article, Dr....
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