Science&Faith

Recently I presented an overview of my ideas in an ITEST seminar called Black Holes & Free Will  (my part starts at the 41 minute mark) Science&Faith Great Catholic Scientists (first 43 , next 48 , last 60) Catholic Civilization (part I , part II) La Milagrosa Guadalupana Eucharistic Miracles God's Fingerprints Why Science&Religion? The Anthropic Principle The Origin of the human Family (part I , part II , part III) On the Science of Medjugorje (part I , part II) The Mother of all Proofs of God Faith St Michael's Spear (part I , part II , part III) Rosary Miracles Charles Williams, a first encounter Mini-catechism for Non-conformists What happened to the Apostles Chronology of Redemption The Trinity in the Old Testament God's Immanence Jesus' Self-claims Three Pope Parrallels Catholic Dogma in the Koran St Joseph, patron of the Universal Church Mary Magdalene, of Bethany The Womb of Salvation Paradise Musings on the Soul The 'Terrible' Truth Science ...

The brilliant author and lay-theologian Charles Williams ( CW , see another Blogpost ) stated: "Most people are, effectively, dualists." It is very natural to look at the world in terms of opposites: male / female, light / dark, we / them, good / bad, pleasant / painful. We certainly need to make distinctions in order to make the world intelligible. And we definitely need to have preferences in order to make decisions, to live our lives. One preference we naturally share for sure is that we abhor pain (and emotional probably even more than physical). Pain also makes us feel that the world was not meant that way. As the great apologist G.K. Chesterton remarked: "Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved." Then pain must somehow be a punishment, if not for our personal faults then for those of our anchestors, right? Thus pain is to make us suffer for some bad act and happines...