Is there a Homo optimus in your future?
Homo optimus and the God is Dead Morality The saying goes that “truth is stranger than fiction”...
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Tag: evolution
“First Human” Discovered in Ethiopia: What It Means For Catholics
Last week, Professor Brian Villmoare’s team at the University of Nevada Las Vegas reported...
Read MorePope Benedict XVI on Creation and Evolution: “Complementary Realities”
In 1981, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Ratzinger, developed a catechesis for adults on the creation narratives because, he noted, creation catechesis was nearly absent from teaching, preaching, and theology. His...
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Five Questions From Catholics About Evolution
In elementary school, children learn about dinosaurs and fossils, how fossils form, how...
Read MoreYou are Dust: The Chemical Origin of Life
On Ash Wednesday, the minister marks the cross on our foreheads with ashes and says, “Remember, you are dust and to dust you will return.” It is a reminder that we are human, that in death our bodies will remain on the earth and...
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When Children Wonder if Faith Conflicts With Science
My first grader, Lucy, is learning about Adam and Eve, Original Sin, and The Fall....
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Does the Church Say Humans Evolved from Matter?
After Pope Francis’ comments last week about evolution and the Big Bang, a mommy-friend...
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