Tag: Martin Hilbert

Cameroon, Pongo-Songo, Smiling man with Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) on back

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News
Date
July 27, 2025

Categorized
Evolution, Media

Tagged
David Klinghoffer, Martin Hilbert, Raymond J. De Souza, Scopes Monkey Trial}

Evolution Debate: Today, a Priest Might Win Over Clarence Darrow

_{The National Catholic Register offers an interesting take on today’s hundredth anniversary of the Scopes trial verdict} _{News
July 27, 2025

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Evolution, Media}

Fr. Martin Hilbert argues that causality — design, to use the more loaded term — is written deep into nature, and the best science demonstrates that.

Omega Centuri the largest star cluster in the Earth's sky

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News
Date
April 13, 2025

Categorized
Evolution, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Alasdair MacIntyre, Bruno de Solages, Henri Bergson, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, Martin Hilbert, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Raymond J. Nogar}

Is the Human Race Evolving Toward a Final Spiritual Unity? Part 1

_{Philosopher and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin thought so but many other thinkers have found his Omega point too simplistic} _{News
April 13, 2025

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Evolution, Philosophy of Mind}

His writings caught the imagination of many religiously minded people but they seemed more profound than they really were.

Cave entrance with sunlit stone steps, man ascending stairs towards bright light at end of tunnel. Symbolizing afterlife, near-death experience, inspiration, or hope beyond darkness.

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News
Date
April 8, 2025

Categorized
Near-Death Experiences, Religion, Science

Tagged
Bruce Greyson, Featured, Friedrich Happich, Katharina (Käthe) Ehmer (1896 – 1922), Martin Hilbert, Michael Nahm, Mind vs. brain, Neal Grossman, Pim van Lommel, Vicki Umipeg}

Near-Death Stories: Has An Undiscovered Country Been Discovered?

_{A Catholic priest looks at ways we can understand these brushes with an unseen world} _{News
April 8, 2025

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Near-Death Experiences, Religion, Science}

Fr. Hilbert notes that such documented lucid experiences as he recounts can hardly be the mere outcome of a dying brain shutting down.

Homo heidelbergensis is an extinct prehistoric man. He used more advanced tools than Homo erectus, such as hand axes and spears, and probably fire

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 16, 2025

Categorized
Evolution, Paleontology, Philosophy of Mind, Religion

Tagged
Catholic Case for Intelligent Design (2024), Darwinism vs. Christianity, Featured, Martin Hilbert, Paleolithic era, Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)}

A Catholic Priest Talks About Human Evolution

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert approaches the topic from the perspective of evidence, reason, and faith — and realism about what is at stake in the discussion} _{Denyse O'Leary
February 16, 2025

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Evolution, Paleontology, Philosophy of Mind, Religion}

Fr. Hilbert shows that we have not found anything that justifies a Darwinian approach to life as somehow more compatible with science than a Christian one.

Panoramic view of the Earth, sun, star and galaxy. Sunrise over planet Earth, view from space. Elements of this image furnished by NASA

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 9, 2025

Categorized
Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Religion, Science

Tagged
A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design (Discovery Institute Press 2024), Catholic view of Darwinism, Catholic view of natural selection, Fifth Way (Aquinas), Jonathan Chadwick, Martin Hilbert, Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)}

New Book: The Catholic Case for the Design of Nature

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert notes that the history of life seems more like a separate collection of bushes than a single tree} _{Denyse O'Leary
February 9, 2025

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Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Religion, Science}

The great Catholic theologian Aquinas noted that “what happens in the working of nature is either always, or mostly, for the better,” which rules out chance.