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The Thin Spaces of Our Lives Where Strange Things Do Happen

In the discussion with Batthyány, Egnor suggested that people who inexplicably become more lucid near death are drawing closer to the light of God.

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A conceptual artwork showcasing a robot in prayer, symbolizing faith, spirituality, and worship in a dark room with fire in the background.

Unexpected: ChatGPT and the Return of God

Scott Ventureyra talks about ChatGPT and other large language models (chatbots )AI in the unlikely role of unexpected apologists for Christianity

Far from heralding a coming secular triumph over God, the verbal output of chatbots suggests that, generally, people conclude that God must in fact exist.

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Michael Egnor on Faith, Reason, and the Architecture of Reality

In this week’s podcast, discussion with Robert J. Marks, he talks about the relationship between arguments from philosophical reasoning and faith

Egnor describes faith as a deep relationship that may not always yield happiness about life circumstances but fosters lasting joy, independent of circumstances.

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

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

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.

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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

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.

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