Ryan Anderson - What is Marriage?

Ryan Anderson gives a thoughtful and well-reasoned talk on the marriage debate from a public policy point-of-view.




Link to video of Q&A segment.

Fr. Robert Barron on Bill Maher and Biblical Interpretation

Science and the Existence of God

Scientific Fundamentalism?

August 2010 – Word on Fire Blog.

Robert Mixa responds to Lawrence Krauss's recent article in Scientific American which makes the popular claim that religion and science are at odds. Read below for Mixa's fact-filled rebuttal.

The myth that science and religion are irreconcilable is a hardy perennial among contemporary “intellectuals.” Lawrence Krauss’s recent article in Scientific American (“Faith and Foolishness,” August, 2010) is just one more example of the trend.
Dismayed by the perpetuation of this myth, I sent a link of the article to my friend, who is working on his PhD in philosophy. Since his dissertation research deals extensively with the philosophy of science, he was able to give me a lot of insight into the problems with Krauss’s argument.
As we discussed the article, we began to realize that Krauss’s construal of all religion as fundamentalism is, in fact, itself a fundamentalism which is not capable of understanding the unique Catholic synthesis of Faith and Reason, and which arrives at its anti-religious conclusions through selective use of evidence.

Continue reading at Fr. Robert Barron's Word On Fire - Culture: Faith and Foolishness?

IS ATHEISM RATIONAL? IS RELIGION? - New Oxford Review

By Carl Sundell, May 2010.

“… perhaps we might begin to suspect that the atheist's position is rooted not in the intellect but in the will. Is it possible that the atheist does not want God to exist, and that he therefore orders his intellect to supply the necessary objections? It certainly seems so. There isn't any reasonable argument why men should choose to live in a purposeless universe and be doomed to eternal death. It becomes all the less reasonable a choice when we remember that there is not and cannot be any shred of proof that God does not exist or that we exist without an ultimate purpose. Then why choose atheism? Why would anybody want God not to exist?”

Read full article at the New Oxford Review

Finding God through Faith and Reason - Episode 1 of 13 Episodes