Bioethics
Nicene Guy

Aging and Mortality

A somewhat recent article in Scientific America caught my eye: this one is about aging, or rather it is about reversing the effects of aging.

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Books
Nicene Guy

Book Review: Particles of Faith

Particles of Faith, by Stacy Trasancos, is a must-read for Catholics (and others of good faith) who are weary of the vitriol in the faith-science

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Columnists
Nicene Guy

Militant Scientism

One of my favorite series in science fiction is the “Spiral Arm” series written by Michael Flynn. This series is set in the future, during

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Bioethics
Nicene Guy

The Trouble with Transhumanism

Transhumanism is a desperate belief system that grasps at technological straws. But the raw desperation in that grasping has the potential–like all Utopian movements–to unleash

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Religion
Nicene Guy

Hawking and the Heavens

Chesterton once observed that men generally have two attitudes towards dogma: some consciously recognize their reliance upon it, and others attempt to deny that reliance.

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Columnists
Nicene Guy

Trust Not in Technology

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat (or drink), or about your body, what you will wear. Is

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Columnists
Nicene Guy

Beauty and Nature

It is almost inevitably the first question I am asked in any gathering with more than four of my relatives: “So, what is it that

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Prayer
Nicene Guy

Miracles and Nature

“A small error at the outset can lead to great errors in the final conclusion” (Saint Thomas Aquinas, Being and Essence, quoting Aristotle). There has

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Religion
Nicene Guy

Copenhagen Universes

There is a claim which runs essentially like this: “Quantum mechanics says that the universe can create itself from nothing.” I have previously addressed the

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