Transcending the Evolution-Creation Debate
Originally published at Crisis Magazine on April 12, 2023. Recent scientific developments and philosophical interpretations of these developments can lead to a greater unity among Catholics debating …
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Science and Christian Theology Mutually Inform One Another
Originally published at Crisis Magazine on January 29, 2019. Popular consciousness in the West has affirmed over and over again, like the beating of a drum, that natural science and the…
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An Exploration of the Christian Conception of God and Creation in Understanding the Origin of Consciousness
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Ph.D. in Theology at Carleton University/Dominican University Colleg…
God’s Simplicity, Evolution and the Origin of Embodied Human Consciousness
Originally published in Maritain Studies/Études maritainiennes 32 (2016): 137-155. …
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Challenging the Rehabilitation of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Originally published at Crisis Magazine on January 20, 2015. As the sixtieth anniversary of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s death approaches this April, a renewed interest in his thought…
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Review of Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Originally published in Science et Esprit 67:1 (2015): 126-130. [pdf id=17130]…
Overturning Stumbling Blocks
Originally published in Convivium on June 1, 2014.This is a review of William Lane Craig's book, A Reasonable Response. For well over 20 years, William Lane Craig has debated atheists, inclu…
Nuances Missed in Debate over Creationism
Originally published in the Toronto Star on February 10, 2014.Although Bill Nye is a gifted science educator for children and Ken Ham a well-meaning Christian, the debate seemed counterproductive. It …
Rigorous Arguments
Originally published in the Ottawa Citizen on November 16, 2009. It is unfortunate that in discussing one of the leading figures in the science-religion dialogue, Philip Clayton, a philosopher-the…
Theology’s Fruitful Contribution to the Natural Sciences: Robert Russell’s ‘Creative Mutual Interaction’ in Operation With Eschatology, Resurrection, and Cosmology
Major research paper submitted to the Faculty of Theology, Saint Paul University/University of Ottawa, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Theology in 2009.[pdf id=1…