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Archive for June, 2010

Catholic Teaching, Natural Science and the Social Fallout of Evolution

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

Saturday, June 12, 2010, Berwyn, IL
Hugh Owen
Conference on Creation and Evolution, hosted by the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation
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On the heels of Charles Darwin and other thinkers, the nineteenth century saw a movement of secular humanism in which the claim was made that science could explain everything without God, explains Hugh Owen, director of the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation. By relying only on science, proponents believed that a heaven on earth could be achieved. Since then, Joseph Stalin and other forces in the modern world have used the theory of evolution as a tool to dismantle belief in God the creator and introduce their own godless systems. How does God react to all of this?

Owen also relates the moving story of his own father’s loss of faith in college after being taught evolution, and how his subsequent attempt as a high-ranking United Nations official to bring about a harmonious world ended in disappointment.

Intelligent Design and the Flaws of Evolution

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

Saturday, June 12, 2010, Berwyn, IL
Tim Murnane
Conference on Creation and Evolution, hosted by the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation
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Is evolution a proven fact? Don’t believe it! Tim Murnane, a metallurgical engineer, talks about the evidence for intelligent design from the perspective of molecular biology. Many scientists today, some of whom are agnostic, deny that all living things in the world came about by evolutionary chance. Murnane also traces the four books written since 1987 that form the bedrock of the intelligent design movement, and then explains how protein production is so complex as to defy the belief that molecules evolved into man.

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