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About Scientific Catholic
To explain the faith in Biblical Israel and Palestine, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ used parables. These parables were simple stories that people could relate to based on their own daily experience at that time. The world is obviously quite different today some 2000 years later, with a great deal more being known of the created world through the use of science. In addition, the average person is more educated than in Biblical times, given that most people can now read and write, which was rare in those days. The daily experience of today may limit or “turn-off” understanding of the parables of the Bible, especially by those who would consider the Bible an old out-of-date book. Therefore the intent of this blog is to provide an explanation of the Catholic faith, using the same principle of teaching that Jesus used – the parable – and then making use of modern science (theory or actual knowledge) for the material within the parable.
The sciences used will include mathematics (the science of all sciences), as well as others such as physics and biology, but will also reference those practical systems well entrenched in a modern society, such as electricity and plumbing. If mixing Catholicism with plumbing seems eclectic, perhaps it is, so use the comment system to provide your input!
Just a final word, to deal with likely inferences. Scientific Catholic is not focused on the debate between creationism and evolution (Darwinism, whether macro- or micro-evolution).
This blog is run by a Catholic priest who is inspired to pursue the New Evangelization in a unique way. “The moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization and to the mission ad gentes. No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.” (Pope John Paul II, Redemptoris Missio, December 12, 1990) All peoples today include the scientifically minded.