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Purposeful Universe2 min read

Purposeful Lab: Crash Course in Evolution

Dan Kuebler offers a crash course in evolution, summarizing convergence in evolution, as well as how the first humans emerged from the hominin species.
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Purposeful Lab: How Can a Loving God Allow Evil?

How can a loving God allow evil? Suffering must be present so we can strive towards perfection and understand the power of hope, love, and other virtues.
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Purposeful Lab: Reconciling Genesis and Evolution

Dan, Catherine, and Mathew Tsakanikas discuss ways to interpret Genesis, Mosaic authorship, and Genesis and evolution from a Catholic perspective.
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Purposeful Lab: Catholic Church and Evolution

Dan and Katherine discuss how to reconcile the Catholic Church and evolution, and how to reconcile evolution with being made in the image of God?
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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S., MSc.4 min read

Intelligence Series Part 3: Does Intelligence Define us as Humans?

Does intelligence define us as humans? In some ways yes, but beyond our brains, creativity is one of the hallmarks of being human.
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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S., MSc.4 min read

Intelligence Series Part 2: Can Aristotle Give Insights into Intelligence?

Cognitive neuroscience corresponds with Aristotle’s 4th century BCE description of a “passive” and an “active” intellect
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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S., MSc.5 min read

Intelligence Series Part 1: It Might Not Mean What You Think It Means

With Artificial Intelligence and developmental biology finding intelligence at molecular and cellular levels, we must ask: What is intelligence?
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Purposeful Lab: Neuroscience and the Need for Relationship

Purposeful Lab Season 2 reaches its conclusion in Episode 6, where Dan interviews Sofia Carozza on the role of love and relationship in neuroscience.
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Purposeful Lab: Probing the Subatomic World

Join Dan and Catherine as they delve into a conversation on the subatomic world with Dr. Aaron Dominguez, a renowned particle physicist.
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Purposeful Lab: Is Extraterrestrial Life Compatible With Christianity?

Dr. Matthew Tsakinakas joins Dan and Catherine to discuss extraterrestrial life and Christianity.
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Purposeful Lab: How Do We Know What We Know with Fr. Gregory Pine

Father Gregory Pine discusses epistemology and how do we know what we know on the Purposeful Lab Podcast with Dan Kuebler and Catherine Hadro.
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Purposeful Lab: The Universe, Multiverse, and Beyond with Stephen Barr

We discussed mysteries of the universe with Stephen Barr, who shared valuable insights on quantum physics, multiverse theories, science, and theology.
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