Introduction

Because Catholic Theologians consciously fail to revise and rebuild the intellectual architecture of their faith -- and because they deliberately refuse to accommodate the discoveries of science over the 3000 years since their God was invented by a tribe of unenlightened shepherds and farmers, they are forced to maintain an inflexible policy of deliberate obscurantism.

I use arguments from science (in layman's terms) — evolutionary biology, geology, archaeology, anthropology, particle physics, astronomy, and cosmology — to demonstrate the validity of this proposition. I have been a student (and victim) of Catholic Theology for more than 65 years. Over the last seven years (since my retirement), I have devoted nearly all of my time to learning and understanding the revelations of modern science — and to recognizing how incompatible they are with the "infallible" dogmas of the Pope and his minions.

I have a Ph.D. in English, and I have completed 42 years of teaching on the college level. I am now Professor emeritus of English at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Questions of Existence

My book is devoted to the questions which all peoples have tried to answer since the dawn of civilization: "Where do we come from? Where are we going to? What are we here for? What the hell's it all about?"

Neuroscience and the Soul

The findings of modern neuroscience prove — with carloads of experimental and observational data — that, without the material substrate of the brain, there can be no consciousness: that is, there can be no soul that survives the death of the body. The correlative point is that we now have empirical proof that "God" did not magically inject a supernatural soul into a single-celled zygote at the precise moment of its conception — because there is no such entity.

Catholic Theologians cannot recognize the truth empirically demonstrated by modern neuroscience — the fact that there is no such entity as a supernatural soul. Their only recourse is to maintain a policy of inflexible obscurantism — in plainer words, a "theology" of systematic prevarication.