The Bulletin of the Catholic Association of Scientists and Engineers
March 8, 2005
March Meeting Announcement: There will be a meeting of the members of
the Catholic Association of Scientists and Engineers on Thursday
evening, March 17, 2005 at 7:30 pm. at the James Bates Hall at
Ascension Catholic Church, 12700 Lanham-Severn Road, Bowie, Maryland
20720, Tel: 301 262 2227.
Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB
St. Anselm's Abbey
4501 S. Dakota Ave. NE,
Washington, DC, 20017-2753
Tel: 202-269-6650 Email: djr@lonergan.org
will speak on
Aquinas's Notion of Science
Aquinas had a notion of science that was heavily influenced by the
methodology of Greek science. The science of Aristotle became a
dominant paradigm for understanding how science should be done and this
paradigm dominated men’s minds until well into the 17th Century.
However Aquinas appropriated a number of notions which informed his
understanding of scientific procedure and his understanding of science
contains a number of parallels which related it to the nature and
structure of contemporary modern science. Aquinas's notion of science
cannot be simply rejected as antiquated. How Aquinas's understanding of
science has been understood has perhaps been antiquated and these
mistaken notions should be rejected.
Br. Dunstan Robidoux, OSB was born June 4, 1951 in Canada. He did
philosophy studies in Louvain, Belgium on and off from 1977 to 1984. He
has a licentiate in philosophy. He has done theology studies at the
Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C. and is
presently doing a PhD in theology. He have been a monk at St. Anselm's
Abbey in Washington since 1987. He am the Vice-Director of the Lonergan
Institute for the "Good Under Construction" located at 4501 S. Dakota
Ave. NE, Washington, DC, 20017-2753 tel. 202-269-6650.
February meeting report: We had an exciting meeting in
February. We were especially happy that David Pittman and Jacques
Nguyen could come from Georgia and California respetively to attend our
session on Cold Fusion led by Dr. Scott Chubb. We also had the
presence of Frank and Constance DiVito, Angelita Kelly, Mac
MacPhillips, Dr. Ralph Coan, Mrs. Tony Rieu, Erwin Garcia and
Cassie and Chantal Castro.
Dr. Scott Chubb showed that the outlook for research in the area of low
energy nuclear reactions (LENR) is surely bright--even if “cold fusion”
has been stigmatized up to now by the US physics community. The
CAS+E meeting was videotaped; and members can contact Dr. Francis J
Kelly for copies and further information.
Jacques Nguyen is an old friend of Dr. Kelly. Jacques was a high
official in the South Vietnamese government during the Vietnam
war. He is an expert linguist and interpreted for President
Diem. After the fall of Saigon, he was captured by the Communist
Vietnamese and placed in a death cell for three years of
starvation. He and his companions survived with the supernatural
help of Our Lady’s rosary prayers. After three years he was
released from the death cell and still served eleven more years in
Communist prison until he was released to go to America with his family
in 1990. In America he met Dr. Kelly at St. Mark’s Parish Church
and joined the St. John DeMatha Council of the Knights of Columbus in
Hyattsville, Maryland. In 1990 or 1991 he moved to California and
worked in business, education and politics until the present
time. He participated in the November 2004 election campaign and
is a Member of National Republican Congressional Committee
(NRCC). He was a Speaker of Trust for the President George
W. Bush National Republican Convention at Madison Square Garden, NY
City. He appeared earlier on Thursday morning Feb. 17, 2005 on
the Knights of Columbus Radio Program on WEBR radio in Fairfax County,
Virginia hosted by Dr. Francis J. Kelly. (You can listen each
Thursday morning from 11:00 to noon on the internet at
http://streams.swcast.net/launch.cgi/urbancowgirl777/lo-band.ram
). He told his remarkable story of how his devotion to Our
Lady and her Rosary saved him in the prison. He also told of
recently suffering from cancer of the thymus with a lump the size of
two lemons in his throat. After prayers and devotions to Our Lady
of Fatima, it suddenly disappeared without treatment. (He did not
want to submit to an operation.) This unexplainable cure
astounded his radiological lab technician and seven doctors at Stanford
University Hospital. Jacques can be contacted at
Jacquesnnn@yahoo.com
Dr. Austgen reports: Dr. John Austgen, DDS has sent a videotape
copy of a public access TV program in which he was interviewed about
his position that no virus has been proven to cause AIDS and that the
human immunodeficiency virus is a figment of the imagination of
virologists. He gives a very convincing account of the present
situation in the controversy.
Mac McPhillips contribution: Mr. MacPhillips sent me an interesting
videotape on the problem of dating geological layers. It
described the problems of inferring geological dates from the
stratigraphy of the layers. It represents some of the interesting
geology that is inspired by the followers of the “young earth” idea
that contemplates a very recent creation of the earth in agreement with
a literal interpretation of parts of Genesis.
Future meetings:The dates for the next group of CAS+E meetings here in
Bowie MD are as follows:
April 21, 2005 Tentatively Dr. John Rao, Dietrich von
Hildebrand Institute
May 19, 2005 TBD
June 16, 2005
TBD
July 7, 2005 Tentatively Fr. Stanley
Jaki, Pontifical Academy of Sciences
End of July Tentatively Father
Jacques Arnould OP CNES
If you will be in town at these times and would like to give the talk
on that day please contact me; so I can put you on the schedule.
Please let me know if you want to hold another National meeting at
Catholic University of America in 2006 or 2007.
Sincerely yours, Dr. Francis J. Kelly