Degrees

Ph.D., Theological Ethics, Vanderbilt University (1994). Dissertation: "The Relationship of Politics and Ethics to Physics and Metaphysics in Aristotle."

M.A., Religion, Vanderbilt University (1986)

B.S., Political Philosophy, Furman University (1983). Phi Beta Kappa.


Professional Positions

2002-present: Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute,

2001-present: Lecturer, Theology and Science Franciscan University of Steubenville

2000-2001: Assistant Professor of Classics/Honors, Franciscan University of Steubenville

1996-2000: Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, Calif.)

1991-1996: Assistant Professor, Philosophy, St. Mary's University (Winona, Minn.)

1990-1991: Assistant Professor, Theology, St. Mary's University (Winona, Minn.)

1989-1990: Lecturer, Theology, Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisc.)

1988-1989: Instructor, Theology Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisc.)

Publications

Books

Architects of the Culture of Death, with Don. DeMarco (San Francisco: Ignatius, 2004)

The Mystery of the Periodic Table of Elements (Bathgate, N.D.: Bethlehem Books, 2003)

Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2002)


Articles

"The Ruination and Restoration of Scripture" Crisis (November 2004)

"Why You Must Vote" Crisis (October 2004)

"The Death of Morality" Crisis (July/August 2004)

"The Meaning-Full Universe" Crisis (April 2004)

"Mugged by the Muse" Crisis (March 2004)

"The Problem of Evil" Crisis (December 2003)

"Going Native: Life in the Country" Crisis (October 2003)

"Does Science Point to God? The Intelligent Design Revolution" Crisis (Part 1: April 2003; Part 2: July/August 2003)

"Gentleman’s Astronomy" Crisis (January 2003)

"Alien Ideas: Christianity and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life" Crisis (November 2002)

"Playing Games with Good and Evil" Crisis (May 2002)

"Don’t Wear That Mini to Mass" Crisis (April 2001)

"Drawing a Hemline: Sexual Modesty and the Pursuit of Wisdom" Crisis (July/August 2000)
"The Invention of Heck" Crisis (November 1999)

"A Building That Teaches" Catholic World Report (February 2003)

"The Privilege of Life on Earth" Catholic World Report (November 2001)

"Looking Inside Darwin’s Black Box" Catholic World Report (December 2000)

"A New Scientific Revolution" Catholic World Report (July 2000)

"Darwin and the Descent of Morality" First Things (November 2001)

"Darwin as Epicurean" Touchstone (October 2002)

"Facts to the Wind" National Review Online (February 2002)

"Do You Bonobo? Meet Our Make-Love-Not-War Primates" National Review Online (October 2001)

"True Equality" Academic Questions (Spring 1999)

"Inquisition in the Catholic Church" Lay Witness (April 2000)

"From Athens to Rome to California" Lay Witness (March 1998)

"Nature to Grace: the Great Books and Catholic Literature" Sursum Corda! (Spring 1997)

"Intelligent Design vs. Blind Evolution: the Moral Implications" New Oxford Review (March 2001)

"You Have Ten Minutes To Prove the Existence of God to My Husband" New Oxford Review (September 2000)

"The Christian and the Epicurean" New Oxford Review (July/August 1999)

"The Looming Civil War over Abortion" New Oxford Review (February 1999)

"Loving Thy Neighbor into Big-Time Trouble" New Oxford Review (July/August 1998)

"The Repaganization of the West" New Oxford Review (May 1996)

"Unplanned Parenthood" Caelum et Terra (Summer 1996)

"When Goodness is Boring" Caelum et Terra (Fall 1995)

"Church Architecture and the American Character" Caelum et Terra (Summer 1995)