Fr. Michael Chaberek

Michael Chaberek is a Dominican friar who holds a doctorate in fundamental theology. He is an author of books and articles on science and faith. He has been a post-doc student at Discovery Institute. Currently he works for En Arche Foundation in Poland which promotes intelligent design. His website is www.mchaberek.com.

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Catholicism and Evolution: A Response to Stephen Barr

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
January 28, 2026}

These publications are far from telling, in Barr’s words, “the full story of how the Church did react to the theory of evolution.”

Postcard from Warsaw: Are Christians Doomed to Evolution?

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
July 9, 2025}

At our conference, we discussed the parallels between Communism and Darwinism. Perhaps the two are fated to meet the same end.

Return of the God Hypothesis in Poland

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
June 10, 2024}

Has the God hypothesis indeed returned? When Darwin presented his theory, it seemed that science had thoroughly confirmed a complete naturalistic paradigm.

Faith, Science, and Secularization — An Illuminating Conference in Poland

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
June 20, 2023}

Similar to many others among the founders of modern science, Copernicus was a believer in God and clearly a proponent of intelligent design.

God’s Grandeur

_{The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design}_{Ann Gauger, Michael J. Behe, Michael Egnor, Jay W. Richards, Fr. Michael Chaberek, J. Budziszewski and Bruce Chapman
April 18, 2023}

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary. Pope Benedict XVI The world — indeed, the universe — is charged with grandeur. Everything speaks of its beauty, power, and purpose — of its exquisite and intelligent design. Yet many scientists today flatly deny that the world was intelligently designed. Even some Christian scientists and theologians downplay or deny the evidence nature supplies of intelligent design, especially in biology. This thought-provoking anthology shows why they are wrong, why it matters, and why intelligent design provides a compelling way to reconcile science and faith in today’s culture. God’s Grandeur challenges the …

Why Aquinas and Darwin Don’t Mix

_{Michael Chaberek
August 27, 2018}

On this episode of ID the Future, host Jay Richards talks with Fr. Michael Chaberek about Charles Darwin and medieval scholar Thomas Aquinas, one of the most influential of all Western philosophers, and especially central in Roman Catholic thinking. Many Catholic scholars support neo-Darwinism and insist that Aquinas’s work nicely harmonizes with neo-Darwinism. Chaberek, author of the recent book Aquinas and Evolution, and creator of the new website Aquinas.design, offers several reasons to conclude otherwise. A clarifying note on terminology: When Chaberek and Richards speak of “accidents” and “accidental changes,” they don’t mean it in the common sense of “not on purpose.” In Thomistic philosophy, an “accident” is a feature of some being that’s not …

The Five Arguments Stand: Response to a Critic on Aquinas and Evolution

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
May 14, 2018}

In my book, I argue that Thomas Aquinas’ teaching cannot be reconciled with theistic evolution.

Aquinas and Evolution

_{Why St. Thomas's Teaching on the Origins is Incompatible with Evolutionary Theory}_{Fr. Michael Chaberek
April 28, 2017}

To show the substantial incompatibility (contradiction) between Thomas Aquinas’s teachings and theistic evolution we need to refer to the two levels of his intellectual enterprise. One is the level of philosophy (metaphysics); the other is the level of theology. Whereas philosophy is based entirely on the principles of natural reason and being (reality) without the help of revelation, theology is a rational reflection on the supernatural revelation given by God. These two levels can hardly be separated in Aquinas. Aquinas’s philosophy excludes the three grand claims of theistic evolution. Additionally, his theology contains a positive doctrine of creation which is quite different from theistic evolution. Table of Contents Foreword Chapter I: Status Quaestionis The older …