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200742 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.200742 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2025-05 46 pages Saju, Rohan Clay, Eugene Bruner, Jason Barrett, The Honors College School of Life Sciences This thesis explores the philosophical and theological implications of forensic scientific examinations of Eucharistic miracles, focusing on Ron Tesoriero and Franco Serafini, who compile and interpret scientific data from forensic analyses conducted by various forensic pathologists on reported transformations of consecrated bread and wine into human cardiac tissue and blood. By exploring how these Catholic authors use forensic evidence to prove the doctrine of transubstantiation, this study looks at their attempt to bring together science and religion, rejecting fideism and methodological atheism. This study investigates how Tesoriero and Serafini interpret the existing forensic analyses of Eucharistic miracles to articulate a philosophy of science that reconciles faith and reason, and the implications of their approach to the relationship between science and religion in modern Catholicism. This thesis argues that while Tesoriero and Serafini provide a good framework for integrating science and faith, their method of interpreting forensic evidence still remains unsupported, posing serious philosophical and theological challenges. Specifically, their approach interprets scientific evidence through a predetermined religious framework, which risks confirmation bias and undermines objective analysis. Thus, this study focuses on how Eucharistic miracles provide a distinctive case study about the science and religion interrelationship in the 21st century, highlighting the limitations of using forensic evidence to authenticate supernatural claims in an increasingly evidence driven world. Eucharistic Miracles Science vs. Religion Eucharistic Miracles: Exploring the Divide Between Science and Religion