If you’ve ever thought that faith and science are in conflict, come listen to Professor Christopher Baglow sort out a variety of misconceptions, including the apparent antagonisms of creation and evolution, and Sacred Scriptures and modern science.
Chris Baglow, P.h.D., is Professor of the Practice in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and the Director of the Science and Religion Initiative of the McGrath Institute for Church Life
Professor Roberto Dell’Oro, Director of the Bioethics Institute and Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, will serve as faculty respondent.
PAST EVENTS IN THE SCIENCE AND RELIGION SERIES
Is There Evidence of God In Contemporary Cosmology?
In his last scientific paper in 2018, Stephen Hawking and his co-author, Thomas Hertog, joined the ranks of other physicists in expressing the high unlikeliness of our universe being generated by an infinite multiverse through eternal inflation. He went on to say that any multiverse that could generate our universe would have to have a beginning and be finite with a relatively small number of bubble universes. When we combine this with the predicted domination of Boltzmann Brains and Brief Brains in an infinite multiverse, it seems increasingly likely that there is a beginning of physical reality and that fine-tuning for life may not be explicable through purely naturalistic causation, implying the possibility or likelihood of transcendent intelligence. On Thursday, November 3, Father Robert Spitzer of the Magis Institute explained these new developments and their implications for a robust connection between physics and metaphysics – faith and reason. Click here for an audio file of Father Spitzer’s lecture.
The Spiritual Sense of Scripture
The Roman liturgy, the Fathers of the Church, and the great medieval theologians all interpret Sacred Scripture in light of the early disciples' most primitive experience of the Risen Lord. On Wednesday, September 26, Fr Francisco Nahoe OFMConv probed ancient methods for understanding our encounter with the eternal Word, by gifting the Nova Forum with an overview of the literal and spiritual senses of the Bible.
