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#11922 Faith and Science - Stacy Trasancos

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered: 08:38 – Is there empirical evidence in biochemistry for your God? 17:28 – If AI had free will, could it be blamed? 22:16 – How does the Church deal with how Fr. Georges Lemaître’s work was used to calculate the big bang? 34:22 – Could science prove the existence of God? Have you read Peter Kreeft? Are spirit and matter distinct and disconnected? 45:37 – I’m a Catholic AI engineer. I disagree with the claim that AI sentience cannot exist. I think it’s something we should be concerned with. 52:36 – I have thoughts on AI not being able to have sentience. Its closer to robots. …

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Learn more at realest, your host. Dr. Stacey Trousanko's here this hour, Steve Ray, he wears a, I don't know,

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tour guide hat. I don't know what to call that. It's not quite a Pith helmet, but it's a traveling

0:43.4

hat. And Dr. Stacey Shusankos wears her cowgirl hat. And now we are ready for your faith and

0:50.2

science questions with the Texas accent. You are welcome to call 8883187884. Whatever your

0:58.0

faith and science question is, whether it's for yourself or for someone else, Dr. Stacey is here

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to take it. Dr. Stacey Dr. Sincos, as I always introduce her, scientist and theologian,

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but soon to make my life more difficult, scientist, theologian, and philosopher,

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completing her, working on her graduate degree in philosophy right now, Dr. Stacey Trusankos,

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thank you so much for being here with us.

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Thank you for having me back on. I appreciate it.

1:21.3

Oh, we love it when you're on, and we love it when people call with their faith and science

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questions. It's strange that the Catholic Church,

1:28.8

which has been devoted to learning and science for all this time, one of the number one

1:34.2

obstacles to people accepting the Catholic faith, for some reason, is science.

1:39.2

It's kept me so busy, and I'm very grateful for it, but it's kept me busy and up late at night thinking

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about how do we take this beautiful philosophy from the wisdom of the Catholic Church

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and the theology, kind of like Aquinas did, and marry it with the modern science that we

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have today.

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I see that there's a lot of work to be done there,

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and I'm just very excited to be working on it and teaching about it. I teach a lot of classes

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