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I want to zoom out and talk about this question on whether science and faith are compatible.

And I think the reason that I was asked to talk about this topic is that many of us have some intuitions that there might be a problem there, that they might not be compatible.

And here, I'm going to go back and forth sort of dimming the light,

because here you need to be able to see,

so half of the screen is lighter than the other half.

So you're going to have to take my word for it,

that in this fabulous painting of Galileo standing up to the Dominicans, that there's like a

slight sort of halo around Galileo as he's standing up for reason against the prejudices of

faith here, nicely illustrated by three slightly dour-looking Dominicans.

So I think when most of us, like where this intuition comes from, I would propose that it is

often from illustrations like this rather than thinking deeply about what these conflicts

might actually be and whether we agree with the reasons behind them.

So we are not going to be thinking about, like looking at too many of these pieces of art.

We're instead going to try to apply our reason to these questions and think through what kind

of conflicts could we come up with. So follow our great teachers in Thomas

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