Finding Beauty and Harmony in the Sciences

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Materialist philosopher Bertrand Russell once wrote that "only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation…be safely built.” But is this worldview of scientific materialism in line with what science has revealed to us in the last century? On this episode of ID The Future, we’re pleased to share a recent conversation between Dr. Melissa Cain Travis and author and teacher Dr. Ken Boa on the Explorers Podcast. The topic is beauty, harmony, and truth in the sciences. We are grateful to the producers of the Explorers Podcast for permission to re-broadcast this conversation. Source

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0:00.0	I.
0:03.0	I D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to I. I'm Andrew McDermott. Bertrand Russell once wrote that only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair can the soul's habitation be safely built. But is this worldview of scientific
0:26.6	materialism in line with what science has revealed to us in the last century? On this episode,
0:32.4	we're pleased to share a recent conversation
0:34.9	between Dr. Melissa Kane Travis and author and teacher Dr Ken Boa on the
0:40.6	Explorers podcast. The topic is Beauty in the Sciences.
0:45.0	Dr. Travis is a fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture,
0:50.0	where she serves as an instructor of adult education courses at discovery U.org.
0:57.3	She is the author of Thinking God's Thoughts, Johannes Kepler and the miracle of cosmic comprehensibility, as well as signs and the mind of the
1:06.0	maker, what the conversation between faith and science reveals about God.
1:11.7	In this discussion Dr. Travis expounds on what she calls the principle of
1:16.5	cosmic comprehensibility, the idea that the universe is intelligible to us. She provides examples from the work of CS Lewis as well as early
1:26.4	17th century astronomer and Giant of the Scientific Revolution, Johannes Kepler.
1:31.8	Melissa and Ken also discuss the universal longing for meaning and purpose that's inherent
1:37.0	in human existence, and how even scientific materialists acknowledge this in their work.
1:43.5	Let's listen and know to Dr. Melissa Kane Travis,
1:46.6	speaking with Dr Ken Boa.
1:49.7	Welcome to Explorers, and I'm Ken Boa,
1:52.3	and I'm with my guest Melissa Kane Travis who is the
1:55.5	author of several books on the realm of science but also on wonder of beauty of
2:01.2	the imagination as well as we share a common imagination as well.
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