Genesis & The Big Bang: Are They Compatible? (#264)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Be sure to watch the video version of this episode with slides here: https://youtu.be/F3P1ZtLZd9s Genesis & The Big Bang “If You Can Count the Stars, A Jewish Astronomer’s Journey! Think back to the late-night dorm room discussions from your college days. We are going to talk about cosmology, the Big Bang, and more from two perspectives, from the perspective of an astrophysicist and the perspective of a Torah observant Jew and ask what they may have in common, and how they differ. How can you reconcile when one seems to be in conflict with the other? I think it's very, very crucial for modern people, secular or religious, to confront. It is said the signature of God is truth. So if something isn't true, then it can't be found to be resonant with notions of eternal truth and perhaps ultimate truth. I'll take you on my Jewish journey which will take us around the planet, and, and maybe beyond. And then I'm going to have some interesting confluences between the study of what we do in cosmology and also something that the Torah speaks about a great length, which is the most humble substance in the world -- dust, and hopefully we'll see a delightful connection between those. And then a simple question, if we have time, can science to prove God? That's the question I get second most after "how can you be a scientist and believe in God and the Torah?" And then the third most frequent question I get is, can science prove God's existence? Join me for an exploration of religion and science, including My Jewish journey, How much cosmology is in the Bible? And can science prove God exists? Plus problems with Gerald Scroeder's God and the Big Bang and more! Connect with me: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! Can you do me a favor? Please leave a rating and review of my Podcast: 🎧 On Apple devices, click here, scroll down to the ratings and leave a 5 star rating and review The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. 🎙️On Spotify it’s here 🎧 On Audible it’s here Other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast Support the podcast on Patreon or become a Member on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:16.1	Open the pod bay doors, please, hell. So tonight we're going to go on a journey through space and time, all the way from the land of Canaan to the South Pole to Chile and beyond.
0:28.8	I will give an overview of what the Torah says about cosmology if we can endeavor to ask such a question and how the Torah relates to science in general.
0:40.0	I'll have a little explication of something that really resonates with me,
0:44.3	passages in the Torah that I find particularly
0:48.6	brilliant and full of wisdom, and then I'll conclude with some homework.
0:55.0	I'll actually start with some homework too.
0:57.0	So let me share my screen and there'll be questions at the end
1:01.0	and you're welcome to ask them in the chat room as well as
1:05.4	I'm holding them to the end I'll do the Q&A itself and I want to welcome my friends
1:11.2	on the East Coast to see a bunch of you out there on the East Coast.
1:14.0	Thank you for staying up late. Hopefully it'll be worth it. But as you know, we astronomers, we do it in the dark. We're used to staying up all night and then sleeping during the day.
1:24.7	So hopefully you'll get a little taste of what life is like for a professional astronomer.
1:29.7	So I call this if you can count the stars and the reason why that'll become apparent hopefully
1:35.5	in just a little bit and that'll be kind of the theme and it will relate to this project that
1:40.4	I've been involved with for the last couple of years which I call into the impossible
1:44.9	Which is to try to test as Sir Arthur C Clark the namesake of the center at UCSD that I am associate of, we aim to push the boundaries of the
1:55.1	possible by seeing the limits of going into the impossible and we're going to
2:00.3	see that that is a mission as old as our people as our history.
2:05.0	And hopefully that will become clear as we go on.
2:06.9	We're going to talk very quickly about cosmology from two different perspectives, the perspectives
2:12.3	of an astrophysicist,
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