Going Deeper Than Darwin God And Biological Evolution | Prof. Chris Baglow

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Christopher T. Baglow is the director of the Science and Religion Initiative in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, where he also serves as Professor of the Practice in the theology department. He is the author of the textbook Faith, Science, & Reason: Theology on the Cutting Edge (2nd ed., Midwest Theological Forum, 2019) and his work has been featured by the Word on Fire Institute and in That Man is You, Crux, Notre Dame Magazine and Church Life Journal. He is a consultant for the USCCB Committee on Catechesis and Evangelization, and his thirty-two year career in Catholic education has spanned high school, undergraduate, graduate, and seminary teaching. Baglow earned a bachelor’s degree from Franciscan University of Steubenville, a master’s degree from the University of Dallas, and a doctorate from Duquesne University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Catholic Scientists.

He is best known for his work helping Catholic educators integrate faith and science in their classrooms, most notably for creating and directing the Steno Learning Program in Faith and Science (named for Blessed Nicholas Steno) and the Integrating Faith and Science at Catholic High Schools Nationwide project. Baglow was one of four people to receive an Expanded Reason Award for Teaching in 2018 from the University of Francisco de Vitoria and the Vatican–Joseph Ratzinger Foundation. He lives with his family in the South Bend, Indiana, area.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Temistic Institute podcast.
0:06.2	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:28.6	Welcome to my presentation tonight.
0:31.6	I actually have up here accidentally something that looks like false, because you expected to come to a
0:38.6	talk called Going Deeper Than Darwin.
0:40.6	This is actually the title slide that I use for the very same lecture that I call Going
0:46.2	Deeper Than Darwin for Public Audiences in my faith in science course, a course that I teach
0:50.9	at Notre Dame almost every semester.
0:53.4	It's a second theology course, so everybody at Notre Dame almost every semester. It's a second theology course.
0:55.0	So everybody at Notre Dame takes two theology classes, every undergraduate.
0:59.0	One of them is called Foundations of Theology, and every undergraduate has to take it to graduate.
1:04.0	But then you have your choice from there as to what you take for your second theology,
1:10.0	and my course is among those that people take.
1:12.6	I'm teaching it right now, in fact, and I'll be teaching again in the spring.
1:17.6	And I wanted to share with you that one of the things I do in the class as we begin,
1:21.6	the whole course titles called Faith and Science toward a relational unity.
1:29.8	Where do I get those words relational unity from?
1:35.8	Well, those are words that John Paul II, St. John Paul II, used to describe the Catholic approach to faith and science.
1:37.7	It's about a relational unity in which the two are brought into dialogue with each other,
1:42.0	right, in which they begin to help each other on the path
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