How Science Is Unexpectedly Taking Us Closer to Faith | Spencer Klavan

The Rubin Report

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Spencer Klavan about the inspiration behind his book, "Light of the Mind, Light of the World: Illuminating Science Through Faith"; how the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the dangers of treating science as a quasi-religion; the historical relationship between science and religion, where early science was rooted in religious belief; how quantum physics points to a complex reality that includes consciousness and transcendent principles; the need to reintegrate faith and science for a more humane approach; the potential and risks of AI; the role of human consciousness in understanding reality; and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's a crazy world, crazy world,
0:04.4	somebody's gotta have the same news.
0:10.4	It's a crazy world.
0:13.0	It's a crazy world.
0:15.0	Somebody's got a half the same
0:18.0	somebody's got to have the same news. Joining me today is the host of the Young Heretics Show and the author of the new book,
0:36.0	Light of the Mind, Light of the World, Illuminating Science Through Faith,
0:41.0	my old friend Spencer Clavin.
0:42.0	Spencer, welcome back friend Spencer Clavin.
0:42.6	Spencer, welcome back to the Rubin Report.
0:45.0	Dave, great to be back, always good to see you.
0:47.8	How are you, my friend, you multi-time author, you?
0:51.7	This is book number two officially yeah I lose count at two I
0:56.0	sort of stop being able to I don't I can't count that high but I am proud to say
1:00.2	that unlike Kamala Harris I did not copy paste any sections from
1:04.4	Wikipedia into this but it's really hard to write a book without doing that so
1:07.9	please you know please clap. Yes congratulations for not having your ghost writer plagiarize the book.
1:15.0	That's the big story around Kamala this week, which it's got to be nice to be
1:18.1	releasing a book on a week like that. But yes, you were at two books according to
1:22.0	what you just told me and the numbers that I'm seeing in front of me.
1:24.4	Your dad has written, Andrew Clavin of course has written like 7,000 books, so you have a lot of work to do basically.
1:30.6	Time is on my side because he can't keep writing and living forever.
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