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The Eric Metaxas Show

Melissa Cain Travis

The Eric Metaxas Show

Salem Podcast Network

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Christianity, News

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Cain Travis tackles cosmic origins and our role in the grand scheme of things with a few answers from her book "Science and the Mind of the Maker."

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric Mataxas show with your host Eric Mataxas.

0:18.0

Folks, welcome to the Eric Mataxas show.

0:20.8

Many of you know that I recently came out with a book called Is atheism Dead, the first

0:25.9

third of which deals with the inevitable conclusion that seems to me at this point, that science

0:34.3

is pointing to God.

0:36.3

It's astonishing, it's extraordinary, it's little known, which is why I wrote about it.

0:43.4

But in the course of writing my book and in talking about it, I keep bumping into more

0:49.0

and more people who are themselves writing about this and teaching about this and talking

0:54.3

about it.

0:55.3

I recently came across Melissa Cain Travis, she's an assistant professor of Christian

1:01.1

and Pogetics at Houston Baptist University among other things.

1:07.0

And she came out with a book just a couple years ago called Science and the Mind of the

1:10.9

Maker, where the conversation between faith and science reveals about God.

1:16.1

A lot of the stuff that I'm excited about, she is also excited about.

1:20.2

I said, we've got to get her on the program.

1:22.5

So Melissa Cain Travis, welcome.

1:26.2

Thank you, I'm glad to be with you.

1:28.5

So how did you get into this world?

1:31.7

Because what I always am amazed by is how many people just don't know anything about this.

1:35.6

When I talk to Christians who seem to have a reasonable faith, they seem to, but they

1:40.4

themselves have never heard of a lot of this.

1:43.3

So I was excited when I saw your book because you've more than just heard about it, you've

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