Modern Science and the Catholic Faith | Prof. Chris Baglow

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Prof. Baglow's slides can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/5fmmww36 This lecture was given on November 29, 2022, at North Carolina State University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: 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.

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0:50.9	So I'm here today to address the idea that many of you may have already heard.
0:56.0	So I'm going to ask you if you've ever heard of a conflict between Christianity and modern science.
1:03.9	Raise your hand.
1:05.0	Okay.
1:05.9	Most of you are aware of that.
1:07.2	I'll actually share some sociological data a little bit later to show that a lot of people have thought about a conflict between faith and science. And I want to talk about the root of
1:17.3	that idea, go into that a little bit more in just a second. Before I do, I actually want to offer you
1:22.5	something to look at and think about that I'll get back to in my talk.
1:36.2	And it's an image that's only, whoops, partially represented on the first slide, but more fully represented here.
1:38.6	It's a political cartoon by the famous American political cartoonist Thomas Nast, who was the greatest political cartoonist of his day in the late 19th century.
1:48.0	I'll just let you look at that for a few minutes. Try to catch some of the details there, up to and including the words on the bottom.
1:56.0	So the significance of this image will become more important to understanding and why it's related
2:02.9	to the whole idea of conflict between faith and science a little bit later in the lecture.
2:07.5	But I want to address this idea, the conflict, what is oftentimes called by historians of science,
2:14.5	the warfare model of science and religion in this lecture. Specifically,
2:19.8	the idea that scientific inquiry and the Christian faith, and I'm going to focus as a Catholic
2:25.5	theologian on the Catholic faith and the church, that they are intractively opposed to each other,
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