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🗓️ 4 May 2023
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This talk was given on March 3rd, 2023 at New York University. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Karin Öberg is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. Her specialty is astrochemistry and her research aims to uncover how chemical processes affect the outcome of planet formation, especially the chemical habitability of nascent planets. Dr. Öberg obtained her B.Sc. in chemistry at Caltech in 2005, and her Ph.D. in astronomy, with a thesis focused on laboratory astrochemistry, from Leiden University in 2009. She did postdoctoral work at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a NASA Hubble fellow, focusing on millimeter observations of planet-forming disks around young stars. In 2013 she joined the Harvard astronomy faculty as an assistant professor. She was promoted and named the Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor in Astronomy in 2016, and promoted to full professor with tenure in 2017. Dr. Öberg’s research in astrochemistry has been recognized with a Sloan fellowship, a Packard fellowship, the Newton Lacy Pierce Award from the American Astronomical Society, and a Simons fellowship. Here recent TED talk explaining some of her research can be found here.
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0:28.6 | Thank you for that introduction and thank you for inviting me to come here. |
0:34.6 | So this was actually the place where I got to know the |
0:37.8 | Mystic Institute and quite a few years ago that happened on the talk by the same |
0:43.0 | father Dominic Legg who will be back in a few weeks to talk to you. And I think he was |
0:48.3 | actually talking about natural law then as well. So it's a, I'm sure it has changed a bit, |
0:56.1 | but it was a wonderful talk, |
0:57.3 | so I highly recommend that you come back for that. |
1:01.2 | So what I'm going to be talking about |
1:02.9 | is science and religion, |
1:04.7 | in more particular science and Catholicism. |
1:08.1 | And I was, as I was thinking about this topic, overcoming the science and religion divide, |
1:18.2 | I realized that I actually don't really want to overcome it too much. |
1:22.6 | I think that there's a lot of mischief that has come out of not properly dividing up the regimes of the scientific project and the regimes of religion. |
1:35.3 | So in the tradition of that good fences make good neighbors, I'm going to be spending most of this talk, talking about what the |
1:45.3 | scientific project is and its limitations, and how that means that many of the, many of the |
1:53.8 | so-called conflicts between science and religion are actually quite readily resolved. |
1:59.4 | But that is not where we want to end. |
2:01.5 | And that's where the overcoming the divide comes back. |
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