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Thank you everyone who has come out here tonight.

And I think my number one challenge this evening

is going to be to not pull Nathan's iPhone onto the floor.

So if that happens, now at least like sort of set the stage for that minor disaster.

I mean, it's such a pleasure to be here.

As Nathan mentioned, I actually did my undergrad just down the road at Caltech.

And even though I originate from Sweden I must say spending four years

in Southern California has made me not very good at dealing with Boston weather so it's very

this is the right time of year to to stop by here for sure so what I want to talk about is how we can think about the scientific project

and the sort of success of science as a way to gain truths about this word that we live in,

how we can put that in conversation in different ways with the Catholic intellectual tradition, with our faith tradition.

But I want to start with why, since we are so excited about science in our society today,

and maybe even maybe puts it a bit on a pedestal like where it doesn't belong sometimes.

I mean there is sort of a good reason to it.

And that is that the scientific method, a scientific project has been a wonderful thing for humanity.

It has helped us to cure the sick, to feed the hungry, to bring people out of poverty.

These are all the great things.

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