Science and Faith in the Secular Age | Professor Jonathan Lunine

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🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 19th, 2023, at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: https://thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Jonathan Lunine is the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and Chair of the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University. Lunine is interested in how planets form and evolve, what processes maintain and establish habitability, and what kinds of exotic environments (methane lakes, etc.) might host a kind of chemistry sophisticated enough to be called "life". He pursues these interests through theoretical modeling and participation in spacecraft missions. He works with the radar and other instruments on Cassini, continues to work on mass spectrometer data from Huygens, and is co-investigator on the Juno mission launched in 2011 to Jupiter. He is on the science team for the James Webb Space Telescope, focusing on characterization of extrasolar planets and Kuiper Belt objects. Lunine is currently PI for a JPL-led study to send a probe into Saturn's atmosphere and has contributed to mission concept studies for space-based astrometry and microlensing missions. Lunine is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has participated in or chaired a number of advisory and strategic planning committees for the Academy and for NASA.

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1:16.5	What I want to do is, well, what I've been told to do, actually,
1:18.9	is be a little bit autobiographical,
1:26.2	and then transition from that into my impressions of what it really means to be a scientist or to be training as a scientist,
1:29.2	or for that matter, someone in the health professions,
1:31.7	because I know we're on a medical campus here,
1:34.8	in an age where essentially society is secular
1:40.8	and to some extent antithetical or antipathic antithic against to some extent religion.
1:52.0	So as an antipathy religion, how about that?
1:57.0	So this is my personal view and I would welcome your comments, discussions.
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