Science, Wonder, and the Existence of God w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. Alexander Pruss

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Alexander Pruss on science, wonder, and the existence of God.

You can watch this interview on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/oclIhR50WZ4

About the speaker:

Alexander Pruss is professor of philosophy at Baylor University. He has two PhDs, one in mathematics and one in philosophy, and does research in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science and philosophy of mathematics. Much of his work is centered on showing how pretty much everything in reality points to the existence of God. His books include The Principle of Sufficient Reason, Infinity, Paradox, and Causation, and One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics. In his spare time, Pruss engages in a variety of hobbies including electronics, software development, and indoor rock climbing where he recently got two Guinness World Records.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Father Gregory Pine, and welcome back to the Timistic Institute podcast for a new
0:15.0	installment of our off-campus conversations. As I follow up with Timistic Institute speakers,
0:23.4	near and far, wherever they are,
0:29.3	whether that be following up on a topic that featured in a lecture that they gave, or maybe just having a conversation that will profit you, the listener, as a way by which better to live
0:35.6	your life of faith, your life of prayer and study, as we seek to become the contemplatives whom God intends us to be.
0:42.3	So for this installment, I'm very delighted to be joined by Professor Alexander Proust.
0:47.3	Thanks so much for joining.
0:48.3	Thank you.
0:49.3	So many folks will know you from your many publications on a wide variety of themes and from
0:55.8	contributions that you've made at various domestic institute chapters in the U.S. and beyond.
1:02.0	But for those who don't know you, would you just say a word of introduction, who you are,
1:06.1	where you're from, and maybe some of what you do?
1:10.0	So I am a philosopher at Baylor University.
1:13.6	So I am a Catholic philosopher at a Protestant university,
1:18.6	teaching there for about 16, 17 years.
1:23.6	I have a PhD in math, a PhD in philosophy.
1:28.3	I occasionally do things on the boundary of the two disciplines, but mostly I do philosophy.
1:36.3	Tremendous. Yeah, I recently had a conversation with Professor Frank Beckwith, and I am one of the many people
1:50.5	enamored with the life of faith and study, which goes on there at Baylor University, because
1:56.7	it's kind of, not that it's anomalous, like, for people to be both believing and studying in the same place.
2:04.9	But it's a cool setting because it's Protestant University, but you have a lot of Catholic faculty and a lot of Catholic students or students who become Catholic in their time there.
2:12.9	Like we've had conversations on the podcast with Scott Cleveland and Daniel DeHan, who though he studied
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