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I am a professor of the practice at the University of Notre Dame,

which means that I'm a teaching professor,

but I also direct a program called the Science and Religion Initiative,

which is part of an institute at Notre Dame called the McGrath Institute for Church Life.

So that's what I do.

And I've been working on the relationship between faith and science from the theological perspective

because I'm a theologian, not a scientist, since 2005.

And so today I want to talk to you a little bit about understanding and correcting models of

conflict between faith and science. And this talk is going to be a hybrid. It's going to have

historical elements to it because I want to talk about where the conflict model of science and

religion comes from. But it's also going to have a lot of theology,

especially towards the end, as I try to correct the idea of conflict, right, by giving

examples of great theologians throughout history who certainly did not embody the conflict model.

So do any of you know what the conflict or warfare model of science and religion is?

It's probably pretty easy to figure out from the name, you know. I'll tell you. I know. That's why I came,

right? I'm supposed to be telling you this. It's the idea that scientific inquiry and discovery

and the Catholic faith,

or more generally the Christian faith, Christianity, are intractively opposed to each other, right?

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