The Error of Beginnings and the Beginning of Errors: Cosmology and Creation | Prof. Warren Carroll

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🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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This talk was given on March 23, 2023 at the University of Dallas. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Dr. William E. Carroll is Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Philosophy at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Wuhan, China) and Senior Research Fellow at the Collegium of Anton Neuwirth (Bratislava, Slovakia). His specialty is the relationship among the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology, with an emphasis on Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of the doctrine of creation. He is the author of works and articles including Creation and Science: Has Science Eliminated God?; Galileo: Science and Faith; and (with Steven Baldner) Aquinas on Creation. Beginning in 2013, he has spent several weeks each year giving lectures and seminars at various Chinese universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Wuhan.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.7	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.6	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:22.2	visit us at Thomisticinstitute.org.
0:30.0	What I'm going to talk about this evening is a subject which I also talk about in China.
0:36.4	I give lectures on this topic
0:38.0	at maybe 10 to 12 different Chinese universities. So as you're listening,
0:44.5	might think about if you were a Chinese student, what you might think of this subject.
0:53.4	And I give courses on this material
0:58.1	at different Chinese universities.
1:01.8	On the handout, there are some texts
1:04.5	that I'm going to refer to.
1:05.9	And you have my email address at the very end.
1:10.4	There's a slight numbering problem.
1:12.3	And also this was the, it probably has the January date on it.
1:16.6	Right, I was going to come here in January,
1:18.5	but I wasn't able to make it.
1:19.9	So to save a few trees, Alexa decided not
1:24.6	to make copies with a new date on it, with a new date on it.
1:32.8	The theme of this lecture, I didn't put out, is from Thomas Aquinas Latin.
1:37.6	It's almost English.
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