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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

Why Jesus Was a Catalyst for the Sciences

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

ColdCaseChristianity.com

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Is there a reason so many famous scientists from history were Jesus-followers? Is there something about the Christian worldview that encourages an exploration of the natural world? Why have Christians dominated the sciences and what did these Christians say about Jesus? J. Warner answers these questions in this episode of the NRBtv Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast.

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0:00.0

J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders

0:07.2

in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

0:09.4

His work has been featured on Fox News, Dateline, and Core TV.

0:12.8

Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Christiane.

0:18.2

Thanks for joining us at cold-case Christianity, I'm J. Warner Wallace.

0:28.5

Tonight, we're going to be talking about one chapter from my new book, Person of Interest.

0:33.5

You can learn more about that at personofinterestbook.com, and we're going to be talking about the impact

0:38.8

and the fallout in culture that Jesus and His followers had on the sciences.

0:45.2

For those people who might say, well, Jesus really has, you know, Christians don't have

0:48.4

any impact on the sciences, or that somehow Christianity is by its very nature anti-science,

0:53.5

take a look at this presentation, which I did with Brett Kunkle at MavenTruth.com.

0:58.4

I apologize for some of the audio on this, this was an internet presentation, but I think

1:02.8

it's clear enough for you to be able to hear the case for Christianity through the sciences.

1:11.2

So when I see things like this kind of a tweet, 1500 years ahead, if it hadn't been for

1:16.7

the church dragging science back by its co-tales and burning our best minds at the stake, I'm

1:21.8

thinking they don't really understand the history of Galileo all that well.

1:26.1

And this really is kind of quoting a social activist named Catherine Farringer who first

1:31.7

said this kind of thing.

1:33.4

Now, I think the question here is, what do we mean when we use this term, science?

1:39.8

What do we mean by that?

1:41.4

Now remember, I told you that word was not available to the ancients, they called it

1:44.6

natural philosophy.

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