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The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

WOF 412: The Evidence for God from Science w/ Fr. Robert Spitzer

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 5.8K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 13 November 2023

ā±ļø 52 minutes

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Summary

Today, we're excited to share Fr. Robert Spitzer's keynote talk from theĀ 2022 Good News ConferenceĀ onĀ "The Evidence for God from Science."Ā Fr. Spitzer introduces a growing amount of evidence for God found in contemporary science, along with data suggesting a rising number of young scientists who are open to God.

Fr. Spitzer is the President of theĀ Magis Center of Reason and FaithĀ and theĀ Spitzer Center. He has authored several books includingĀ New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and PhilosophyĀ (2010) andĀ Science at the Doorstep to God: Science and Reason in Support of God, the Soul, and Life after DeathĀ (2023).


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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vot, the host and the senior

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publishing director at Word on Fire.

0:13.1

Today we're excited to share Father Robert Spitzer's

0:16.1

keynote talk from the 2022 Good News Conference

0:20.0

titled The Evidence for God from Science.

0:24.0

Father Spitzer introduces a growing amount of evidence for God found in contemporary science,

0:30.4

along with data suggesting a rising number of young scientists who are open to God.

0:37.0

Father Spitzer is the president of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith, as well as the Spitzer Sinner.

0:44.2

He has authored several books, including new proofs for the existence of God,

0:49.1

and his most recent book, which I highly recommend,

0:51.5

just came out from Ignatius Press titled

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Science at the Doorstep to God, Science and Reason in Support of God,

0:58.9

the Soul and Life After Death.

1:01.4

If you want to learn more about the interface between faith and science, Father Spitzer

1:06.0

is your guy and I think you'll really enjoy this talk again called The Evidence for God from science.

1:13.4

Before we begin, however, I wanted to share with you a new book that just released today

1:18.1

from Word on Fire.

1:19.2

It's titled 100 Great Catholic Poems by Sally Reed. Poetry is the language of Catholicism.

1:26.7

From the songs of scripture to the hymns of St. Thomas Aquinas,

1:30.6

the church has always used metaphor and image, meter and rhyme, and the music of language

1:36.9

to illuminate and inculcate the faith.

1:39.7

Yet when it comes to Catholic poetry itself, the song too often remains unsung.

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