1. Faith and Science Are They Compatible?
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February 9, 2014

2. Prelude Pope John Paul II
3 December 2018
Prelude
Faith therefore has no fear of reason, but seeks it out and has trust in it. Just as grace builds on nature and brings it to fulfilment, so faith builds upon and perfects reason.
Pope John Paul II
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3. Question 1: Answers: The School of Athens Raphael
3 December 2018
The School of Athens Raphael
Question 1:
Where are the “Laws of Physics” that govern matter and energy.
Answers:
Plato: In a transcendent heaven of ideal forms.
Aristotle: In the things themselves.
Modern Physicist: There are no “Laws of Physics”
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4. Question 2: Answer: Indiana Jones Spielberg
3 December 2018
Indiana Jones Spielberg
Question 2:
Does SCIENCE reveal the truth?
Answer:
Materialist science does not acknowledge the existence of transcendent “truth”.
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6. Philosophy without the “natural”
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Philosophy without the “natural”
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PROBLEM 1 with this view
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Pope John Paul II
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PROBLEM 2 with this view
Dirac’s equation for a relativistic electron: Solutions are 4-component complex numbers and negative energy solutions are possible, but what does that mean? The negative energy solutions represent antimatter, which was subsequently discovered
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9. Question 3: Answer: Newton, Einstein, and Dirac What’s with the hair?
3 December 2018
Newton, Einstein, and Dirac
Question 3:
What’s with the hair?
Answer:
Theoretical physicists often do not care about the appearance of their hair.
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10. Answer: The real Question 3: Ecce Homo Antonio Ciseri
3 December 2018
Ecce Homo Antonio Ciseri
The real Question 3:
Can we know the truth?
Answer:
Catholics believe we can.
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11. 3 December 2018
Faith
Whether we admit it or not, there comes for everyone the moment when personal existence must be anchored to a truth recognized as final, a truth which confers a certitude no longer open to doubt. Pope John Paul II
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12. Natural Philosophy 9 February, 2014 St. Thomas More Faith and Science
Isaac Newton, 1705
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Theodoric of Freiberg, 1310

13. The Father of the Big Bang
3 December 2018
The Father of the Big Bang
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14. 3 December 2018
[The Big Bang] is an irrational process that cannot be described in scientific terms … [nor] challenged by an appeal to observation.         —Hoyle
“That the universe had a beginning is a matter of faith and not of demonstration or of science.” -Aquinas
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15. Question 4: Answer: Disputation on the Blessed Sacrament Raphael
3 December 2018
Disputation on the Blessed Sacrament Raphael
Question 4:
Are science and the Catholic faith compatible?
Answer:
Understood as “natural philosophy”, science as we know it is both a child of the Catholic Church and a tool for understanding the truth.
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16. Question 5: Answer: Does anything last forever?
3 December 2018
Question 5:
Does anything last forever?
Answer:
“Heaven and earth shall pass away , but my words shall not pass away .”
Matthew 24;35
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17. 3 December 2018
Hope
"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.” Pope John Paul II
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18. Causes of Death Worldwide
3 December 2018
Causes of Death Worldwide
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