faith and reason

what’s the relationship between faith and reason?

what’s the relationship between faith and reason?

they work together to help us understand truth.

how does science prove and disprove things?

things are proven by seeing or experiencing and the scientific method; things are disproven by ruling out every single possibility.

how is the scientific method applied to God?

to disprove God’s existence, you would have to rule out every single possibility of His existence, which is impossible since He exists outside of science.

what does the Church believe about objective truth?

there is only one Truth, though there may be several versions of the same Truth. truth cannot contradict truth and 2 things cannot contradict and be true.

is there evidence for a bouncing universe or a multiverse?

no, it is a speculation unfounded in actual facts

what is the study of philosophy?

study of knowledge, reality, and existence; goal is to understand and obtain wisdom thru the natural world

BVG Theorem

any universe that has an expansion rate of greater than 0 has to have had a beginning; Borde, Guth, Vilenkin

theology vs philosophy

t: assumes God’s existence, helps us understand God

p: arrives at God’s existence (not assume), rational behind God’s existence

what can we infer about God through our desire for unconditional love?

that God has unconditional love because He had to possess it to gift it

what can and can’t be explained by evolution?

where we came from can, but near-death experiences can’t (souls).

can philosophy explain God?

it doesn’t speak on what God is like, but it does arrive at the conclusion that God exists

entropy

measure of molecular randomness or disorder; irreversible; associated w temp

universal constant

a physical constant of wide application and frequent occurrence in physical formulas

faith

complete trust/confidence in someone or something

reason

the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgement by process of logic; Church believes it given by God

fine-tuning

the idea that the conditions that allow life in the universe occur within a narrow range of values, so that if any of several fundamental constants were only slightly different, the universe would be unlikely to exist in a way that would allow for life

Big Bang Theory

the idea that the universe began at a single point and has since expanded and continues to expand from that point