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So typically when you give, I think, a science and faith or science and religion talk,

it ends up at least in part being about potential or perceived conflicts between science and religion.

This is not going to play a major role in this talk, but I just want to sort of plan

ahead of time that if you want to ask questions about it, if there are any sort of conflicts

you have heard, or maybe you are not sure about how serious it is that has to do with astronomy,

where I see hear about aliens, cosmology, definitely feel free to bring them up either today

and tomorrow and I'll do my best, but then I might also field some to Dr. Linne.

Instead, what I want to do with this talk is take a bit more of a medieval approach.

And I think if you think about the, if we take the time of Thomas Aquinas, there would

just have been a presumption that there's going to be coherence between different ways of understanding the cosmos.

And that this is true when you look at the very big things,

we'll focus for this talk on cosmology,

thinking about the sort of created material order as a whole,

or if you zoom in to the very small details,

that might be more what you are you are studying in some of your different

fields. And focusing though on the largest scales, I think it's a nice case study for thinking

about how to, in a productive way, dialogue between the theological accounts of creation and the scientific accounts of the beginning

of the universe or where sort of the, why the universe looks the way it is, which is the big bang

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