Does Science Need Faith? | Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.

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🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This talk was offered at Yale University on October 21, 2019.

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Speaker Bio:

Fr. Anselm Ramelow is a Catholic priest in the Order of Preachers. He is professor of philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley and currently the chair of the philosophy department. He obtained his doctorate under Robert Spaemann in Munich on Leibniz and the Spanish Jesuits (Gott, Freiheit, Weltenwahl, 1997) and did theological work on George Lindbeck and the question of a Thomist philosophy and theology of language (Beyond Modernism? - George Lindbeck and the Linguistic Turn in Theology, 2005).

He contributed articles to the Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophy and essays on topics at the intersection of philosophy and theology, as well as a translation and commentary on part of Aquinas’ De veritate. He continues to work on questions of free will, philosophy of religion (miracles, existence and nature of God) and philosophical aesthetics.

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0:00.0	So I called that talk, does science need faith with a question mark?
0:05.0	And my answer will be yes.
0:07.0	And, but perhaps in a way that's a little different from what you might be used to hearing.
0:13.0	Trying to shift that conversation a little bit.
0:16.0	But I think it's first of all an important conversation.
0:20.0	So people of faith are getting challenged, you know, by results of science, which people suggest,
0:28.4	you know, undermine the faith or that people who are still believing something are just behind
0:33.5	the times and have not really read up on the latest results of science or are just
0:38.7	even in willful denial of that and that they might just live in an alternate kind of reality
0:45.5	clinging to ancient mythologies perhaps and just merely appealing to the guard of the gaps
0:50.5	to solve some problem which then has already been explained by science or will
0:55.9	be explained by science.
0:58.0	So the suggestion is faith is either outdated or superfluous and doesn't really have a place
1:03.0	anymore.
1:04.5	So if I'm right, that's actually not true, and so I hope to show some of that. I also find it ironic that
1:12.9	people appear to the objective results of science in an age where postmodernism
1:18.9	proclaims that there is no such thing as objective truth. Try to get that together
1:23.3	but that is a conversation for another time. But, so what should we think about this?
1:29.3	What should you think about that?
1:31.3	Maybe, if you're lucky, you have perhaps a good catacatal background,
1:35.3	you know, from your faith, and you're coming to this university,
1:39.3	perhaps as undergraduates, and people sort of insinuate these kind of things to you.
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