Episode 033 - Stephen Barr on Lemaitre-Hubble Law and the Society of Catholic Scientists

Minute Comment 0:00 Paul introduces 1:00 Bill: Lemaitre announcement 2:00 Lemaitre: faith & science not opposed 3:00 Barr: Lemaitre announcement 4:00 Ignorance of Lemaitre 5:00 Ignorance of the Christian, Catholic origin of science & famous Catholic scientists 6:00 Barr: late 19th century critical period for the forging of the myth of Church as anti-science 7:00 Science only professionalized in the late 19th century, looking for influence 8:00 More famous Catholic scientists 9:00 Mission of the Society of Catholic Scientists; religious people looking askance at scientists, 10:00 Scientists timid about showing their faith in the presence of a few loud atheists 11:00 Catholic scientists joining SCS & finding others like themselves 12:00 Witness to the world 13:00 Conferences, past and future: next June at Notre Dame 14:00 2017: origin of universe, life; 2018: mind and matter 15:00 2019 conference: what is it (and has it been) to be human; speakers from outside the faith 16:00 Past non-Catholic conference speakers 17:00 Peter Koellner's talk at 2018 conference 18:00 Koellner and Godel's theorem 19:00 Neaderthals, language, reason 20:00 Godel's beliefs about mind and mathematical truths 21:00 Mathematical truth and religious truth 22:00 Depth & sophistication of the law that governs the universe