Episode 052 - Chris Baglow & Jay Martin: the mission to (re)integrate science & faith

0:30 - McGrath Institute for Church Life: Science & Religion Initiative outreach to high school teachers to integrate science & faith 2:00 - Gulf Coast Faith Formation Conference (a good time to be away from Notre Dame) 3:00 - Summer seminars: Foundations Notre Dame, Foundations New Orleans, Capstone 4:00 - Foundations ND: lecture based, top scholars in specific disciplines, with workshops 6:00 - Foundations NO: experimental work and discussions 7:00 - Dialogue between science & theology teachers about their own specialties 8:00 - Capstone: topic-based theme & lecturers; special track for administrators; teaching practices 11:00 - Templeton Foundation study showing schools already trying to do this on their own 12:00 - The need to do this well and not engage in pseudoscience or gloss over tough questions 14:00 - ICL team making "housecalls" to individual schools 14:30 - Baglow textbook on science & faith 18:00 - Vast multiplication of interest from schools just since 2011 19:00 - Real motivations for believing faith is inconsistent with science: the need for hope [and, not made explicit, the appropriateness of hope] 20:00 - "I thought I was the only one" 21:00 - The historical and emotional impulse: rebellion against Christian hypocrisy 22:30 - Baglow makes the Fulton Sheen point: "I also hope THAT God doesn't exist!" 23:00 - The questions he wishes people would ask about God, meaning, science, etc. 24:00 - "What do you mean by 'God creates everything'" 25:00 - The nature of the discourse we encourage 26:30 - "I don't know" 27:00 - "When did science and religion enter into conflict?" - because they have not always been 28:20 - The true role of the university in integrating human wisdom 30:30 - Newman on evolution in the context of Development of Christian Doctrine