Brandywine Hundred Deanery Lenten Speaker Series - Dr Stephen Barr

Brandywine Hundred Deanery Lenten Speaker Series

Science and Religion: the Myth of Conflict
Dr Stephen Barr

In this talk, Professor Barr will show that claims of a conflict between science and faith are based on common misconceptions about Christian belief, about history, and about the discoveries of modern science and what they really imply. He also will tell the story of the tremendously positive role played by the Church and by Catholic scientists in the progress of science down the centuries. Finally, he will discuss several major scientific discoveries of the 20th century and how they are more in line with the traditional Jewish and Christian ideas than with atheist philosophy. As this false conflict is one of the top reasons people leave the Church, this is an important talk.

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Stephen M. Barr is President of the Society of Catholic Scientists and Professor Emeritus of theoretical particle physics at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1978. His research was centered mainly on “grand unified theories” and the cosmology of the early universe. In 2011, he was elected to be a Fellow of the American Physical Society “for his original contributions to grand unification, CP violation, and baryogenesis”. He writes and lectures extensively on the relation of science and religion. He is the author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2003) and The Believing Scientist: essays on science and religion (Eerdmans, 2016). He was elected in 2010 to the Academy of Catholic Theology and in was awarded the Benemerenti Medal by Pope Benedict XVI.

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