The third lecture in the Science & Religion Online Series, from the Angelicum Thomistic Institute, with Fr Javier Sánchez Cañizares, PhD, STD.
This talk deals with the most relevant problems that emerge in our physical knowledge of reality, providing a renewed agenda of topics for philosophical and theological reflection on nature. While essays on biological evolution and the philosophical matters that arise from it are becoming abundant, the same does not seem to be the case with reflections prompted by contemporary Physics. However, should we wish to improve our understanding of a nature created by a personal God, an inspection of the physical bases that make it possible becomes mandatory. They, in turn, challenge us with new questions that religious thinkers need to address. I intend to articulate this talk around the concept of singularity and how it can be applied analogously to the universe in general, the existence of complex systems, the emergence of the mind, and our specific knowledge of nature from its most fundamental description. It aims at an academic audience who want to delve into the image of a world created by God from our scientific knowledge.
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