Faith, Science, and Evangelization

Ok, I can understand and absolutely agree with this man's reasoning about God's existence, our very "being" is proof of it, that does make sense.
However, I don't quite see how it points to the rules and directions for worshipping God. I mean, we can identify that He is real but all the ceremony and precise accordances with the traditions of the Christian faith seem arbitrary and very much man made. Like we're clutching at rules to follow for the praising of God yet He is far beyond our capacity to comprehend, understand or ritually follow in the manner of His choosing.

Anyway, respect to the Christian community and thank you for a fascinating speech.

We thank God for you Bh. I love St. Thomas as he explained faith and reason. Keep up! I pray for you to keep the flag of Christ flying.

Where was this man during the 2000s? When Hitchens & co wrecked havoc on the culture. Hitchens would have been cancelled today as Dawkins is afraid of being today.

Great to listen to you as always Bishop Barron speaking from your male point of view coming from a long line of male intellectuals ,philisophers,theologians, scientists etc and with all that left half the human race out in the cold for so long and denied them the right to participate in this world ...which now thankfully has been corrected,but what a waste - I'd like you to think about that and comment at some stage.

Always viewed science as proof that God exists. I have a chemistry degree, but needless to say my grades were not that good and I had to take advanced classes in physics and math as well. I did not fully understand everything but the complexities of it all humbled me and even furthered my faith and allowed me to appreciate the highly intellectual part of God

Great talk Bishop Barron. I am on fire after hearing your talk. I am a STEM high school teacher and a catechist. We are facing the culture that wants to cancel or slient us when wanting to speak the truth about our Catholic tradition. Totally agree that we need to incorporate science, technolog and mathematics in our belief system to deepening our understanding of the universe that God created. There should not be any conflict between science and religion. Knowing God makes us fully alive as you pointed out. We should not be afraid to speak the truth despite being bullied or persecuted by the left in society. Thank you and may God continue to bless your ministry.

Unfortunately he is playing to the crowd, simply putting down science. We live in a material world, and as such everything in the world reflects solid principles and values. Nothing is in the wrong place or goes against these scientifically founded truths.

If bishop Robert turned the magnifying glass on his own theological beliefs, he would come to negative conclusions about that faith exacting the same as he has come up with negative conclusions about scientific inquiry.

Case in point: He talks about Plato’s cave. If we turn that idea on religion, coming out into the light isn’t finding theological absolutism but realizing that religion is simply a form of mass control, political in nature and, as we’ve seen from studying the sciences of histories, the continues oppression and violence perpetrated by religions. It’s a fact. People fled Europe because of religious persecution and oppression. So sad he is blind to the other side of the coin he is making his talk on, which he should be very well schooled but seems blind( Plato’s cave) to. We don’t see this in nature. The diversity of species is astounding. There’s no basis for other worlds/realms/ parallel universes to be any different. But they preach one god, one way of thinking and one way of being. Biology completely debunks this idea as it doesn’t enhance survivability.

Science is not wrong about its proclivities. The natural world is all there is.

God is Truth; he is the Logic that maintains the consistency of all facts in the universe. He is the fundamental axiom from which everything else is derived. There is no proving that God exists because there is no proving the axioms of any system; you have to accept them on faith and derive consequences from there. And this axiom of consistency is the same premise on which science is built. For science proceeds from the premise that the same laws of cause and effect will continue to be valid everywhere at all times. Science presumes that there is an abstract principle of logic that maintains consistency between all facts everywhere at all time and controls all event. But this is just another description of God.

Geometrical figures are not the same as Forms. The former are invisible because they are the beyond-limit concepts (which are at heart of calculus). The latter are visible concrete functions within the environment. We creatively posit the perfect circle, we gradually grasp the universal pattern 'horse', by repeated observation of aspects of the pattern.

My personal experience: if you have no knowledge, you’re religious. If you gain some knowledge, you lose your religion. If you gain a lot of knowledge, you become religious again, but in a different way.

Does anyone know where I can view the rest of this conference? I would really like to hear the other speakers. If anyone can help, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

Taylor Marshall is seething right now 😂😂😂

Can you make a video explaining how bigginers can make huge a profit within a short period of time?
I was at a seminar and the host spoke about making well over $880,000 within 4 months of investing $150,000. I just need to know how

“We dumbed down the Faith after the council” Thank you Bishop Barron for telling it as it is. 🙏

There is an undeniable reality there is no Santa Claus and there is no God time to grow up kids

Dear Bishop, Saint Thomas Aquinas drew you to God. No you draw others ti God through him. How lovely. You Excel at this

You touched on so many reasons why I want to get my masters so I can teach catechism and theology! Intellectual rigor and curiosity are super empowering for people, where materialism unintentionally hinders/depresses them

Well done!

Abandon the noisy, intrusive plastic bottle. . Opt for a simple glass of water. It's a better presentation.

science teach lie of evolution and what you say about it, look how bad life is since education got so controlled by godless science people, and look how science destroying faith, churches empty and Christianity on attack from godless secular education, media and government constantly attacking and introducing mindless regulations and rules so the stealing Catholics schools and hospitals

The conflict between science and religion is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

When Bishop Barron addresses Science and Religion and philosophy, I always learn a lot. Some of what I learn as a secular Catholic is what Barron does not talk about. It is very true that there is one true Science set against the many true Religions and that is what drives the emerging secular Religion of the Nones, not really dumbing down. Our children are learning how to live good and moral lives with the Grand Narratives of a new secular Religion, not from the Grand Narratives of Science. Science represents meaning and purpose for many scientists despite its nihilism just as Religion represents meaning and purpose for many evangelicals like Barron despite the many conflicting truths of Religions, but it is the nihilism of Science that is what all Religions need to emphasize to make their many cases.

Barron does remind us very well about the nihilism of Science but then he evangelizes only his one true Religion. However, there are many, many true Religions that all show our children how to live good and moral lives and yet only one true nihilism of Science. Barron does not like my favorite philosopher Kant and does not mention the many true Religions from the Schism and Reformation much, nor does he mention Islam or the Eastern Vedas, Daoist, and Confucius Religions that teach most people in the world how to live good and moral lives.

I am a secular Catholic because I believe in just the one true Religion that shows people how to lead good moral lives and my one true secular Religion has pieces of all true Religions despite their conflicting truths. My secular Religion then gives purpose and meaning to the nihilism of my Science...

Thanks for showing me the universe 📘🙏❤️🔥

Cómo siempre, genial ❤

The opening humility was very refreshing coming from the Episcopacy... that plus the inherently atheist bias that pervades all levels of education (especially federally funded) are big contributors to my generation's misunderstandings about the faith

I don't understand, am I supposed to view a formal syntactic structure of a language as a spiritual reality? Or is metaphysics between the physical and the spiritual? Is one to the other as data to hardware?

Reason + faith = 5.

Your masses and sermons were spectacular too.

The unfortunate consequence of dumbing down the faith is that it allowed us to dismiss it as mere mythic superstition, only to run into the embrace of the even greater superstition of materialism, which decrees that consciousness and life magically emerge from dead matter.

I am investigating the term "woke" and Christian racism. As a Christian, which is worse? Disney allowing a black actress to play a white cartoon character or Christians making a supposed God figure who was non-white...white?

God and Science do not compete with each other. God used science for everything He created.

I got it. Someday everybody will get it !

Why does the non-contingent being need to be? I follow often the contingency of being argument, it's just at the end the great leap of faith to the unmoved mover is what baffles?

The Fatal Flaw of New Atheism by the Distributist is an excellent takedown of scientism that I highly recommend to anyone here interested

i love how excited you are in this talk!

Brilliant. Thank you Bishop Barron. I understood about 95% of the talk: as I'm not very academic or into philosophy, but I'd struggle to explain it or argue with anyone. However I thought my busy mind was a health issue........but it's not so I'm super happy about that. God Bless us all in this amazing universe!

God wants us to understand His creation so He made it in such a way that we could describe it mathematically. That is what the universe is “mathematically intelligible.” And it is important for us to strive to understand it so that we can take care of it, so that we can be good, responsible stewards of it.

Locke and Hume probably would have liked Chat gpt 3 😂—the blank slate that is fed all data available on the internet (through 2021) and organizes it based not on a self-awareness or a moral agency or a capacity for self-expression but on the catalyst of an agency outside itself — the human that is giving it instructions.

The world on Fire bible includes many answers to theese questions.thanks peace and blessings

It brings glory to God and Christ Jesus to see so many sons of Abraham, who were once lost, now going back to their Overseer and Maker through the light of Christ. Israel's false shepherds certainly grieved God's Spirit by robbing Him of His worshippers and drove out His wisdom that guided all their prophets sent to them. He certainly is faithful, even though they rebelled, and waits patiently for the promise He made to Abraham. Israel still gave birth to His Son and Savior of the world, being a blessing to all nations. No one can confine God's understanding and His plans for mankind. The God who created heavens and earth has a Son and, being a Son and born King, inherits everything and has brought Him glory. Abraham, His servant, who was given the land of Israel on earth, still has descendants who seek His heavenly Kingdom, the New Jersualem, which will be an eternal Kingdom, coming from heaven with all those prophets and saints who waited for that Day!

Thank you Bishop Baron! You are helping me so much in my faith journey. God bless!

Thank you Bishop Barron for having the courage and the strength to pursue God's calling.
Not everyone responds to His call and are distracted by the temptations of the material world.
Not only did you accept God's calling to be a priest, a bishpp, you became the shepherd, the warrior, the healer. You do as you preach ...Thank you for your inspirational words every week. May God bless you!
From a fellow folliwer of Our Lird Jesus Christ, raised by good Irish, Catholic parents!

I’m not sure what is going on in the Catholic Church on a whole. Where I live in rural East Tennessee my church has for years been small one service on sundays maybe 30-40 people. That was 4 years ago. Today there are closer to 200 with standing room only most weeks. They also have more people in confirmation class than they use to have in the whole church. When I was a kid in the late 80s in Florida we had thousands going to our church and only 7 people in my confirmation class. Something is changing. I only hope they can capitalize on it. My wife and I crave more from the Catholic Church than just one standard mass. We need more.

The issue scientists have with organized religion is not the belief that application of the scientific method is the only way of knowing things but the claim that faith is a reliable way of reaching the truth. As Hebrews 11:1 says: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" - ie. believing things in the absence of evidence. Many people are happy to accept that there may be an infinite power and presence underlying the cosmos. Hwoever, it seems absurd to believe that the only access to this infinite being is through acceptance of the convoluted dogmas and bureaucratic ritual practices of the Catholic Church. No wonder young people are abandoning the church in droves.

This is one of the best Bishop Barron talks I've heard.

wonderful exhibition of theological insight.

latin with a midwestern accent never ceases to amuse.

I so want to hear the bishop in long conversation with John Vervaeke.

Bisoplaa nathi kicima naayakathvayak Pili gannaa naha

I’d love to see what percentage of speakers said his name in their speeches