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Are Science and Faith Compatible?

2024/6/13
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Guest Host: Tim Barnett   Tim Barnett discusses the compatibility of faith and science by first defining “faith” and “science” and then exploring the three problems a naturalist has to overcome in order to explain how even a single, small protein could come about on its own by chance.  

Topics:

What is faith? (05:00)

- What is science? (13:00)

- How do we explain the existence of functional proteins? (32:00)

- The chirality problem for naturalists (37:00)

- The bonding problem for naturalists (40:00)

- The sequence problem for naturalists (45:00)

Mentioned on the Show: 

- Are Science and Faith Compatible? by Tim Barnett – DVD)

- “Kinesin protein walking on microtubule”) – Animation

Related Links:

- Can Science Explain Everything?) by John Lennox

- Why Intelligent Design Isn’t a God-of-the-Gaps Argument) by Tim Barnett

- Why Intelligent Design Is an Argument from Knowledge, Not Ignorance) by Amy Hall (quoting Stephen Meyer)

- Building a Protein by Chance) by Tim Barnett