McGrath - INTRO_12 - Watching the Heavens: Copernicus and Kepler

01 August 2021

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Category	IRC Short
Speakers	McGrath, Alister
Year	2021

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This presentation considers the astronomical debates of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, focussing on Copernicus and Kepler. What were the scientific and religious issues that were debated? And how important are they?

01	Science and Religion: Introducing the Field
02	Science and Religion: A Personal Journey
03	The Warfare of Science and Religion?
04	Science and Faith: Different Maps of Reality
05	What does it mean to explain something?
06	How do we develop theories?
07	How do we find the best explanation?
08	Faith and Proof in Science
09	Faith and Proof in Religion
10	Scientism: Exploring the Limits of the Sciences
11	Can God "explain" anything?
12	Watching the Heavens: Copernicus and Kepler
13	Isaac Newton and the Mechanical Universe
14	Miracles and the Laws of Nature
15	How does God act in the world?
16	Darwin, Evolution, and God
17	Albert Einstein on Science and Faith
18	The Big Bang: Creation and Cosmology
19	A Fine-Tuned Universe
20	Models and Analogies in Science
21	Models and Analogies in Religion
22	Reductionism in Science and Religion
23	Science, Religion, and the Meaning of Life
24	Science, Religion, and Moral Values
25	Natural Theology
26	Mystery in Science and Religion
27	Conclusion: Framing the Relation of Science and Religion