faith and reason

they work together to help us understand truth.

things are proven by seeing or experiencing and the scientific method; things are disproven by ruling out every single possibility.

to disprove God’s existence, you would have to rule out every single possibility of His existence, which is impossible since He exists outside of science.

there is only one Truth, though there may be several versions of the same Truth. truth cannot contradict truth and 2 things cannot contradict and be true.

no, it is a speculation unfounded in actual facts

study of knowledge, reality, and existence; goal is to understand and obtain wisdom thru the natural world

any universe that has an expansion rate of greater than 0 has to have had a beginning; Borde, Guth, Vilenkin

t: assumes God’s existence, helps us understand God

p: arrives at God’s existence (not assume), rational behind God’s existence

that God has unconditional love because He had to possess it to gift it

where we came from can, but near-death experiences can’t (souls).

it doesn’t speak on what God is like, but it does arrive at the conclusion that God exists

measure of molecular randomness or disorder; irreversible; associated w temp

a physical constant of wide application and frequent occurrence in physical formulas

complete trust/confidence in someone or something

the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgement by process of logic; Church believes it given by God

the idea that the conditions that allow life in the universe occur within a narrow range of values, so that if any of several fundamental constants were only slightly different, the universe would be unlikely to exist in a way that would allow for life

the idea that the universe began at a single point and has since expanded and continues to expand from that point