Name: Where is the evidence for God? | Bishop Robert Barron
Uploaded: 2022-07-28T20:20:10.000Z
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when speaking of God is to imagine God as a big being.

I look up in the night sky and I see stars

and planets and look around, I see animals and plants.

He's the supreme being among the many beings of the world."

both old and new will say something like well,

as one more big contingent thing among others,

well then there's no evidence for that reality.

They're operating out of a scientific framework, but see,

if you're looking for God that way you'll never find him,

in and through which all particular things exist.

in misunderstanding God and therefore seeking him

who was one of the great Protestant theologians

he said the word faith is the most misunderstood word

Through a scientific lens or scientistic lens,

It's accepting things on the basis of no evidence.

That is indeed superstition, credulity, stupidity.

The church at its best is calling people beyond that.

It's something on the far side of reason.

When reason has gone about as far as it can possibly go,

it looks into a kind of alluring darkness.

that God, ipsum esse, the sheer act of being itself,

that in whom essence and existence coincide,

It seeks it scientifically, psychologically.

I'd be asking people not to close their minds,

I love the sciences, but I don't like scientism,

in the technology they've delivered to us.

of other ways of knowing the truth about the world.

Hamlet doesn't have a bit of science in it,

but Hamlet delivers to us profound truth about human life

and about love and about frustration and about aspiration.

beyond just a scientific vision of reality.

So what I would say is religion doesn't close the mind.

I'm opposed to any system that wants to shut down

the spirit and say, no, no, that's all you can know.

No, no, no, don't go beyond these limits.

Blow open the limits, go beyond the limits.

See, and that to me is language of faith.

Not infrarational stupidity and superstition, no-

this darkness beyond the light, and by God, yes,

I want to keep opening that up for people.

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