Can Science Dictate Our Identity? with Praveen Sethupathy

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin are joined by Praveen Sethupathy to talk about what science is and if it can dictate our identity.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• How did your first few years at Cornell change you?
• Why did you land on Christianity?
• When you went back to your family and told them you were a Christian, what did that look like?
• Have you scientific pursuits pulled you away from Christianity?
• When we are talking about science, what are we talking about?
• If science has explained what we are as human beings then why do we need a religious understanding of what we are as human beings?
• How as a scientist do you think about miracles?
• If we have a scientific explanation for the beginning of the world and the origin of humans, why would we be interested in Genesis 1-2?

Guest Bio:

Dr. Praveen Setupathy is Professor of Physiological Genomics in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Director of the Center for Vertebrate Genomics at Cornell University, where he leads a research lab focused on genomic approaches to understand physiology and human disease. He received his BA degree from Cornell University and his PhD in Genomics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Helpful Definitions:

• Science: A human endeavor, a set of tools that we use incorporating logic and mathematics the tools and precepts and theories from other sciences that human beings have developed through our faculties to make sense of the world. What are natural explanations for the things we see in the natural world.
• Scientific Knowledge: A body of knowledge and truth.

Resources Mentioned:

• 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Genesis 1-2, Ephesians 3:10
• “The Myth of Certainty” by Daniel Taylor

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