Big Question Online’s M. Anthony Mills interviews Stephen M. Barr, a physicist and cosmologist at the University of Delaware and popular commentator on the relationship between science and religion.
Science and religion have a complicated history. Scientists cannot quantify God—God is pretty difficult to bring into the laboratory, quips Rabbi Darren Levine—but what they can study and measure is the effect of faith on people’s well-being and life satisfaction.
Einstein believed in the unseen—like gravitational waves, ripples in space and time. Now, we can see this, as shown by the 2017 Nobel Prize physics winners.
