Kepler, Cosmic Comprehensibility, and the Christian Life | Dr. Melissa Travis | The Kirkwood Center

In this podcast Lenny and Tony interview Dr. Melissa Cain Travis on the history of Faith and Science. We talk about how modern science emerged in the West, in part as a result of Christian thought, and how one of the giants of modern Science, Johannes Kepler, lived a life devoted to both God and God’s creation.

Dr. Travis serves as Affiliate Faculty at Colorado Christian University’s Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics, where she teaches courses in the history and philosophy of science as well as the apologetics of C.S. Lewis. She earned a PhD in Humanities with a Philosophy concentration from Faulkner University’s Great Books program, where her dissertation research focused on the natural philosophy and natural theology of Johannes Kepler. She earned a Master of Arts in Science and Religion from Biola University and holds a Bachelor of Science in general biology from Campbell University. She is a Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture.

Dr. Travis is the author of Thinking God’s Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and the Miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility (December 2022), Science and the Mind of the Maker: What the Conversation Between Faith and Science Reveals About God (Harvest House, 2018), and a contributor to The Story of the Cosmos: How the Heavens Declare the Glory of God (Harvest House, 2019). She is a member of the Contributing Writers team at Christian Research Institute and The Worldview Bulletin. In addition, she is an instructor at DiscoveryU.org, where she offers adult education courses. #TheKirkwoodCenter #FaithandScience #JohannesKepler #IntelligentDesign

00:00:00 - 00:12:00 Donald Duck, Math, and Melissa’s Journey from Faith to Science
00:12:15 - 00:20:15 Why we NEED apologetics in the Church
00:20:16 - 00:26:00 Are Faith and Science “At War?”
00:26:00 - 00:37:45 Three Reasons Christianity Made Modern Science Possible
00:37:46 - 00:47:00 Math and The Mind of God, (and Weird Pythagorean Dietary Rules)
00:47:01 - 00:54:25 Why Aren’t More Christians Involved in the Sciences?
00:54:26 - 00:56:25 The Fracturing of the Academic Disciplines
00:56:33 - 01:11:43 The Life and Work of Johannes Kepler
01:11:44 - 01:14:39 Kepler’s Christianity
01:14:40 - 01:20:20 Having Conversations on Faith and Science
01:20:21 - 01:27:10 Can the Church Be the University Once More?
01:27:11 - 1.31.30 What do you say to Young Christians today?