Religion within the age of science: Why God nonetheless issues

[ad_1] <img class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="0d8a5249662abbe91efafea6a4a21be2" id="65dec" src="https://www.conservativereview.com/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZWJsYXplLmNvbS9tZWRpYS1saWJyYXJ5L2ltYWdlLmpwZz9pZD02MTY5NTk5NyZhbXA7d2lkdGg9MTIwMCZhbXA7aGVpZ2h0PTgwMCZhbXA7Y29vcmRpbmF0ZXM9MTUwLDAsMTUwLDAiLCJleHBpcmVzX2F0IjoxNzk1MzcwMDQwfQ.TjpKxOeRALN1N7mwiRtLYZuJ1hXSBcjeMAAiQ1Omh14/image.jpg" /> As soon as an outspoken atheist, Stanford bioengineering professor Annelise Barron was deeply influenced by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens — earlier than rediscovering God via private tragedy and the bounds of science.

“I misplaced somebody tremendous near me in a really surprising solution to suicide two and a half years in the past. And since he had killed himself, I instantly turned tremendous anxious — like, is he in hell? You recognize, as a result of that is what you vaguely hear, like, if you happen to kill your self, this can be a cardinal sin,” Barron tells BlazeTV host Nicole Shanahan on “Again to the Folks.”

“So I began researching it and studying the Bible, and I simply, you realize, had an unimaginable revival of my very own religion primarily based on interested by that query,” she explains.

And when Barron started listening to the testimonials of different believers who survived tragic circumstances that science couldn’t clarify, her religion deepened additional.

“What’s astonishing is, like, from one second to the following, if you happen to ask for assist in a honest method, you ask for therapeutic, it may be given. And whether or not it’s an habit or a illness or, you realize, a behavior that you simply’re not proud of — so I'm simply 100% sure that God is actual and that He does love every one in every of us,” Barron tells Shanahan.

“All He desires from us is to be in nearer relationship with Him. And I feel it’s extraordinary how that may assist your private happiness,” she provides.

Shanahan couldn’t agree extra, explaining that the therapeutic she’s “present in full religion of Jesus as savior” can’t be replicated “via another bioengineered mechanism.”

“I consider that,” Barron agrees.

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