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Interviews with Catholic Scientists

In this episode of WCAT Radio’s “I Thought You’d Like to Know,” guest interviewer Dr. Gerard Verschuuren, Catholic author and geneticist, engages Dr. Tom Sheahen, executive director of the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (https://www.faithscience.org) on the relationship between science and religion. (December 4, 2019)

Dr. Gerard M. Verschuuren is a scientist, writer, speaker, and consultant, working at the interface of science, philosophy, and religion. He is a human biologist, specialized in human genetics, who also earned a doctorate in the philosophy of science, and studied and worked at universities in Europe and the United States. In 1994, he moved permanently to the United States, and lives now in the southern part of New Hampshire. Dr. Verschuuren is widely published in the areas of faith and science. For a comprehensive biography, see his Wiki page.
Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen has been Director of the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST) since 2008. He has written frequently on faith-science topics. Sheahen is also Chairman of the Science and Environment Policy Project (SEPP). He is author of "Introduction to High Temperature Superconductivity" (Plenum Press: 1994). Dr. Sheahen holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Interviews with Catholic Scientists

In this episode of WCAT Radio’s “I Thought You’d Like to Know,” guest interviewer Dr. Stephen Barr, founder and president of the Society of Catholic Scientists (https://www.catholicscientists.org/) engages Dr. Tom Sheahen, executive director of the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (https://www.faithscience.org) on the subject of a recent presentation given at Notre Dame entitled “Everywhen: Examining Omnipresence on the Limited Human Perception of Space and Time” (July 12, 2019)

Stephen M. Barr (President, SCS) is Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Delaware and Director of its Bartol Research Institute. (Ph.D. Physics 1978, Princeton University) Prof. Barr does research in theoretical particle physics, especially grand unified theories, theories of CP violation, neutrino oscillations, and particle cosmology. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2011). He is the author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2003). More information at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Barr and web.physics.udel.edu/about/directory/faculty/stephen-barr
Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen has been Director of the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST) since 2008. He has written frequently on faith-science topics. Sheahen is also Chairman of the Science and Environment Policy Project (SEPP). He is author of "Introduction to High Temperature Superconductivity" (Plenum Press: 1994). Dr. Sheahen holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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