La purificación de las representaciones en el diálogo entre ciencia y fe

Abstract

The dialogue between science and faith takes place in different spheres of knowledge, ranging from informal dis-cussions between educated people to in-depth dialogue between scientific experts, believers and non-believers. This multivariate form of exchanges, which often requires many initial clarifica-tions, finds a point of agreement in the need to specify the con-ception of the types of causality present in the world, as well as their appropriate articulation. In this contribution, inspired by a commentary by Benedict XVI in the book Last Testament, I argue that progress in the articulation of the different types of causality should lead to a purification, in the case of both be-lievers and non-believers, of the representations of God’s action in the world. In particular, I will focus on the issues that, in my opinion, most urgently require an improvement of these rep-resentations. Specifically, the relationship between the Big bang theory and the doctrine of creation, the emergence of the human being through evolution and the creation of the soul directly and immediately by God, as well as its subsistence after death and its “journey” to heaven