WOF 089: What Really Happens When We Die?

What really happens when we die? In a recent interview with Larry King, popular astro-physicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, offers a scientifically reduced answer to this philosophically rich question. In this episode of the Word On Fire Show, Bishop Barron reacts to Tyson's response and offers a more holistic understanding of human identity and death. A listener asks how God can be both a person and the sheer act of "to be" itself.

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• 0:04 - Intro: Bishop Barron speaks at a tech conference
• 1:30 - Explaining the interview and Tyson's explanation of physical death
• 5:20 - Are scientists seen as the new priests?
• 8:10 - What happens when you die besides the obvious scientific realities?
• 10:00 - Why do atheists still cling to moral values?
• 11:09 - Does culminating as meat for maggots offer a sense of eternal fulfillment?
• 12:30 - Tyson's explanation of our annihilation upon death.
• 14:55 - Is it a wish fulfilling fantasy to desire consciousness after death?
• 20:00 - Would anyone really want to live forever?
• 22:30 - What really happens when we die according to Christians?
• 25:25 - Question from listener: How can God be both a person and the sheer act of "to be" itself?

Bonus Resources

• Articles

• "The Myth of the War Between Science and Religion" (Bishop Barron)

• "Does Religion Have a 'Smart-People' Problem?" (Bishop Barron)

• "The Theory of Everything: A God-Haunted Film" (Bishop Barron)

• "Cosmos and One More Telling of the Tired Myth" (Bishop Barron)

• Videos

• Neil deGrasse Tyson's interview with Larry King

• Hey Bill Nye, 'Does Science Have All the Answers or Should We Do Philosophy Too?'

• Atheism and Philosophy

• Bishop Barron on The Theory of Everything

• Bishop Barron on Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

• Has Science Refuted Aristotelian Causality?

• Scientism and God's Existence

• Stephen Hawking and Atheism

• Fr. George Coyne and the Fertile Cosmos

• Books

• The Soul's Upward Yearning by Fr. Robert Spitzer

• The Priority of Christ by Bishop Robert Barron

• Websites

• WordOnFire.org

• StrangeNotions.com

Find bonus links and resources for this episode at http://WordOnFireShow.com and be sure to submit your questions at http://AskBishopBarron.