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Immaculate Heart Retreat Center will host a dinner series titled “Evidence for God from Physics,” led by Bishop Emeritus William Skylstad, on the last Tuesday evenings of the month, beginning Jan. 27, and continuing through Feb. 24. The dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. and the conferences end by 8:30 p.m.
The event each month will begin with a deluxe dinner, according to a press release. Skylstad will present The Rev. Robert Sptizer’s videos on arguments from reason on God’s existence using contemporary proofs from new findings in cosmology. There will be a Q&A over dessert and coffee and discussion will follow.
The topic for January is In the Beginning I: “The Big Bang and Our Universe / Did the Universe Have a Beginning?”, and for February is In the Beginning II: “Is there Evidence of Fine-tuning, Design, and Intelligence in the Universe?” Physics, Evolution, and the Bible. Cost is $30 per person.
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of SpokaneFāVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
