Gerard Bodifée

Gerard Bodifée (°1946, Belgium) holds a PhD in science from the University of Brussels. He specialised in astrophysics, conducting scientific research into the origin of stars and the evolution of galaxies.

His interest is primarily focused on the fundamental scientific and philosophical questions of man. What is the origin and goal of existence? What is the position of man in the whole of reality? What is the relationship between science and religion?

After a career in industry and education, Bodifée became director of the National Planetarium of Belgium. Since then he has concentrated on writing and lecturing in Belgium and abroad. He founded the ‘House for Philosophy’, and teaches about the foundations of our culture in Greece, linking the origins of philosophy to modern science. He has published some twenty books, venturing into the field where science, philosophy and religion overlap.

His most recent work, published in 2003, is entitled Coming into Existence (in Dutch: Tot Bestaan Bestemd) which explores the relationship between creation and time. More info can be found on Bodifée’s personal website.

Picture courtesy by Gerard Bodifée.


The Good, the True and the Beautiful

۞ In this interview astrophysicist and philosopher Gerard Bodifée (Belgium) talks about the Good, the True and the Beautiful.

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Reaching for Omega

۞  We continue our talk with Gerard Bodifée on the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. This time we talked about Teilhard de Chardin and his grand vision.

  • Teilhard de Chardin can only be understood within a religious framework, not a scientific one, is this right? (part one)
    video (7,9mb) | transcript
  • Teilhard de Chardin can only be understood within a religious framework, not a scientific one, is this right? (part two)
    video (7,6mb) | transcript

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The Fullness of Being

۞  Gerard Bodifée points to the Greatness and Smallness of our human existence in this interview.

  • Is the Fullness of Being a triangulation of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful?
    video (9,9mb) | transcript
  • Could we say that we are halfway between the Beasts and the Gods?
    video (4,9mb) | transcript

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The Practical Path

۞  Gerard Bodifée talks about some of the practical paths we can take towards a Full Existence.

  • Do you think there is a practical path to this Full Existence?
    video (5,1mb) | transcript
  • Should we take practical steps towards integrating science and religion?
    video (7,5mb) | transcript

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Making Meaning

۞  Gerard Bodifée talks about humans as meaning making beings.

  • Do we as human beings find meaning in the cosmos by taking a religious approach to it?
    video (9,9mb) | transcript
  • The Now is eternal. Is that right?
    video (5,5mb) | transcript
  • Science often denies that the Kosmos has brought us forth as meaning-making beings. The fact that we are able to do this emerges from the very cosmos that they are studying. Is that right?
    video (5,7mb) | transcript

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