By Albert C. Pacciorini
Staff writer

"A terrible error is being propagated — that science and faith are not compatible," states Jesuit Rev. Robert J. Spitzer.

Father Spitzer is president of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith in Irvine. He was president of Gonzaga University in Spokane from 1998-2009. He introduced a documentary, "Cosmic Origins," that played to a full house of about 200 people on April 19 at St. Edward Parish in Newark.

	Magis Institute "Cosmic Origins" One in a series of educational videos 3D ($24.95) and traditional formats ($19.95) "New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy," Robert J. Spitzer, paperback, 320 pages, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2010. www.magisreasonfaith.org)

Father Spitzer is author of "New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy," and four other books. Among his focus areas: the philosophy of science — space-time theory and big bang cosmology and metaphysics, particularly time theory and the philosophy of God.

The movie "Cosmic Origins" features eight leading physicists talking about science, God and their compatibility.

"Atheists have had the ear of the media," Father Spitzer says, so the physical evidence is being ignored. "It's stunning. There's considerable evidence for the existence of God."

"Everything has a beginning," Father Spitzer said in an animated and entertaining presentation. Atheists argue that before the beginning of the universe there was nothing, he said, yet "How can the universe go from nothing to something. … It implies creation."

The Magis Institute is focused on public education in the areas of faith and science. It has developed high school and college courses, and engages in public outreach, via documentaries and books.

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