Shadowing Practice: Where is the evidence for God? | Bishop Robert Barron - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I think what most people get wrong when speaking of God is to imagine God as a big being.
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I look up in the night sky and I see stars and planets and look around I see animals and plants.
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I see the world of beings, of things.
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The great mistake is to say, well, he must be the biggest being around.
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He's the supreme being among the many beings of the world.
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And that's precisely what God is not.
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How often atheists, both old and new, will say something like, well, where's your evidence for God?
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If you imagine God as one more big contingent thing among others, well then there's just there's no evidence for that reality.
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They're operating out of a scientific framework.
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But see, if you're looking for God that way, you'll never find him.
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That's not what he is.
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God is the sheer act of existence itself in and through which all particular things exist.
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But people get caught up in misunderstanding God and therefore seeking him in a sort of empirical, scientific way.
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That's not going to work.
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You know, the theologian Paul Tillich, who was one of the great
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Protestant theologians of the last century, he said the word faith is the most misunderstood word in the religious vocabulary.
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And I've always felt that's right.
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How do people read faith?
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Through a scientific lens or a scientistic lens.
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Faith is credulity.
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It's superstition.
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It's accepting things on the basis of no evidence.
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It's the way a child thinks.
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That is not faith.
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That is indeed superstition, credulity, stupidity.
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The Church, at its best, is calling people beyond that.
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We're not satisfied leaving people in a state of pre -rational superstition.
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So what's faith then?
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It's something on the far side of reason.
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When reason has gone about as far as it can possibly go, it looks into a kind of alluring darkness.
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Faith in ways like that, the full presence of God, is such that it overwhelms the mind.
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And of course it does.
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And that shouldn't be surprising that God, ipsum esse, the sheer act of being itself, the creator of all things,
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that in whom essence and existence coincide, is not going to be definable by our minds.
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It won't fit into our minds.
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So what does the mind want?
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Well, it wants the truth.
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And so it seeks it.
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It seeks it scientifically, psychologically.
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It seeks it through literature.
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It seeks it through philosophy.
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That's the beauty of the mind.
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I'd be asking people not to close their minds, but to keep opening their minds.
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I love the sciences.
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But I don't like scientism, which is the reduction of all knowledge to the scientific form of knowledge.
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I love the sciences and their success in the technology they've delivered to us.
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But first of all, there's all kinds of other ways of knowing the truth about the world.
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Hamlet doesn't have a bit of science in it,
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but Hamlet delivers to us profound truths about human life and about love and about frustration and about aspiration.
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We've got to open our minds beyond just a scientific vision of reality.
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So what I would say is religion doesn't close the mind.
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On the contrary, I'm opposed to any system that wants to shut down the spirit and say, no, no, that's all you can know.
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No, no, no, don't go beyond these limits.
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No, blow open the limits.
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Go beyond the limits.
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See, and that to me is language of faith, not infrarational stupidity and superstition.
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No, no, no. But faith is this alluring horizon, this darkness beyond the light.
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And by God, yes, I want to keep opening that up for people.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Where is the evidence for God?”. Las palabras que más se repiten: faith, scientific, beyond, superstition, seeks. Este vídeo tiene 45 frases y 614 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:56. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 156 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| darkness sustantivo | /ˈdɑɹk.nɪs/ | oscuridad |
| lens sustantivo | /lɛnz/ | lente, luneta |
| sheer adjetivo | /ʃɪɚ/ | fino, transparente |
| stupidity sustantivo | /stuˈpɪdɪti/ | estupidez, burricie |
| reduction sustantivo | /ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/ | reducción |
| framework sustantivo | /ˈfɹeɪm.wɜːk/ | entramado, armazón |
| precisely adverbio | /pɹɪˈsaɪs.li/ | precisamente, a rajatabla |
| contrary adjetivo | /ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/ | contrario |
| horizon sustantivo | /həˈɹaɪ.zən/ | horizonte |
| rational adjetivo | /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/ | racional |
| essence sustantivo | /ˈɛsəns/ | esencia |
| satisfy verbo | /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/ | satisfacer |
| frustration sustantivo | /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/ | frustración |
| oppose verbo | /əˈpoʊz/ | oponer, salir al encuentro |
| profound adjetivo | /pɹəˈfaʊnd/ | profundo |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| shut down verbo | apagar |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 17 contracciones y formas reducidas, como doesn't, don't, gonna. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: atheist /ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/, theologian /ˌθi.əˈloʊd͡ʒən/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: sheer /ʃɪɚ/, reduction /ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, frustration /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, aspiration /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: stupidity /stuˈpɪdɪti/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, empirical /ɪmˈpɪɹɪkəl/, credulity /kɹɪˈduːlɪti/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: lens /lɛnz/, horizon /həˈɹaɪ.zən/, oppose /əˈpoʊz/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: contingent /kənˈtɪn.d͡ʒənt/, theologian /ˌθi.əˈloʊd͡ʒən/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como darkness, lens, sheer.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.