Summer Course no. 6: Science and Religion in Dialogue in 2011

Aim of Course

In this one week course a wide range of topics at the science/religion interface will be addressed by internationally renowned speakers. The topics to be covered include historical and philosophical perspectives; the relationships between physics, evolutionary biology and neuroscience with religion; and some of the ethical issues raised by science.

Speakers (listed in alphabetical order) and topics

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• Katherine Blundell : God and the Big Bang
• Revd Dave Bookless : Earthing Theology: Caring for Creation in Urban and Rural Contexts
• Dr Allan Chapman : Science, Secularism, and Enlightenment
• Peter Clarke (deceased) : The Brain as a Neuronal Machine
• Revd Prof. Alasdair Coles : Brain Imaging and Religious Experience
• Dr Marc Cortez : Embodied Souls, Ensouled Bodies
• Keith Fox : Creation and Evolution
• Nidhal Guessoum : Islam and Modern Science, and Islam and Modern Technologies
• Ian Hutchinson : Monopolizing Knowledge: A Refutation of Scientism; and Physics and Faith
• Dr David Lahti : Is Human Behaviour in the Genes? and Has Religion Evolved?
• Revd Dr Ernest Lucas : The Creation Narratives in Genesis 1-3
• Michael Murray : Animal Suffering: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives
• Tim O’Connor : Cosmic Fine-Tuning, and Free Will and the Scientific Study of Mind
• Ted Peters : Astro-Ethics and the Search for Life, and Can We Enhance the Imago Dei? A Theological Assessment of Genetic Alteration, Nanotechnology, and Transhumanism
• Jeff Schloss : Animal Suffering: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives
• John Wyatt : What does it Mean to be a Person? Matters of Life and Death

Venue

The course will be held at St Edmund’s College, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge, CB3 0BN

Course Schedule