New Faraday Lectures

[humphreyclarke]

There is going to be a new Faraday Course coming up soon called Science and Religion in an Evolving Universe.

www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday/Short_course.php?Course_selection=23

All the lectures should end up online before the end of July. The ones going up will be:

Prof. John Hedley Brooke: 'The Reception of Darwinism'

Prof. Roger Trigg: 'Rationality in Science and Religion'

Prof. Nidhal Guessoum: 'Islam and Science: the History'

Dr Allan Chapman: 'Mediaeval Cosmology and the Church'

Prof. Lawrence Principe: 'The Role of Religion in the Emergence of Modern Science'

Prof. Lawrence Principe: 'Natural Theology: A Historical Perspective'

Prof. Nidhal Guessoum: 'Islam and Science Today'

Revd Dr John Polkinghorne: 'Theology in a Scientific Context'

Prof. Paul Shellard: 'The Anthropic Principle'

Prof. Ernan McMullin: 'The Anthropic Principle: A Theological Perspective'

Prof. Stephen Freeland: 'Is there a Biological Anthropic Principle?

Dr Jennifer Wiseman: 'Habitable Exoplanets: the Implications for Human Significance'

Prof. Stephen Freeland: 'An Introduction to the Modern Theory of Evolution'

Prof. Simon Conway Morris: 'Evolution and Fine-Tuning in Biology'

Prof. Keith Fox: 'Creation and Evolution'

Revd Dr Ernest Lucas: 'The Creation Narratives in Genesis 1-3'

Prof. Ted Peters: 'Ethics, Theology and the Biosciences'

Prof. Keith Fox: 'Genetic Engineering: How Far Should We Go?

Prof. John Wyatt: 'What does it Mean to be a Person? Matters of Life and Death'

Prof. Ted Peters: 'The Stem Cell Controversy: The Interaction between Genetics, Theology, and Public Policy'

I'm very much looking forward to Conway Morris, Ernan McMullin and Principe

[wraggy]

Humphrey is it your intention to attend any of these lectures? If so, I was wondering if you could give us a report.

[humphreyclarke]

Nah. Even if I had time, the course is over £500 quid. Besides, all these will go up on the web as mp3s in July. I'll post here when they are up.