Faraday Institute Events


2009-03-31 13:00: Creation ex Nihilo and What It Means for Science (Dr Janet Soskice, Faculty of Divinity)

2009-04-28 17:30: God, Darwin and Design (Prof. Kenneth Miller, Brown University, USA)

2009-05-12 13:00: The Secret History of Victorian Evolution (Prof. Jim Secord, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science)

2009-05-26 13:00: Natural Disasters and Christian Theology (Dr David Chester, Geography Dept., Liverpool University)

2009-10-06 13:00: Information, Biological Complexity and Emergence (Prof. Gennaro Auletta, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome)

2009-10-20 13:00: Newton, Science and Religion (Prof. Robert Iliffe, University of Sussex)

2009-11-03 13:00: The Necessity of Chance: Randomness, Purpose and the Sovereignty of God (Prof. Paul Ewart, Univeristy of Oxford)

2009-11-12 17:30: Playing God?: Toward Machines that Deny Their Maker (Prof. Rosalind Picard, MIT Media Laboratory)

2009-11-17 13:00: Calvin's Contributions to the Emergence of Modern Science (Prof. Alister McGrath, King's College, London)

2010-01-26 13:00: Scientific Explanations of Religious Experience and their Implications for Belief (Revd Dr Patrick Richmond, Vicar of Christ Church, Eaton)

2010-02-04 17:30: Religious Influences in the Founding of the Royal Society (Prof Peter Harrison, Oxford University)

2010-02-09 13:00: Biology in the Service of Natural Theology (Dr Jonathan Topham, University of Leeds)

2010-02-23 13:00: The Religious Roots of the Idea of Scientific Laws (Dr Lydia Jaegar, Institut Biblique de Nogent-sur-Maine, Paris)

2010-03-09 13:00: Sustainable Development - Is Religion Relevant? (Prof. Jan Boersema, Vrije University, Amsterdam)

2010-05-04 13:00: Human Enhancement - Threat or Promise? (Prof. Gareth Jones [University of Otago, New Zealand)

2010-05-18 13:00: Animal Suffering - Theological and Philosophical Perspectives (Prof. Michael Murray [Franklin and Marshall College])

2010-06-01 13:00: "A Passion for the Universal": Science, Jews and Others (Dr Noah Efron [Bar Ilan University, Israel])

2010-10-12 13:00: Neuronal Imaging of the Religious Brain (Revd Dr Alasdair Coles, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University)

2010-10-26 13:00: A Philosopher's Perspective on Anthropic Fine-Tuning (Dr Tim Mawson, Oxford University)

2010-11-09 13:00: Nanotechnology, Ethics and Religion (Prof. Russell Cowburn,  Cambridge University)

2010-11-23 13:00: Victor Stenger's Scientific Critique of Christian Belief (Prof. David Bartholomew, London School of Economics)

2012-02-14 17:30: From Physics to Theology - a Personal Story (Prof. Jurgen Moltmann, University of Tubingen)