Religion and Science Roundtable
| Students, faculty, staff, church leaders and community members interested in constructive interdisciplinary dialogue between religion and science are invited to be our guests. Each meeting begins with a dinner at 6 p.m. and is followed with a lecture at approximately 7 p.m. in the Carol Grotnes Belk Main Room of the William Henry Belk Student Center on the campus of St. Andrews University. Please make reservations by sending an email to rsvp@sapc.edu or calling 910-277-3968 no later than one week prior to the Roundtable. |
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February 21, 2012
The Honorable Dr. James G. Martin
"Science and Religion: The New Revelation"
From a rough start with Galileo and Darwin, some religions have balked at science, the solar system, the age of the earth and evolution of species. Some atheists have taken advantage of this. Modern science is finidn reconciliation with religion, enhanced by growing evidence that we did not get here by random processes. Astronomy, physics, geology and biology are providing profound concepts that allow greater compatibility with theistic belief. To that we will add some 'secrets' from organic chemistry.
The Hon. Dr. James G. Martin was the 66th governor of North Carolina. He had previously served six terms as a member of the U.S. Congress for the 9th District of North Carolina. He recently retired from McGuire Woods Consulting. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton University. |
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April 17, 2012
The Rev. Dr. Ron Crossley
"Christ, Creation and Contemporary Cosmology, Part II"
Down through the ages, prescientific and scientific worldviews (cosmologies) have had important effects on the theologies of their times. Continuing thoughts from a presentation in February 2011, Crossley will give an overview of three prior examples of cosmology on theology. Then, in light of theological lessons learned by those examples, the presentation will outline emerging theologies that attempt to respond to such scientific advances since Einstein as the Big Bang theory, quantum theory and the recent theories of dark matter and dark energy.
The Rev. Dr. Ron Crossley first came to St. Andrews in 1968 as Assistant Professor of Religion and served for 16 years as a faculty member and administrator. He currently serves as a gues lecturer in the St. Andrews General Honors program and as a teacher in the St. Andrews Institute of Lifelong Learning. |
| The Religion and Science Roundtables are associated with the annual John Calvin McNair Lecture on Science and Theology hosted each fall by St. Andrews. The McNair Lecture was established by the 1857 will of John Calvin McNair who asked that "the object of which lecture(s) shall be to show the mutual bearing of Science and Theology upon each other...." |
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