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Society seeks to use ENC as a base for broadening and strengthening thescience and religion dialogue throughout the Boston area.
(Faculty from
Boston University, Harvard University, and Gordon College are on the
steering
committee.)
Fall 2007
Book Discussion:
E. O.
Wilson, The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on
Earth (2006). aculty Lounge,
Tues, Thurs, 12:30-1:30. Led by Assistant
Professor of History Randall Stephens.
John Brockman, Intelligent Thought: Science versus the
Intelligent Design Movement (2006). Faculty
Lounge, Tues, Thurs, 12:30-1:30. Led by Don
Christensen.
Summer 2007
Public Lectures:
Mon,
June 25, 9:00 a.m., Ross
Stein, “Chemical Systems and the Emergence of Bio-Complexity:
Philosophical and Theological Musings of a Chemist,” at the Concord
Museum.
Thurs,
June 28, 8:30 p.m., Ken
Miller, Anna
Case Winters, and Karl Giberson:
“God,
Darwin, &
Design: The Struggle for America's Soul,” Eastern
Nazarene College.
Fri,
June 29, 8:30 a.m., John
Haught, “God,
Evolution, and the Promise of Nature,” Eastern
Nazarene College.
Fri,
July 6, 6:00
p.m., Banquet
featuring remarks from John Polkinghorne,
“The
Promise of Open
Theology,” Eastern
Nazarene College.
Spring 2007
Public Lectures:
Wed, Feb 14, 7:30 p.m., Owen
Gingerich, “Proof and Persuasion: How
Galileo Changed
the Rules of Science” Eastern
Nazarene College: 15 Shrader Hall. Owen Gingerich is Professor
Emeritus of Astronomy and History of Science at Harvard
University. He will examine the intellectual controversy over the
Book of Nature versus the Book of Scripture, novel scientific
interpretations versus a highly literal reading of the Bible. The
talk is sponsored by the Polkinhorne Society and is free and open to
the public. Read more . . .
Fri, April 20, 1:30-3:30
p.m., “Origins
Roundtable.” Eastern
Nazarene College, Location: TBA.
Participants include: Ronald
Numbers (Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine,
University of Wisconsin-Madison); Jon Roberts
(Professor of
History, Boston University); Karl Giberson
(Eastern Nazarene College); Donald Yerxa
(Eastern Nazarene
College). Sponsored by the Polkinghorne Society at Eastern Nazarene
College.
Book Discussion:
Owen
Gingerich, God's Universe
(Harvard, 2006). ENC
Faculty Lounge, Tues, Thurs, 12:30-1:30. Led by
Assistant Professor of Religion Eric
Severson.
Karl
Giberson and Mariano Artigas, Oracles
of Science: Celebrity Scientists versus God and Religion (Oxford
University Press, 2006). ENC Faculty Lounge, Tues, Thurs, 12:30-1:30. Led by Assistant
Professor of Religion Eric
Severson.
Fall 2006
Book Discussion:
Richard
Dawkins, The God Delusion (Houghton
Mifflin, 2006). ENC Faculty Lounge, Tues, Thurs, 12:30-1:30.
Spring 2006
Public Lectures:
Feb 7, 2006, 7 p.m., Shrader Lecture Hall, ENC
Co-sponsored by the
Gould Lecture Series. NNU philosopher Tom Oord on “The Science of Love”
Mar 15, 2006, 7:30
p.m., Mann Student Center Auditorium, ENC
Harvard astronomer Owen
Gingerich on “Contemporary
Science and Traditional Christianity: Reflections on the
Contributions
of John Polkinghorne.” This event will also feature videotaped
greetings
from Sir John Polkinghorne.
Book Discussion:
Darrel Falk, Coming
to Peace with Science (IVP, 2004). ENC Faculty Lounge, Tues,
12:30-1:30.
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