Faith & Science

Chemist as Complementarian

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Fri, Nov 11, 2011 5:00 pm
Dr. Robert C. Fay, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Cornell University

Robert Purcell Community Center, Wendy Purcell Lounge

Robert C. Fay has been a visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of Bologna, an NSF Science Faculty Fellow at the University of East Anglia and the University of Sussex, and a NATO/Heineman Senior Fellow at Oxford University. His interests include the history of Christianity and its connections to science. See his article, Science and Christian Faith: Conflict or Cooperation?

The Finite and the Infinite: Two Leading Scientists discuss Nature, Knowledge, and Faith

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Fri, Mar 30, 2012 7:00 pm
Dr. Roald Hoffmann and Dr. Ian Hutchinson
Veritas Forum

Location: TBA

Dr. Ian Hutchinson is a Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT and author of Monopolizing Knowledge.

Friday Conversation with Dr. Ted Davis

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Fri, Apr 8, 2011 5:00 pm
Dr. Ted Davis, Professor of the History of Science, Messiah College
Friday Conversations

Music Room, Willard Straight Hall

Edward B. (Ted) Davis is Distinguished Professor of the History of Science at Messiah College (Grantham, PA), where he teaches courses on historical and contemporary aspects of Christianity and science and directs the Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science. He focuses primarily on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century and edited the 14 volumes of Robert Boyle's works.

Christianity and Science: From Conflict to Complementarity

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Sat, Apr 9, 2011 9:30 am
Dr. Edward "Ted" Davis, Professor of the History of Science, Messiah College
Graduate/ Faculty Conference

226 Weill Hall, Cornell University

Ever since Cornell University co-founder and first president Andrew Dickson White published his History of Warfare Between Science and Theology in Christendom, "warfare" has been employed as a metapher to describe the relationship of science and religion. In recent years, however, historians among others have questioned whether the warfare metaphor was ever really an accurate descriptor.

A Way Forward for Dialogue Between Religious and Scientific Communities

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Thu, Oct 28, 2010 7:00 pm
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rice University
Robert & Mabel Beggs Lecture on Science, Spirituality and Society

Sage Chapel

**Dr. Ecklund will be interviewed on All Things Equal, a Cornell-sponsored radio talk show Tuesday October 26.  You can listen live by tuning in to WHCU, 870 AM, at 8:30 AM, or listen to the podcast, which will be posted later that day, on the All Things Equal website.**

 

The Faith(s) of Scientists

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Thu, Apr 15, 2010 4:30 pm
Dr. Elaine Howard Ecklund, Professor of Sociology, Rice University

Bethe House

We will discuss what scientists think about religion and whether they perceive any possible areas of overlap with science. In particular we will uncover the surprising reasons scientists believe and the surprising reasons scientists do not believe.

 

Elaine Howard Ecklund is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rice University, where she also serves as a Rice Scholar of the James Baker III Institute for Public Policy, and Director of the Program on Religion and Public Life at the Institute for Urban Research.

The Worldviews of Great Scientists

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Wed, Sep 8, 2010 7:30 pm
Dr. Henry Fritz Schaefer, Director, Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia

Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall

 

ABSTRACT

What Scientists Really Think About Religion

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Sat, Apr 17, 2010 7:00 pm
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Professor of Sociology, Rice University
Graduate Christian Fellowship Roundtable

Big Red Barn

We will examine whether there are places in the university where science and religion might fruitfully connect and models scientists with faith have for participating in religious communities.

 

Elaine Howard Ecklund is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rice University, where she also serves as a Rice Scholar of the James Baker III Institute for Public Policy, and Director of the Program on Religion and Public Life at the Institute for Urban Research.

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