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June 11th @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Saving Darwin’s Soul and Science’s Life

Jun 11
Saving Darwin's Soul and Science's Life

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$25 General / Free for current students with ID
$500 Host Committee (includes 10 tickets) / $2,500 Event Vice-Chair (includes 10 tickets) 
/ $5,000 Event Chair (includes 10 tickets). This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and is cosponsred by the Society of Catholic Scientists.

5:30pm   Hors d’oeuvres reception
6:30pm   Talk and Q&A
7:30pm   Close

The late 19th century witnessed the invention of what is now a well-worn trope: Science versus Religion. From this contrived construction modern fundamentalism was born: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical. Such fundamentalisms spawned artificial ghettos of specialization that encouraged ambitions for totalizing disciplinesDarwinism was itself an example and victim of such blinkered vanity. Only by realizing the intrinsic marriage of all modes of knowledge can humanity’s most creative efforts flourish; otherwise, nihilism ensues.


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