Thursday, February 19, 4:30pm
BSLC 001, 924 East 57th Street
John Haught (Georgetown University)
Many scientists and philosophers claim that a Darwinian understanding of life has rendered the idea of God unnecessary. Descent, diversity, design, death, suffering, sex, intelligence, morality, and religion—features of life that had previously been understood theologically—now seem open to a purely natural explanation. This lecture will consider whether the claims of evolutionary naturalists are coherent and whether a theological understanding of life can still be reconciled with biological accounts.
cosponsored by the Program on Medicine and Religion and the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop