The Human Person and Biotechnology: Artificial Intelligence and its Limitations
Artificial intelligence is increasingly interfacing with all aspects of human life, raising particular ethical challenges in medicine and biotechnology. The ethical challenges of AI must be grounded in the limits […]
Non-Credit Course | Science and Religion: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
REGISTER HERE This event is in-person only. Intended for university students, faculty, and staff. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: […]
Thomas Aquinas, Scientist: How Might He Approach 21st Century Biotechnology
Despite flaws in his biology, Aquinas’ writings offer us guidance in our approach to 21st century biotechnology. Aquinas’ notion of a Just War provides us with a way for thinking […]
“The Grand Design: An Augustinian Reply to Stephen Hawking”
Cosponsored by The Theology Workshop Stephen Hawking has recently declared that philosophy is dead, and that science is the only reasonable method for securing knowledge. In response, Professor Cavadini will […]
A Conversation on Faith and Science, with Mark Wyman and Minyoung Wyman
This event is intended for college students. Dinner will be served. Contemporary culture is built in part on a mythology of the natural sciences. This mythology characterizes Christianity, particularly Catholicism, […]
The Modern Scientist as a Palimpsest of Three Fausts
Stephen Meredith (University of Chicago) cosponsored by the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop A palimpsest is a manuscript or painting produced over a previous work. This lecture will treat “the […]
Theology and Evolutionary Naturalism: How Much Can Biology Explain?
Thursday, February 19, 4:30pm BSLC 001, 924 East 57th Street John Haught (Georgetown University) REGISTER HERE Many scientists and philosophers claim that a Darwinian understanding of life has rendered the idea […]
The New Atheism: A Conversation with John Haught
REGISTER HERE In this luncheon conversation with students, Prof. John Haught will discuss the New Atheist critiques of religion. Do such arguments live up to a strict adherence to reason? […]
Science, Faith, and the New Atheism
John Haught (Georgetown University The bestselling books by the “New Atheists” Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens provide colorful portraits of the evils of religions, especially those […]
Science and Religion: The Myth of Conflict
In many ways, the supposed conflict between science and religion is really a conflict between “scientific materialism” and religion. The lecture will review the story of the relation between Christianity […]