Stephen Law

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion St Edmund’s College, Cambridge Science, Religion and Atheism Short Course No. 21 Murray Edwards College, Cambridge Friday 30th March – Sunday 1st April 2012 Is the discussion between science and religion affected by its narrator, be they theist, atheist or agnostic? This course is not to debate the existence of God but to explore answers to this question presented by speakers themselves coming from these different perspectives. Speakers and Topics include: A Plague on Both Your Houses: Prof. Michael Ruse Does the Evolutionary Narrative Support Theism or Atheism? Prof. Simon Conway Morris FRS and Dr Fern Elsdon-Baker Is the Universe Designed? Revd Dr Rodney Holder and Dr Stephen Law Perspectives on the Philosophy of Science and Religion Prof. Keith Ward and Dr Mark Vernon Does the History of Science and Religion depend on the Narrator? Dr Allan Chapman and Prof. Ronald Numbers For more details including bursaries and discounts, see www.fara...

I am chairing this event. Hope to see some of you there... CFI UK and South Place Ethical Society present: Public Debate Does Science Support Belief In God? Prof. Herman Philipse vs Prof. Richard Swinburne Chair: Stephen Law Tuesday May 10th, 7-9pm. Main Hall, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square. Holborn London WC1R 4RL £3 on the door. £2 students. Free entry to CFI UK friends (i.e. season ticket holders). An evening with two of the world’s most powerful and respected thinkers from either side of the theism/atheism divide. Topics likely to be addressed include: Does the orderliness of the universe point to a designer? Do discoveries in neuroscience, cosmology and other branches of empirical science reveal evidence of the hand of God? Richard Swinburne is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years, Prof. Swinburne has established himself as one of world’s foremost philosophers of religion. He is an influential proponent of natural the...