Event Title
Keynote Address: The Myth of the Science-Religion Wars—and Why it Matters to your Kids
Location
Haughey Hall, Science Complex
Start Date
25-10-2014 9:30 AM
End Date
25-10-2014 10:30 AM
Description
No matter how much has been written by historians debunking the warfare myth, it still has a tremendous influence in American culture. This lecture intends to make a small contribution to providing a more accurate picture of the relations between Christianity and the sciences, both past and present.
Keynote Address: The Myth of the Science-Religion Wars—and Why it Matters to your Kids
Haughey Hall, Science Complex
No matter how much has been written by historians debunking the warfare myth, it still has a tremendous influence in American culture. This lecture intends to make a small contribution to providing a more accurate picture of the relations between Christianity and the sciences, both past and present.
Comments
Nancey Murphy is professor of philosophy at Fuller Seminary, Pasadena. She received the Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley (philosophy of science) and the Th.D. from the Graduate Theological Union. Her first book, Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning, won the American Academy of Religion award for excellence. She is author of eight other books and co-editor of twelve. Her most recent is (with Warren Brown) Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will. Her research focuses on the role of modern and postmodern philosophy in shaping Christian theology; on relations between theology and science; and on neuroscience and philosophy of mind.