[asa] seminar on "God of the gaps": Fri. Sept. 21, 3:30

For the Grand Rapids, Michigan, area:

The next Christian Perspectives in Science seminar at Calvin College is

       Friday, September 21, 3:30 PM in Science Building room 110.

Speaker: Ronald Larson, Chair and George Granger Brown Professor of
             Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan.

Title: Revisiting the "God of the gaps"

Abstract:
  Antipathy to "God of the gaps" arguments, when taken to its extreme
conclusion, leads to passiveness in the face of aggressive, naturalistic,
science seeking to claim for itself alone all truth, including that
traditionally the province of theology or philosophy. Such pretensions
must be resisted for the sake of science as much as for the sake of
theology, and this resistance must not shrink from calling attention to
"gaps" or failures of science to explain credibly all that it sometimes
claims as its own. This talk will explore the issues surrounding several
chasms in modern scientific explanations, including the fine tuning of
natural laws, the origin of life, of human consciousness, of morality, and
of human spiritual experience.
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Received on Fri Sep 14 13:50:12 2007