“Science, Religion, and the Question of Cosmic Purpose”
Monday, November 6, 2006, 7 p.m., Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall
a public lecture by
John F. Haught, Ph.D.
Landegger Distinguished Professor of Theology
Georgetown University
John F. Haught, Ph.D., is the Landegger Distinguished Professor of Theology at Georgetown University. His area of expertise is systematic theology, with a special interest in issues of science, cosmology, ecology, and reconciling evolution and religion. He is the author of several important books on the creation-evolution controversy, including Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution, God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution, and Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution. Haught also established the Georgetown Center for the Study of Science and Religion.
featuring responses from
Barbara Forrest, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Southeastern Louisiana University
Barbara Forrest, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. An outspoken critic of intelligent design, she co-author of Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design, which examines the goals and strategies of the intelligent design movement and its attempts to undermine the teaching of evolutionary biology. Forrest serves on the board of directors of the National Center for Science Education, the National Advisory Council of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the New Orleans Secular Humanist Association.
and
Paul A. Nelson, Ph.D.
Discovery Institute Fellow and
Adjunct Professor, Department of Religion and Science, Biola University
Intelligent design advocate Paul A. Nelson, Ph.D., adjunct professor in the Department of Science and Religion at Biola University, is a fellow of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture and of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design. He has published articles in Biology & Philosophy, Zygon, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and Touchstone, as well as chapters in the anthologies Mere Creation, Signs of Intelligence, and Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics. Nelson is the grandson of creationist author Byron C. Nelson and edited a book of his work, The Creationist Writings of Byron C. Nelson.
