Save the Date, April 23-24,2010, Berkeley, CA. The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) will be hosting a special two-day event this coming April celebrating STARS research. You will meet Paul Davies, internationally acclaimed physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, and STARS keynote lecturer, who will tell us how the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) can succeed. You will also meet two of the outstanding STARS teams and hear the latest results of their work on virtue ethics in light of the neurosciences and on how a capacity for interpreting the environment helped enable the evolution of life and undergird human openness to transcendence.

All proceeds from this event will support the Ian G. Barbour Chair in Theology and Science at CTNS/GTU and will be matched by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

Conference Schedule: (tentative)

Friday April 23, 2010, 7:00-9:00, First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley
Paul Davies, "Are We Alone in the Universe?: How the Search for ET can, and Should be Ramped Up"

Saturday April 24, 2010, Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley

10:00am-12:00pm, Warren Brown and Michael Spezio, "Virtue Ethics, Neuroscience, and the Transcendent: New Insights from the Interaction Between Neuroscience, Psychology, Philosophy and Theology"

1:00-3:00pm, Christopher Southgate and Andrew Robinson, "Information, Evolution, and Transcendence: Science, Philosophy and Theology in Creative Interaction"

More information including how to register will be available soon. Check out the next CTNS E-News and CTNS website (www.ctns.org) for more information.

Thank you for your interest in and support of CTNS. We hope to see you in April!