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Videos from JTF's 'Big Question' Discussion

Three distinguished scholars explored the Big Question of "Does Evolution Explain Human Nature?" during a recent discussion sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, Yale University, and Discover magazine. The panel featured Kenneth Miller, professor of biology at Brown University; Laurie Santos, a Yale psychologist and primate specialist; and David Sloan Wilson, an evolutionary theorist at Binghamton University.

Are science and faith incompatible?

On the weekend of March 13-14, Melbourne will host the Global Atheism Convention, with Richard Dawkins as a main speaker. No doubt the airwaves, as well as letters to the editor and opinion pieces in the print media and numerous blogs will endlessly recycle a persistent urban myth about the relationship between science and faith.

Save the Date: STARS Conference, April 23-24

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.

God and the Big Bang

Audio, video and lecture notes from David Wilkinson's recent lecture on "God and the Big Bang" is now available.

Go to the James Gregory website and follow the links.

Launch of Ethos: EA's Centre for Theology of Society

Ethos: EA's Centre for Theology of Society has commenced and will be launched on Sat 27th March. Ethos combines the operations of EA's Department of Public Theology with those of Zadok institute for Christianity and Culture. Come along and support this exciting new venture that will offer theological and ethical thinking and comment to a broad range of groups in Australia.

A conversation with Sarah Darwin and Tall Ship experience

Date: Thursday 25 February 2010
Time: 5.45pm (tallship tours from 4pm)
Venue: Nelson Room, Seaworks, 82 Nelson Place Williamstown (Melways 56 E10). Entry off Nelson Place (metered parking)

Sarah is Charles Darwin’s great, great granddaughter and a biologist. She is retracing her ancestor’s steps on the Dutch clipper Stad Amsterdam for TV station VPRO.

Science, Religion and the Truth of Genesis

The recent ABC audio interview featuring Rev Stephen Ames, Dr Mick Pope and Dr Shane Clifton is now available for download from the Sunday Nights site.

Climate wars give science bad name

UNIVERSITY leaders are pressing for a public campaign to restore the intellectual and moral authority of Australian science in the wake of the climate wars, writes Luke Slattery in The Australian.