CiS Cambridge Lectures

CiS-St. Edmunds Cambridge Lecture Series

This termly lecture series on science and religion is a continuation of the earlier CiS – St Edmund’s College lecture series, re-named due to the fact that the series is now being funded as part of the activities of the Faraday Institute.

Previous lectures include:

• The Bible and the Emergence of Modern Science
  Prof Peter Harrison
• Has Science eliminated God? Richard Dawkins and the Meaning of Life
  Prof Alister McGrath
• Science and the Bible: Are they incompatible? The creation story as a test case
  Rev Dr Ernest Lucas
• Can Scientists Believe in Miracles?
  Prof Colin Humphreys
• Playing God: Scientific, Ethical, and Theological Challenges
  Prof Gareth Jones
• Power & Responsibility: Science, Humanity and Religion in the 21st Century
  Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
• Do Science and Religion need each other?
  Prof Roger Trigg
• Truth in Science: Proof, Persuasion & The Galileo affair
  Prof Owen Gingerich
• Hawking, Dawkins & the Matrix
  Revd Dr David Wilkinson
• Preserving Biodiversity: Is there a Biblical Reason?
  Sir Gillean Prance
• Has Science made Religion Redundant?
  Revd Dr John Polkinghorne, KBE
• Global Warming: The Science, the Impacts & the Politics
  Sir John Houghton
• Darwinism & Religion: A Revisionist View of the Wilberforce-Huxley Debate
  Prof John Hedley Brooke
• Psychology & Christianity: The view both ways
  Prof Malcolm Jeeves
• The Problem of Mental Causation: How does reason get its grip on the brain?
  Prof Nancey Murphey
• Stem Cells
  Lord Walton of Detchant

More lectures can be found on the official CiS/Faraday Lecture webpage, as well as details of up-coming events.