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A series of sermons began on Sunday 11 October in Christ’s College Chapel which attempts to heal the “fractured relationship” between science and faith.
Seven speakers – including Professor Robert Winston, presenter of the BBC television series ‘Child of Our Time’ – are participating over the course of the Michaelmas Term. They will be speaking in the place where Charles Darwin worshipped as a
First to take the lectern on 11 October as John Cornwell, Director of the Science and Human Dimension Project at
Other speakers will include Dr Simon Conway-Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the
Reverend Christopher Woods, Chaplain and Director of Studies in Theology at Christ’s College, and organiser of the sermons, says he hopes the series of events will encourage the realms of science and faith to engage in a mutually fruitful manner.
He says: “We are keen to heal what might be considered a fractured relationship between the two disciplines. Some scientists seem blinkered as to what faith can offer, while theology needs to engage with scientific theories. Faith does not have to abandon scientific endeavour.”
Christopher Woods adds that there is much to lose if science and faith become more polarised. “Fundamentally we will be more unhappy,” he says. “We are all in the quest for some notion of the truth. If we don’t engage, we are going in different directions.”
The Michaelmas term sermon series runs each Sunday until 22 November. All are welcome.
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