An inspiring and unmissable Conversation Series. MIT Professor Alan Lightman (Einstein’s Dreams) & Professor Richard Dawkins on Science and Religion.

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Alan Lightman & Richard Dawkins: Science & Religion
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Science and Religion – Two Truths or One?

Alan Lightman and Richard Dawkins in conversation.

20th Sept 2018
6:45pm – 8:00pm

The Great Hall
Sherfield Building
Imperial College London - South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ

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As a theoretical physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a scientific view of the world, whose logic is governed by a small number of impersonal forces and laws. These decree that all things in the universe are relative, material and mortal. But one summer evening in Maine, looking at the stars from a small boat at sea, he was overcome by an oceanic feeling: a hint of something unified, absolute, and immaterial.

https://howtoacademy.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f87ff9f2b37acaa64ab36114a&id=d8688d87ab&e=6d0e59bcbe As an evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins can find no hint of an immaterial universe in hiding. Science arrives at knowledge by evidence, and everything else is fiction. If we need meaning, we go to art – or religion – to console us for its absence. Science explains most things. But not everything. If not ‘everything’, why not, and what do we call the rest? Does faith play any role in science? Yes, but not what is understood by religious faith. What kind of faith, then?

The encounter between science and religion has received an unprecedented public airing over the last decade. Join us for a head-to-head between two scientific sceptics who find themselves on different platforms, but waiting for the same train: would it be possible to prove or disprove the existence of an intelligent and purposeful creator – and, if so, how?

BIOGRAPHY:

Alan Lightman worked for many years as a theoretical physicist – and is the author of six novels and a memoir. He has taught at Harvard and at MIT, where he was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and the humanities. His Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine was published in March.

Richard Dawkins is an ethologist and evolutionary biologist. An emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, he was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. His books include The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker and The God Delusion.

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