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Venice School of Science and Religion

Project Leader(s)

Karl Giberson
Director, Forum on Faith and Science
Gordon College

Thomas Jay Oord
Department of Philosophy and Department of Religion
Northwest Nazarene University

William Shea
Galileo Professor of History of Science
University of Padua

Donald Yerxa
Chair, History Department
Eastern Nazarene College

Grantee(s)
Northwest Nazarene University (Nampa, Idaho)
Description

The Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti is hosting a select group of scholars for a three-year program of week-long summer seminars that explore the interface of science and religion. Planned themes include "God and the Laws of Nature" (2008), "Evolution and Human Uniqueness" (2009), and "Evolutionary Psychology and Values" (2010).

Grant Amount:
$295,800
Start Date:
May 2007
End Date:
December 2010
Grant ID:
11369
Other Participants

Paul Davies
Director, BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science
Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona)

Owen Gingerich
Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and of the History of Science
Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

John Polkinghorne
University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Frans de Waal

Charles Howard Chandler Professor of Psychology
Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia)

Simon Conway Morris
Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology
University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Michael Ruse
Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy
Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida)

Józef Zycinski
Papal Academy of Theology (Krakow, Poland)

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