Rolston lecture this Friday, February 3
“Generating Life on Earth: Five Questions,” the 2006 Potthoff Legacy Lecture, will be delivered by Holmes Rolston III at Christ Church United Methodist on Friday, February 3, at 7:30 p.m.
An internationally recognized authority in the area of science and religion, Rolston will be tackling questions that are much in the news these days. While he purposely avoids Intelligent Design terminology, the questions he addresses are concerned with issues raised in that debate. For instance, Rolston asks, “Are the increasing diversity and complexity of life-forms the result of a random, an inevitable, or a contingent process?” and “What is the origin of the genetic information that guides the development of life-forms?” Rolston suggests that questions such as these open up “a possibility space” for faith in God.
Often called the father of environmental ethics, Rolston has lectured on all seven continents and authored six books, among them Genes, Genesis and God. Rolston’s name came to public attention in 2003 when he was awarded the 2003 Templeton Prize for Progress toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities for his innovative work, an award of one million dollars, given annually by the Templeton Foundation to acknowledge that spiritual discoveries, as well as scientific discoveries, are essential to human advancement.
Rolston is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University and this year is a Visiting Professor of Bioethics at Yale University.
An internationally recognized authority in the area of science and religion, Rolston will be tackling questions that are much in the news these days. While he purposely avoids Intelligent Design terminology, the questions he addresses are concerned with issues raised in that debate. For instance, Rolston asks, “Are the increasing diversity and complexity of life-forms the result of a random, an inevitable, or a contingent process?” and “What is the origin of the genetic information that guides the development of life-forms?” Rolston suggests that questions such as these open up “a possibility space” for faith in God.
Often called the father of environmental ethics, Rolston has lectured on all seven continents and authored six books, among them Genes, Genesis and God. Rolston’s name came to public attention in 2003 when he was awarded the 2003 Templeton Prize for Progress toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities for his innovative work, an award of one million dollars, given annually by the Templeton Foundation to acknowledge that spiritual discoveries, as well as scientific discoveries, are essential to human advancement.
Rolston is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University and this year is a Visiting Professor of Bioethics at Yale University.
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