Debate: Does Science Support Belief In God?
| Venue | Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL | Starting at / on | 10th May 2011 |
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| Start time | 7-9pm |
CFI UK and the South Place Ethical Society present:
"Does Science Support Belief In God?"
A public debate: Prof. Herman Philipse vs Prof. Richard Swinburne
Chair: Stephen Law
Tickets
Tickets available on the door at £3 or £2 for students.
The event
An evening with two of the world’s most powerful and respected thinkers from either side of the theism/atheism divide. Topics likely to be addressed include: Does the orderliness of the universe point to a designer? Do discoveries in neuroscience, cosmology and other branches of empirical science reveal evidence of the hand of God?
Richard Swinburne is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years, Prof. Swinburne has established himself as one of world’s foremost philosophers of religion. He is an influential proponent of natural theology, that is, philosophical arguments for the existence of God. Prof. Swinburne’s “Is There A God?” has been translated into 14 languages.
Herman Philipse Is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, and one of the world’s leading atheist thinkers. Philipse’s 1995 Atheist Manifesto was republished in an expanded edition in 2004 with a foreword by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who partly credits the book for her shift from Islam to atheism. Philipse’s forthcoming book “God in the Age of Science? A Critique of Religious Reason” will be published by OUP in 2011/12.
