Angelicum Thomistic Institute - Science & Religion Online Series St. Albert the Great: Medieval Wisdom for Modern Science Fr. Thomas Davenport, OP (Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas - Angelicum) St. Albert the Great (1200-1280) was a Dominican priest, theologian, administrator, and bishop who was named a Doctor of the Church in 1931 and the patron ... Read more
Angelicum Thomistic Institute - Science & Religion Online Series Evolution and Goal-Directedness: How Darwin Re-Invented Teleology Fr. Mariusz Tabaczek, OP (Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas - Angelicum) The conviction that Charles Darwin got rid of teleology and replaced it with a new way of thinking about adaptation, concentrating predominantly on the notion of chance, ... Read more
Angelicum Thomistic Institute - Science and Religion Online Series An Exceptional Universe: Reflections from Physics Fr. Javier Sánchez Cañizares University of Navarra 17 January 2022 7pm live from the Angelicum, Rome 7pm CET / 6pm GMT / 1pm EST This is an online lecture. You can live-stream it on YouTube without ... Read more
Angelicum Thomistic Institute - Science & Religion Online Series Big Questions, and a Few Answers, at the Intersection of AI and Religion Brian Green Santa Clara University 16 February 2022 7pm CET / 6pm GMT / 1pm EST Language: English What has Athens to do with Jerusalem, or Silicon Valley to Rome? It turns out ... Read more
Angelicum Thomistic Institute - Science & Religion Online Series The Doctrine of Creation & Theories of Evolution Kenneth Kemp University of St. Thomas 15 March 2022 7pm CET / 6pm GMT / 1pm EST Language: English According to a popular view of evolution and creation, the two ideas are alternative, indeed contradictory, answers to the ... Read more
The Origin of Life and Nature Before Sin: Scientific and Theological Perspectives 1-2 April 2022 Location: Angelicum - Aula Minor, and livestreamed Language: English One of the most fundamental and, paradoxically, least understood problems in biology is the origin of life. All possible scenarios - ranging from life emerging as a result of a supernatural ... Read more
Angelicum Thomistic Institute - Science & Religion Online Series Why Developmental Psychology Matters for Virtue Daniel De Haan University of Oxford 19 April 2022 7pm CEST / 6pm BST / 1pm EDT Language: English This is an online lecture. You can live-stream it on YouTube without registering, but if you register, we will send ... Read more
Creation and the Big Bang Thomas Davenport, OP Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) 28 April 2022 4:00 pm John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland Language: English Genesis 1 describes the creation of the world as occurring over seven orderly days while modern cosmology describes a chaotic 13.8 billion year journey since ... Read more
Does Science Leave Room for Free Will? Thomas Davenport, OP Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) 29 April 2022 6:00 pm Instytut Filozofii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków, Poland Language: English The tension between human freedom and natural order has troubled philosophers for millenia, but as contemporary science probes more deeply the fundamental workings of the ... Read more
Angelicum Thomistic Institute - Science & Religion Online Series Search for Alien Life in the Solar System: the Science and Theological Implications Jonathan Lunine Cornell University 17 May 2022 7:00 PM CEST (Rome) / 6:00 PM BST (London) / 1:00 PM EDT (New York City) Language: English Space technologies now make possible the search for ... Read more
Angelicum Thomistic Institute - Science & Religion Online Series Neuroimaging: What Can It Tell Us About Human Beings? Sofia Reimão University of Lisbon 07 June 2022 7:00 PM CEST (Rome) / 6:00 PM BST (London) / 1:00 PM EDT (New York City) Language: English Dr. Sofia Reimão obtained a master's degree in Philosophy from the ... Read more
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