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Faraday Institute Film & Faculty Panel on Biological Origins

Wednesday, November 14 @ 4:00 p.m, Woodward IRC Room 5 (UBC Gate One)

Reading Material: Alvin Plantinga, Where the Conflict Really Lies. 

UBC Regent & TWU Live Panelists (moderator Martin Barlow)

• Bart van der Kamp, Professor Emeritus and Former Head of Forestry, UBC
• Iain Provan, Professor of Ancient Hebrew Literature, Regent College
• Judith Toronchuk,  retired Professor Biopsychology, Trinity Western University 

Distinguished Participant in the Faraday Institute Film on Origins and Evolution

Many have been guests of the GFCF in past years

• Sir John Polkinghorne, former top Mathematical Physicist, former President of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and a World Authority on the Science and Religion Discourse
•  Katherine Blundell, Astrophysicist, Oxford University
•  William Dembski, American Mathematician and Philosopher, Proponent of Intelligent Design
•  Simon Conway Morris, Palaeobiologist, Cambridge University.
•  Sir John Houghton, Climate Scientist, Former Chair of the Scientific Assessment Panel of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Alister McGrath, Theologian of Science & Religion, King’s College, London
• Ard Louis, Biophysicist, Oxford University
• Denis Alexander, Director or the Faraday Institute for Science & Religion, Cambridge University and Former Cancer Researcher.
• Francis Collins, Former Director, Human Genome Research, now the Director of the National Institute of Health, Maryland.

Questions Discussed in Film

• What is the explanatory power of evolution theory? What does it fail to explain?
• What are we to think of Intelligent Design Theory and irreducible complexity?
• Is evolution compatible with belief in a God or does it eliminate need for God?
• Is evolution at all compatible with the biblical account of origins in Genesis?
• Can we apply evolution theory to human morality?
• What are we to make of the misuse of evolutionary theory in eugenics?
• What about the dark side of evolution–its waste, destruction, elimination?
• Should evolution ever be taken as a philosophy of life?
• What is our human responsibility to be stewards of our blue-green planet?