John Lennox - Science and Ethics

John Lennox MA, MA(Bioethics), PhD., DPhil, DSc., is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science, and Pastoral Advisor at Green Templeton College. He is also Lecturer at Wycliffe-Hall, University of Oxford. He is a native of Northern Ireland and went to school there. He was then Exhibitioner and Senior Scholar at Emmanuel College Cambridge, where he also attended the last lectures of C.S. Lewis, and then became Reader in Mathematics at the University of Wales, Cardiff. During his 29 years in Cardiff he spent a year at each of the universities of Wuerzburg, Freiburg (as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow) and Vienna and has lectured extensively in both Eastern and Western Europe, Russia and North America on mathematics, apologetics and the exposition of Scripture.

He has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles on mathematics and co-authored two Oxford Mathematical Monographs and has worked as a translator of Russian mathematics. He also speaks French and German.

In addition he teaches on Science and Religion in the University of Oxford and on Apologetics and Biblical Exposition at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He is the author of a number of books on the relations of science with religion and ethics, the most recent of which are: Informetika, Budapest, Harmat-Keve, 2001; Hat die Wissenschaft Gott begraben? (Has Science buried God?), Brockhaus, 2002 (Spanish Clie 2003). Worldview 2004 with Professor D.W. Gooding (3 volumes in Russian and Ukrainian). His most recent book is "God's Undertaker - Has Science buried God?" (Lion Hudson 2007).

During the Cold War he made repeated visits over 25 years to many of the Communist countries and since the collapse of communism has visited Russia repeatedly speaking in Universities and Academies of Science.

He has been married to Sally (for 40 years) and they have three children and four grandchildren and live in the countryside near Oxford.

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion is an academic research enterprise based at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. The Institute has four main activities:

1. Scholarly research and publication on science and religion, including the organisation of invited groups of experts to write joint publications.
2. To provide short-term courses in science and religion.
3. To organise seminars and lectures on science and religion.
4. To provide accurate information on science and religion for the international media and wider public.

The group of scholars based at St Edmund's College is linked informally to a cohort of Faraday Associates, based mainly within the scientific community, who are actively involved in science-religion interactions through publishing and lecturing.

The Faraday Institute derives its name from Michael Faraday, one of Britain's best-known scientists, who saw his faith as integral to his scientific research. The logo of the Institute is based on Faraday's discoveries.

The Faraday Institute has a Christian ethos, but encourages engagement with a wide diversity of opinions concerning interactions between science and religion, without engaging in advocacy. It aims to provide accurate information in order to facilitate informed debate.

The Faraday Institute is grateful to the following agencies for financial support: Sir Halley Stewart Trust; Hinchley Charitable Trust; Hockerill Foundation; John Ray Initiative; John Templeton Foundation.; Jubilee Centre; Kirby-Laing Trust; Kuhn Foundation; Panacea Society; Schulte Roth & Zabel Trust; Sciteb Ltd; Stark-Roberts Foundation; Tyndale House.

Christians in Science

CiS is an international network of those concerned with the relationship between science and Christian faith, open to scientists, teachers, students and all those with an interest in this dialogue.

Although CiS is primarily a professional group, aimed at those working in science, a significant proportion of our members are not scientists, and we are happy to welcome into membership anyone with an interest in science and faith.

CiS is an explicitly Christian society and full membership is open only to those who can affirm the declaration below. Corporate bodies such as libraries and individuals who do not wish to make this declaration are welcome to become associate members.

I declare my belief in the triune God as creator and sustainer of the universe, and my faith in Jesus as Saviour, Lord of all and God.

I acknowledge the Bible as the Word of God and its final authority in matters of faith and conduct.

As a steward of God's world, I accept my responsibility to encourage the use of science and technology for the good of humanity and the environment.

International Society Science & Religion

ISSR was founded in 2002 under the inaugural presidency of mathematical physicist and Anglican priest Sir John Polkinghorne. The Presidency subsequently passed to Professor George Ellis and then to Sir Brian Heap. The current President is Professor John Hedley Brooke.

Aims

Our central aim is the facilitation of dialogue between the two academic disciplines of science and religion, one of the most important current areas of debate in terms of understanding the nature of humanity. This includes both the enhancement of the profile of the science-religion interface in the public eye, as well as the safeguarding of the quality and rigour of the debate in the more formal, academic arena.

Membership

While maintaining rigorous qualifications for membership (membership is through nomination by existing members only) the Society has now grown to over 140 members, including many of the leading scholars in the science and religion field. Indeed the last two presidents, George Ellis, a theoretical cosmologist and Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, and John Polkinghorne, are both recipients of the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities - the world's best-known religion prize, awarded each year to a living person to encourage and honour those who advance spiritual matters.

Membership of the society is truly universal: the society incorporates, and welcomes, representatives from a variety of faith traditions including Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, and Islam in addition to Christianity. Membership is also widely distributed geographically, with representatives from countries as diverse as South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as well as from Europe and America.

Nominations for membership of ISSR are made on the basis of three categories of achievement. These categories are as follows:

• Major contribution (e.g. books) to the field of science/religion; or
• Excellent standing in one of the relevant areas (science, religion, philosophy) together with sustained interest in or support of the science/religion debate; or
• Demonstration of excellent organizational and entrepreneurial skills within the science/religion arena.

www.issr.org.uk

Instituto Ciência e Fé

"Foi no começo de 1995 que um grupo de profissionais liberais e intelectuais de Curitiba teve a idéia de reunir-se regularmente para discutir temas atuais à luz da razão e da fé e também, desenvolver e apoiar pesquisas nas áreas da fenomenologia religiosa. Foi a partir disso que surgiu o Instituto Ciência e Fé." (retirado de http://www.cienciaefe.org.br/creche/creche.htm)

Associação Brasileira de Pesquisa da Criação

"Este site é propriedade da ABPC - Associação Brasileira de Pesquisa da Criação. Sendo esta uma organização criacionista, deduz-se corretamente deste fato, que nossos argumentos para explicar as origens do universo e da vida são apresentados da perspectiva criacionista. Isto, porém, não significa, como alguns poderiam imaginar, que o modelo criacionista pende para o obscurantismo, não considerando as verdades já comprovadas pela ciência. Ao contrário, mostraremos que é o modelo da criação que se harmoniza perfeitamente com as leis da natureza e com tudo que tem sido demonstrado como de fato científico. Caso você seja simpatizante do evolucionismo, lançamos aqui um desafio: examine nossos argumentos em favor da criação e, se puder, continue a pensar em termos evolucionistas. " (retirado de http://www.impacto.org.br/site.htm)

Fé e Ciência

Mantida e atualizada por Karl Heinz Kienitz (currículo). "A finalidade desta página é contribuir subsídios para uma reflexão objetiva sobre ciência e fé cristã, na tradição dos grandes cientistas com fé no Deus da Bíblia, o criador e sustentador de todas as coisas. Entre estes cientistas estão Kepler, Boyle, Ampère, Volta, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Cauchy, Euler, Boole, Faraday, Henry, Dalton, Joule, Pasteur, Mendel, Kelvin, Maxwell, Stokes, Riemann e von Braun, para enumerar apenas alguns nomes muito conhecidos. Suas vidas e obras corroboram o entendimento fundamental de que "o teísmo revelado nunca se ofereceu como uma fuga da racionalidade."

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