For the Grand Rapids, MI, area:
The next Christian Perspectives in Science seminar at Calvin College is
Friday, February 15, 3:30 PM in Science Building room 110.
Speaker: Richard Colling, Professor of Biology, Olivet Nazarene
University; author of the book "Random Designer"
(http://www.randomdesigner.com)
Title: Randomness, Purpose, God, and Evolution: Can they go together?
Abstract:
The history books of life -- fossils and DNA -- reveal a most remarkable
creation story. Over unfathomable eons of prescribed life and death cycles,
single-celled life has advanced as a divine, majestic, and interconnected web.
Filling every niche of our dynamic ever-changing planet, evolutionary creation
has miraculously culminated in sentient beings capable of self and
God-awareness -- us! As Christians desiring to remain faithful and culturally
credible in our claim that God is the creator and that all truth is God's
truth, we are challenged to work together across faith boundaries seeking ways
to effectively integrate knowledge from science into a dynamic and coherent
faith. This talk introduces a new creation "logos" -- Random (Equal
Opportunity) Design. Simple, but ultimately profound, random design reflects a
God-ordained and sustained paradigm of astonishing creative genius that
produces an integrated network of unrivaled biological development. The talk
includes defining appropriate definitions of randomness, the importance of
adequate information/dot development, examples of randomness generating
remarkable biological order, and a call to expand traditional views of
scripture and science to accommodate a bigger, more profound God.
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