[asa] Evolution Conference in Rome

Any of you all been invited to participate?

http://www.evolution-rome2009.net/index.php?lang=en

Biological Evolution: Facts and Theories"

A critical appraisal 150 years after "The origin of species"

 <http://www.unigre.it> Pontifical Gregorian University
Rome, 3-7 March 2009

with the collaboration of
 <http://www.nd.edu/> University of Notre Dame (Indiana)

and under the high patronage of

 <http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/cultr/index.htm>
Pontifical Council for Culture

A century and a half since Charles Darwin's "The origin of species",
cornerstone of evolutionary biology, and after very important recent
scientific developments, this issue of biological evolution deserves a
careful and serious reconsideration from a scientific point of view as well
as in a philosophical and theological perspective, avoiding the ideological
positions that have often dominated the debate.

With this conviction and with the more general purpose of promoting a fair
and fruitful dialectical relationship between Science, Philosophy and
Theology, the Pontifical Gregorian University <http://www.unigre.it/> , in
collaboration with the University <http://www.nd.edu/> of Notre Dame
(Indiana, USA), under the high patronage of the Pontifical Council for
Culture
<http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/cultr/index.htm> and
in the framework of the STOQ Project <http://www.stoqproject.it/index.htm>
(Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest), is organizing a series of
workshops and an International Conference.

The whole initiative aims at giving its contribution to the idea that
Science, on the one hand, and Theology, on the other, represent different
fields of analysis and interpretation, though often they are incorrectly
overlapped, causing confusion and ideological controversies.

A serious philosophical reflection can be a benefit for both Science and
Theology, showing where points of convergence can be found and how these
fields could be integrated.

In particular, within the complex and multifaceted issue of the
Science-Faith relationship, this event focuses on the possibility to
reconcile in the same philosophical position the "Creation" thinking and the
"Evolution" thinking, without the first pretending to be a scientific theory
nor the second being reduced to a dogma.

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Dick Fischer, GPA president

Genesis Proclaimed Association

"Finding Harmony in Bible, Science and History"

www.genesisproclaimed.org

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