Speakers

Who? Alvin Plantinga, John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame

Topic: "Divine Action in the World"

One of the points of tension between science and religion is the claim that modern science suggests or implies that God never acts specially in the world -- that there are no miracles (Jesus' rising from the dead, for example), or any other kind of divine action in the world beyond creation and conservation. Physics, so it is said, presupposes or implies determinism, and determinism implies that no miracles ever occur. I take a look at the claim and conclude that it doesn't hold water -- either for Newtonian science, or for the more recent science of relativity theory and quantum mechanics.

When? Thursday, April 10, 3:00 p.m.

Where? Schaap Science Center, Room 1000

(We are grateful to the following departments and institutions for cosponsoring Plantinga's visit: Religion, Physics, Biology, Mathematics, Crossroads, and the Reforming Fund for Faith & Learning.)

Refreshments will be served.

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April 10 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Alvin Plantinga (John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame) is expected to be a guest at a dinner seminar to which all faculty members are to be invited; the topic of the evening will be "Chrisian Scholarship". An email invitation, with instructions for how to rsvp, will be sent sometime in the coming weeks.

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Joseph LaPorte at
x 7621 or jlaporte@hope.edu.