Hutton Honors College

Evolution and Faith:
Discussion Lunch with Evolutionary Theologist
John Haught

Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 * 12:30-2 p.m. * Harlos House (1331 E. Tenth St.) * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Are religion and evolution irreconcilable? Not according to John Haught, Distinguished Research Professor and Senior Fellow in Science and Religion at Georgetown University's Woodstock Theological Center.

Haught has written extensively on the intersection of faith and science, including God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution (2000); Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution (2001); Deeper than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution (2003); God and the New Atheism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens (2007); and Making Sense of Evolution: Darwin, God and the Drama of Life (due to be published in 2010). Among other things, he has written about what theistic evolution can contribute to ecological ethics, how humans should treat the natural world and non-human life.

Haught served as an expert witness for the plaintiff in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (2005), the first federal case to challenge a public school district's requirement that intelligent design be taught as an alternative to evolution, and has lectured frequently on the controversies surrounding evolution, intelligent design, and creationism.

Haught's visit to campus is sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies as part of the College of Arts and Sciences' Themester series, and he will present a public lecture on "Evolution and Faith: What Is at Stake?" on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Rawles Hall 100. The discussion lunch is co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program.

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