[SydPhil] [REMINDER] 2 DAYS TO GO - APRA KEYNOTE: PROFESSOR MICHAEL RUSE 'SCIENCE VERSUS RELIGION: HAS SCIENCE WON?'

[Nathan Everson]

KEYNOTE: PROFESSOR MICHAEL RUSE 'SCIENCE VERSUS RELIGION: HAS SCIENCE WON?'
WHERE: University of Sydney,
WHEN: Friday June 21, 4:45pm-6:15pm
COST: Full Conference Fee (includes symposium): Waged $260.00 / 
full-time student or unwaged $150.00
Day Fee (does not include symposium): Waged $150.00 / full-time student 
or unwaged $90.00

Abstract:
Historians have long shown that the nineteenth-century picture of 
science and religion
locked in bloody warfare is a caricature of the truth. Science has 
depended on religion as
often as it has challenged it. Nevertheless, it is surely true that, bit 
by bit, science has
encroached on religious claims. Six days of Creation, Adam and Eve, 
Noah’s Flood – all
have gone or had to be modified dramatically in face of science. With 
the success of
science, miracles and other supposed signs of the supernatural seem less 
and less
plausible. With the rise of the social sciences, biblical views about 
women and gays and
others are found wanting. Are we now at the point where science has 
completely
displaced religion, or is there still place for a full-throated faith? 
And if the latter, what
would it be and why would it be? This talk tackles these central 
questions in the science-religion
debate.

ABOUT MICHAEL RUSE:
Ruse has written extensively on evolutionary biology, both from a 
philosophical and
historical perspective. His books include The Philosophy of Biology 
(Hutchinson 1973);
The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw (Chicago 1979); 
and Taking
Darwin Seriously (Blackwell 1986). He is the founding editor of Biology 
and Philosophy
and for twenty years has edited series of books in the philosophy of 
biology for
Cambridge University Press. His most recent book for the latest series 
is The
Philosophy of Human Evolution (Cambridge 2012).