Professor Tom McLeish, “Faith and Wisdom in Science”, presented by the Centre for the Study of Science, Religion & Society (CSSRS)
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- Tom McLeish will discuss themes from his recently published book Faith and Wisdom in Science (Oxford University Press, 2014). In this book, Tom takes a scientist’s reading of the Old Testament’s Book of Job and uses this ancient text as a centrepiece to make the case for science as a deeply human and ancient activity, embedded in some of the oldest stories told about the human desire to understand the natural world. Drawing on stories from the modern science of chaos and uncertainty, alongside medieval, patristic, classical and Biblical sources, Faith and Wisdom in Science challenges much of the current “science and religion” debate as operating with the wrong assumptions and in the wrong space.
Tom McLeish is Professor of Physics at Durham University. A member of the Royal Society and several advanced physics institutes and the head of several large interdisciplinary research teams, his research interests revolve around soft condensed matter physics, biological physics, polymer molecular rheology and history of science.
A light lunch will be provided prior to the seminar.
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