The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

R.J. (Sam) Berry is Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College, London. He is a former President of the Linnean Society, the British Ecological Society, the European Ecological Federation, the Mammal Society, and Christians in Science. Prof. Berry was also a member of the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority (1990-1996) and of the Natural Environment Research Council (1981-1987), and was previously Editor of the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (1978-1990), a member of the General Synod of the Church of England(1970-1990) and a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion. Prof. Berry received the UK Templeton Award in 1996 for "Long and distinguished advocacy of the Christian faith among scientists" and received the Marsh Award for Ecology in 2001.

Recent Publications in Science and Religion

• Divine action: expected and unexpected. Zygon, 37: 717-27, 2002.
• God’s Book of Works. The Nature and Theology of Nature. London: T&T Clark,2003
• God & Darwin: the two books of nature. The Linnean, 20: 8-14, 2004.
• Did Homo sapiens become Homo divinus? In Listening to Creation Groaning: 172-86. Vischer, L. (ed). Geneva: John Knox Center, Publication no.16, 2004
• Environmental Stewardship: Critical Perspectives – Past and Present. London: T&T Clark, 2006.

Recent Scientific Publications

• Orkney Nature. London: Poyser, 2000.
• A historical perspective on phenotype. In Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, volume 4: 537-47. Levin, S.A. (ed). San Diego: Academic Press, 2001.
• Environmental decision making in a technological age: prudence, wisdom and justice. Ethics in Science and Politics: 30-36, 2002.
• Island differentiation muddied by island biogeographers. Environmental Archaeology, 9: 117-121, 2004.
• The house mouse: a model and motor for evolutionary understanding. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 84: 335-47, 2005 (with Scriven, P.N.)

Prof. Sarah Coakley is the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, and a Fellow of Murray-Edwards College, at the University of Cambridge. She originally studied at Cambridge and Harvard, before taking a lectureship in Religious Studies at the Univeristy of Lancaster (1976-1991). She later became a university lecturer in Theology at Oxford, as well as a Tutorial Fellow of Oriel College (1991 - 1993). In 1993 she was made a tenured Professor of Christian Theology at Harvard Divinity School, and was promoted in 1995 to the Mallinckrodt Professorship (also at Harvard). She was appointed to her current chair at Cambridge  in 2007.

A philosophical and systematic theologian, Sarah Coakley became increasingly involved in interdisciplinary work whist at Harvard, and conducted collaborative research projects in medicine and religion (with Prof Arthur Kleinman), and in theology and evolutionary theory (with Prof Martin A. Nowak).  The work with Nowak garnered a $2 million 3-year research grant from the Templeton Foundation, and will issue you in a jointly edited book:  Evolution, Games and God:  The Principle of Cooperation (Harvard UP, forthcoming, 2009).

Sarah Coakley’s other publications include:  Christ Without Absolutes:  A Study of the Christology of Ernst Troeltsch (OUP, 1988); (ed.) Religion and the Body (CUP, 1997); Powers and Submissions (Blackwell, 2001); (co-ed), Pain and Its Transformations :  The Interface of Biology and Culture (2007), and (eds.) Re-Thinking Gregory of Nyssa and Re-Thinking Dionysius the Areopagite (both Blackwell, 2001 and 2009).  She is at work on a 4-volumed systematic theology, the first volume of which will appear next year as God, Sexuality and the Self:  An Essay ‘On the Trinity’ (CUP).

The Revd Dr Geoffrey Cook is Vice-Master of St. Edmund’s College and previously a member of the Scientific Staff of the Medical Research Council from 1986-2004, heading a research team in developmental neurobiology in the Department of Anatomy, Cambridge University from 1979-2004. Dr Cook was the first to describe the presence of sugars on the external surfaces of cell membranes, a completely novel concept at the time of this discovery, leading to a ground-breaking series of three first-author papers in Nature within the space of two years [Nature 188, 1011-1012, 1960; Nature 191, 44-47, 1961; Cook, G. M. Nature 195, 159-161, 1962]. Dr Cook remains an Affiliated Lecturer in the University of Cambridge.

Dr Cook was ordained deacon in the Catholic Church in 1978; is a member of the Society for Ordained Scientists; Chairman of the Ecumenical Commission (from 2005 Commission for Dialogue and Unity), Diocese of East Anglia; Member of the Standing Committee, former Chairman of Cambridgeshire Ecumenical Council; former Member of the Committee for Christian Unity, Catholic Bishops' Conference of England & Wales; Governor of Ipswich School, Ipswich, Suffolk; and LEA Governor (and Vice-Chairman 2003 - to date) of St Bede's Interchurch Comprehensive School, Cambridge.

Recent Publications

• Kuan, K. C-Y, Tannahill, D, Cook, G.M.W. & Keynes, R.J. (2004) Somite polarity and segmental patterning of the peripheral nervous system. Mech. Development 121,1055-1068.
• Vermeren, M.M., Cook, G.M.W., Johnson, A.R., Keynes,R.J. & Tannahill,D. (2000) Spinal nerve segmentation in the chick embryo: analysis of distinct axon-repulsive systems. Developmental Biology 225, 241- 252.
• Keynes, R.J., Tannahill,D., Morgenstein,D.A., Johnson,A.R., Cook, G.M.W. & Pini,A.(1997) A surround repulsion of spinal sensory sensory axons in higher vertebrate embryos. Neuron 18, 889-897.
• Keynes,R.J. & Cook, G.M.W. (1996) Axon guidance molecules. Cell 83,161-169.
• Cook,G.M.W. (1995) Glycobiology of the cell surface: The emergence of sugars as an important feature of the cell periphery. Glycobiology, 5, 449-458.

Professor Sir Martin Evans gained his BA in Biochemistry from Christ College, University of Cambridge in 1963.  He received an MA in 1966 and a ScD in 1996.  In 1969 he was awarded a PhD degree from University College, London. After many years working at Cambridge, Sir Martin became Professor of Mammalian Genetics at Cardiff University in 1999.

Professor Sir Martin was the first scientist to identify embryonic stem cells, which can be adapted for a wide variety of medical purposes. His discoveries are now being applied in virtually all areas of biomedicine – from basic research to the development of new therapies. In recent years Sir Martin himself has carried out pioneering work in using his techniques to develop therapy for cystic fibrosis in mice and for human breast cancer, among others.

Sir Martin has published more than 150 scientific papers. Among his many awards was the 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in the US – often seen as a precursor to a Nobel Prize. In 2004, he was knighted for his services to medical science. He was also named by The Independent newspaper as one of  “10 Britons who changed our world.” Sir Martin is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science.

In October 2007 Sir Martin was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine along with two US-based scientists, Professors Oliver Smithies and Mario Capecchi for “a series of ground-breaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and DNA recombination in mammals.” The citation from the Nobel Assembly said of their work: “Its impact on the understanding of gene function and its benefits to mankind will continue to increase over many years to come.”

Martin has recently become an Honorary Member of the Biochemical Society and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine in January 2009.

Prof. Hill Gaston read medicine at Lincoln College, Oxford and undertook general medical training in London and Bristol. Research training began in Bristol as a Cancer Research Campaign Fellow, and postdoctoral training at Stanford with a Medical Research Council travelling fellowship. He returned to the UK to the Department of Rheumatology in Birmingham where he was Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow and honorary consultant, before moving to Cambridge as the foundation Professor of Rheumatology. He is director of studies in Clinical Medicine at St. Edmund’s College, and takes an active role in research and education in rheumatology and immunology through the British Society for Rheumatology and the Arthritis Research Campaign

His research interests are in immunological mechanisms in rheumatic disease, and interactions between infection and the immune system. Prof. Gaston has an active research team of postdoctoral researchers and graduate students, working in cellular immunology, particularly T cell cloning (see www.med.cam.ac.uk). Prof Gaston is married to a local G.P. and has two children; leisure interests include music (listening, not making), reading (biographies), and travel. He is an active member and past churchwarden of a local Anglican church, Holy Trinity, Cambridge.

Recent Publications

• Jarvis, L.B., Matyzak, M.K., Duggleby, R.D., Goodall, J.C., Hall, F. C., and Gaston, J.S.H. Autoreactive human peripheral blood CD8+ T cells with a regulatory phenotype and function. Eur. J. Immunol. 35:2896-2908 (2005).
• Goodall, J.C., Ellis, L. and Gaston, J.S.H.. Spondyloarthritis-associated and non-spondyloarthritis associated B27 subtypes differ in their dependence upon tapasin for surface expression and their incorporation into the peptide loading complex. Arthritis and Rheumatism. In press. (2005)
• Matyszak, M.K. and Gaston, J.S.H. Chlamydia trachomatis-specific human CD8+ T cells show two patterns of antigen recognition. Infect. Immun. 72(8): 4357-67 (2004).
• Lillicrap, M.S., Duggleby, R.C., Gaston, J.S.H. and Goodall. J.C. T cell recognition of a highly conserved epitope in heat shock protein 60: self tolerance maintained by distinguishing between asparagine and aspartic acid. International Immunology 16:405-414 (2004).
• Cox, C.J., Kempsell, K.E. and Gaston, J.S.H. Investigation of infectious agents associated with arthritis by RT-PCR of bacterial rRNA. Arthritis Research and Therapy 5:R1-8.(2003).
• Gaston, J.S.H. Reactive arthritis and enteropathic arthropathy. Chapter in Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology, 3rd edition, eds. D.A. Isenberg, P. Maddison, P. Woo, D. Glass, and F. Breedveld. Oxford University Press , Pp779-786 (2004).
• Gaston, J.S.H. Reactive arthritis. Chapter in Oxford textbook of Medicine, 4th edition, eds. D.A. Warrell. T.M. Cox, Firth, J.D. and Benz, Jr, E.J, Oxford University Press. vol. 3 pp 57-61 (2004).
• Gaston, J.S.H. Cellular Immunity in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Chapter in Rheumatology, 3rd edition, eds. M.C. Hochberg, A.J. Silman, J.S. Smolen, M.E. Weinblatt, M.H. Weisman, Mosby-Harcourt. Pp 843-850 (2003).

Professor Sir Brian Heap is Vice-President of the European Academies Sciencce Advisory Council, chair of Trustee Boards of Academia Europaea, phg Foundation Cambridge, and the Cambridge Theological Foundation, co-Director of the Cambridge-Templeton Journalism Fellows programme, and formerly Master of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge and is President of the International Society of Science and Religion. As a biological scientist published extensively on endocrine physiology, reproductive biology and biotechnology, became Director of Research at the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (Cambridge and Edinburgh) and at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Swindon, and was Special Professor at the University of Nottingham. Formerly President of the Institute of Biology, UK Representative on the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, and UK Representative on the NATO Science Committee, Brussels, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society and held posts as Foreign Secretary, Vice-President, and editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B.  

With the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the Department of Health's Expert Group on Cloning, the President's Advisory Group on Biotechnology, and Parliamentary Select Committee he has been engaged in public issues of biotechnology, population growth, sustainability and science policy working with the World Health Organisation, the UK-China Forum and the European Commission. He was scientific consultant for several international pharmaceutical companies and is Special Adviser for ZyGEM Co Ltd, New Zeland.

Recent science-religion interests/publications

• HEAP R B (2001) Cloning: can we play God? In Genetic Engineering: Christ and the Cosmos Series XV pp.113-123 ed. Brenda Beamond
• HEAP BRIAN (2004) Pastoral implications of the new genetics. Partner and Paternoster, Carlisle, Cumbria
• HEAP, BRIAN & COMIM, FLAVIO (2005) Consumption and Happiness: Christian values and an approach towards Christianity Annual Conference on Sustainability, London

Selected recent publications

• HEAP R B (2004)  Man and the future environment European Review 12 273-292

• HEAP, BRIAN & COMIM, FLAVIO (2006)  Ethical demands and economic decisions  In: In Search of Common Values in the European Research Area  ed: Pieter J D Drenth, Ludger Honnefelder, Johannes J F Schroots and Beat Sitter-Liver  ALLEA Report Series 4 pp 61-78 Amsterdam

• HEAP R B (2006) NATO’s Science for Peace Programme  Science and Society in the Face of the New Security Threats pp.3-6, ed M Sharpe and A Agboluaje IOS Press Washington

• HEAP R B (2006)  Creating a sustainable future In: Human Nature pp.300-317 ed Malcolm Jeeves, The Royal Society of Edinburgh

• HEAP R B  (2007)  Higher education, scientific research and social change  In: Higher Education and National Development   Universities and societies in transition pp.265-278 ed David Bridges, Palmira Juceviciene, Robert Jucevicius, Terence McLaughlin and Jolante Stankeviciute, Routledge London and New York

• HEAP R B  (2008)  Whither universities?  In:  The University in the Market pp. 1-7 ed L Engwall and D Weaire, Portland Press London

• HEAP R B (2009)  In Need of an Ethic and Legal Framework to Secure InternationalCooperation  pp.171-174 In: The Role of Law and Ethics in the Globalized Economy  ed. Joseph Straus Springer Heidelberg       

   

Sir John Houghton is currently Honorary Scientist of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the Meteorological Office; Honorary Scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; a Trustee of the Shell Foundation; and Chairman of the John Ray Initiative. Previously Sir John was a Member of the UK Government Panel on Sustainable Development (1994-2000); Chairman, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (1992-98); Chairman or Co-Chairman, Scientific Assessment Working Group, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1988-2002); Director General (later Chief Executive), UK Meteorological Office (1983-91); Director Appleton, Science and Engineering Research Council (also Deputy Director, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), (1979-83); and Professor of Atmospheric Physics, Oxford University (1976-83). During the 1970’s Sir John was also Principal Investigator for Space Experiments on NASA Spacecraft.

Sir John has received numerous honours and awards, most recently the prestigious Japan Prize (2006), and amongst others, the Glazebrook Medal (Institute of Physics, 1990); the Bakerian Prize Lecture of the Royal Society, 1991; the Climate Institute Annual Award (1992); the Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal (1995); and has received Honorary Doctorates of Science from the Universities of Wales (1991), Stirling (1992),East Anglia (1993), Leeds (1995), Heriot-Watt (1996), Greenwich (1997), Glamorgan (1998), Reading (1999), Birmingham (2000), Gloucestershire (2001) and Hull (2002).

Publications on science and religion

• Does God Play Dice? 1988, Intervarsity Press
• Global Warming, the Complete Briefing, 1994, Lion Publishing (2nd edition 1997, Cambridge University Press; 3rd edition 2004, Cambridge University Press
• The search for God; can science help? 1995, Lion Publishing

Recent books/reports

• Physics of Atmospheres, 1977. 2nd edition 1986, 3rd edition 2002, Cambridge University Press.
• Climate Change, the IPCC Scientific Assessment, eds J.T. Houghton, G.J. Jenkins and J.J. Ephraums, 1990, Cambridge University Press
• Climate Change 1992, the Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment, eds J.T. Houghton, B.A. Callander and S.K. Varney, 1992, Cambridge University Press
• Climate Change 1994, Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and an Evaluaion of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios, eds J.T.Houghton, L.G.Meira Filho, J.Bruce, Hoesung Lee, B.A.Callander, E.Haites, N.Harris and K.Maskell, 1994, Cambridge University Press
• Climate Change 1995, the Science of Climate Change, eds J.T.Houghton, L.G.Meira Filho, B.A.Callander, N.Harris, A Kattenberg and K.Maskell, 1995, Cambridge University Press
• Climate Change 2001, The Scientific Basis, eds J.T.Houghton, Y. Ding, D.J.Griggs, M.Noguer, P.J.van der Linden, X.Dai, K.Maskell, C.A.Johnson, 2001 Cambridge University Press

Prof. Colin Humphreys is the Director of Research in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge; Professor of Experimental Physics, The Royal Institution; Professorial Fellow, Selwyn College, Cambridge; past-President, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining; Director, Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre on Advanced Materials, Cambridge; and Director of the Cambridge – Aixtron Centre for Gallium Nitride. Prof. Humphreys has received numerous honours and awards, most recently the Kelvin Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics (1999); award of an honorary D.Sc. from the University of Leicester (2001); the European Materials Gold Medal, Federation of European Materials Societies (2001); and the Robert Franklin Mehl Gold Medal, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, USA (2003). Prof. Humphreys is also very involved in the public understanding of science, having served as Selby Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (1997); as Fellow in the Public Understanding of Physics, Institute of Physics (1997-99); and as President of the Physics Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1998-99).

Prof. Humphreys publishes and lectures extensively in the field of science and religion, and has a particular interest in the application of scientific knowledge to the understanding of the historicity of the Biblical text.

Recent publications in science and religion

• Humphreys, C.J. - "The Star of Bethlehem - A Comet in 5 BC - and the date of the birth of Christ" Q.Jl. R. Astr. Soc., 32, 1991, 389-407.
• Humphreys, C.J. - "The Star of Bethlehem - A Comet in 5 BC - and the date of Christ's birth". Tyndale Bulletin, 43, 1992, 32-56
• Humphreys, C.J. and Waddington, W.G. - "The Jewish Calendar, a lunar eclipse and the date of Christ's Crucifixion", Tyndale Bulletin, 43, 1992, 331-351.
• Humphreys, C.J. - "The Star of Bethlehem", Science & Christian Belief, 1993, 5, 83-101.
• Humphreys, C.J. and White R.J. - "The eruption of Santorini and the date and historicity of Joseph". Science and Christian Belief, 7, 1995, 151-162
• Humphreys, C.J. - "The number of people in the Exodus from Egypt: decoding mathematically the very large numbers in Numbers I and XXVI", Vestus Tesatmentum XLVIII, 1998, 196-213.
• Humphreys, C.J. - "How Many People Were in the Exodus from Egypt?" Science & Christian Belief, 2000, 12, 17-34
• Humphreys, C.J. - "The numbers in the Exodus from Egypt: a further appraisal". Vetus Testamentum, 50, 2000, 323-328.
• Humphreys, C.J. - "How many thousands did Moses pilot across the Red Sea?" Manna, 69, 2000, 20-21.
• Humphreys, C.J. - "The Miracles of Exodus - A Scientist's Discovery of the Extraordinary Natural Causes Underlying the Biblical Stories", 362 pages, Harper San Francisco, USA, and Continuum, UK, 2003, hardback and 2004 paperback..

Selected recent science publications

• Graham, D.M., Soltani-Vala, S., Dawson, P., Godfrey, M.J., Smeeton, T.M., Barnard, J.S., Kappers, M.J., Humphreys, C.J., and Thrush, E.J. ‘Optical and microstructural studies of InGaN/GaN single quantum well structures’ J.Appl.Phys. 97, 2005, 103508
• Martinez C E, Stanton N M, Kent A J, Graham D M, Dawson P, Kappers, M.J., Humphreys, C.J. ‘Determination of relative internal quantum efficiency in InGaN/GaN quantum wells’ J. Appl. Phy. 98, 053509 (2005)
• Ofori, A.P., Rossouw, C.J., and Humphreys, C.J Determining the site occupancy of Ru in the L12 phase of a Ni-base superalloy using ALCHEMI’ Acta Materialia, 53, 2005, 97-110
• Oliver, R. A., Kappers, M.J., Humphreys, C.J. and Briggs, G.A.D, ‘Growth modes in heteroepitaxy of InGaN on GaN’ J. Appl. Phys. 97, 2005, 013707
• Robinson, J.W., Rice, J.H., Lee, K.H., Na, J.H., Taylor, R.A., Hasko, D.G., Oliver, R.A., Kappers, M.J., Humphreys, C.J. and Briggs, G.A.D. ‘Quantum-confined Stark effect in a single InGaN quantum dot under a lateral electric field’ Appl. Phys. Lett, 86, 2005, 213104
• Vickers, M.E., Kappers, M.J., Datta, R., McAleese, C., Rayment, F.D.R. and Humphreys, C.J. ‘In-plane imperfections in GaN studied by X-ray diffraction’ J. Phys. D. Appl. Phys., 38, 2005, A99-A104
• Campbell, L.C., Wilkinson, M.J., Manz, A., Camilleri, P. and Humphreys, C.J. ‘Electrophoretic manipulation of single DNA molecules in nanofabricated capillaries’ Lab Chip, 4, 2004, 225-229
• Kaestner ,B., Schönjahn, C. and Humphreys, C.J. ‘Mapping the potential within a nanometre undoped GaAs region using a scanning electron microscope’ Appl.Phys.Lett., 84, 2004, 2109-2111
• Rice, J.H., Robinson, J.W., Jarjour, A., Taylor, R.A., Oliver, R.A., Briggs, G.A.D., Kappers, M.J. and Humphreys, C.J ‘Temporal variation in photoluminescence from single InGaN quantum dots’ Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 2004, 4110-4112
• Taylor, R.A., Robinson, J.W., Rice, J.H., Jarjour A., Smith, J.D., Oliver, R.A., Briggs, G.A.D., Kappers, M.J., Humphreys, C.J., and Arakawa, Y. ‘Dynamics of single InGaN quantum dots’ Physica E, 21, 2004, 285-289

Prof. Alister McGrath read chemistry at Oxford University, before carrying out research in molecular biophysics at Oxford under the supervision of Professor George Radda, FRS, who went on to become the chief executive of the Medical Research Council. After studying theology at Oxford, he took up the Naden Studentship in Divinity at St John's College, Cambridge, which enabled him to begin serious study of Christian theology, including its interaction with the natural sciences. He went on to become Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University, and President of the Oxford Centre for Evangelism and Apologetics. His research interests focus on the relation of the natural sciences and the Christian faith, and he has published extensively in this field. His best-known book is Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life (2004). In 2006, Prof. McGrath accepted a Senior Research Fellowship at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, to enable him to concentrate on several major research projects, including the reformulation and renewal of natural theology, before accepting the newly-established Chair of Theology, Ministry and Education in the Department of Education and Professional Studies at King's College, London.

Prof. McGrath is a prolific author of books and some of his most recent publications relevant to science-theology interactions are listed below.

Selected Recent Publications

• The Foundations of Dialogue in Science and Religion (Blackwell, 1998)
• Thomas F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography (T&T Clark, 1999)
• A Scientific Theology (3 volumes, entitled Nature, Reality and Theory, published by T&T Clark, 2001-3).
• The Re-Enchantment of Nature (Hodder & Stoughton, 2002)
• The Science of God: An Introduction to Scientific Theology (T&T Clark, 2004)
• The Twilight of Atheism (Rider, 2004)
• Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life (Blackwell, 2004)
• The Order of Things: Explorations in Scientific Theology (Blackwell, 2006)
• Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution from the Sixteenth to the Twenty First Century (HarperOne, 2007)
• The Open Secret: A New Vision for Natural Theology (Blackwell, 2008)
• A Fine-Tuned Universe? Anthropic Phenomena and Natural Theology (Westminster John Knox, 2009)

Gerard Nienhuis has been Professor of Physics at Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands, since 1986. He is also a former professor at Universiteit Utrecht (until 1991), and has worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1970-1971), and at the Université Paris-Nord (a number of brief visiting professorships). He has been a member of the Board of the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society (1994-2004), and a co-editor of European Physics Letters (1998-2003). His field of research is in atomic and optical physics, with an emphasis on quantum optics and quantum effects of the interaction between light and matter.

Recent Publications in Science and Religion

• Het Gezicht van de Wereld, Amsterdam, Buijten & Schipperheijn, 1995.
• Geloof in het Toeval, De Gids 159, 152, 1996.
• Het geloof zoekt, de wetenschap vindt, Radix 29, 182, 2003.
• Toeval en ontwerp, twee vreemde eenden, in En God Beschikte een Worm, red. C. Dekker, R. Meester en R. van Woudenberg, Kampen, Ten Have, 2006.

Recent Scientific Publications

• J. Visser, E.R. Eliel and G. Nienhuis, “Polarization entanglement in a crystal with threefold symmetry”, Phys. Rev. A 66, 0033814, 2002.
• A.V. Taichenachev, A.M. Tumaikin, V.I. Yudin and G. Nienhuis, “Steady state of atoms in a resonant field with elliptical polarization”, Phys. Rev. A 69 033410, 2004.
• H.L. Haroutyunyan and G. Nienhuis, “Phase dynamics of a multimode Bose condensate controlled by decay” Phys. Rev. A 69, 053621, 2004.
• J. Visser and G. Nienhuis, “Orbital angular momentum of general astigmatic modes”, Phys. Rev. A 70, 013809, 2004.
• S.S.R Oemrawsingh, A. Aiello, E.R. Eliel, G. Nienhuis and J.P. Woerdman, “How to observe high-dimensional two-photon entanglement with only two detectors”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 217901, 2004.
• J. Visser, N.J. Zelders and G. Nienhuis, “Wave description of geometric modes of a resonator”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22, 1559, 2005.

The Reverend Dr. John Polkinghorne worked in theoretical elementary particle physics for 25 years and was Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University, 1968-79. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974. In 1979 Polkinghorne resigned his chair to study for the Anglican priesthood. He was ordained in 1982. After some years in parish life he returned to Cambridge to work on issues in science and theology, a topic on which he has written many books, including his Gifford Lectures, Science and Christian Belief (in the USA, The Faith of a Physicist), his Terry Lectures, Belief in God in an Age of Science, and more recently, The God of Hope and the End of the World. In 1996 he retired from being President of Queens' College, Cambridge, and he was knighted in 1997. He has Hon DDs from the Universities of Kent (1994) and Durham (1999) and Hon DScs from the Universities of Exeter (1994) Leicester (1995) and Marquette (2003). He is an Hon Fellow of St Chad's College, Durham (1999) and of St Edmund's College, Cambridge (2002). In the United Kingdom, Polkinghorne has been the Chairman of several Committees offering advice to Government on ethical and social issues related to new developments in science and technology, for example Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing (1996-1999). In 2002 he was awarded the Templeton Prize. John Polkinghorne was one of the founders of the Society of Ordained Scientists and was the Founding President of the International Society for Science and Religion (2002-2004).

Recent selected publications on science and religion

• Science and Providence (SPCK, 1989) - re-published by Templeton Foundation Press 2005.
• Reason and Reality (SPCK, 1991)
• Science and Christian Belief (SPCK, 1994) In the US - The Faith of a Physicist (Princeton University Press, 1994)
• Quarks, Chaos and Christianity (Triangle, 1994)
• Beyond Science (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
• Belief in God in an Age of Science (Yale University Press, 1998)
• Science & Theology (SPCK, 1998)
• Traffic in Truth - Exchanges between Theology and Science (Canterbury Press 2000; Fortress, 2002)
• Faith, Science, and Understanding (SPCK/Yale University Press, 2000)
• The God of Hope and the End of the World (SPCK/Yale University Press 2002)
• Science and the Trinity (SPCK/Yale University Press 2004)
• Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science & Religion (SPCK/Yale University Press 2005).

Recent selected scientific publications

• The Quantum World (Longman 1984; Princeton University Press, 1985; Pelican Books, 1986; Penguin Books, 1990; Czech, Greek, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese translations).
• Quantum Theory - a very short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2002; Arabic, Czech, Dutch, German and Serbocroat translations)

Eric Priest has been a professor of Theoretical Solar Physics in the Mathematics Department at St. Andrew’s University since 1983. He was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1985), the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters (1994) and the Royal Society (2002). He is currently Vice-President of the Royal Astronomical Society and has been awarded the James Arthur Prize (Harvard), the Hale Prize (American Astronomical Society), the Rosseland Lectureship (Oslo) and the Robinson Medal.

As an applied mathematician, his research interests involve constructing mathematical models for the subtle and complex ways in which magnetic fields interact with plasmas in the atmosphere of the Sun and in more exotic cosmic objects. In particular, he is trying to understand how the corona of the Sun is heated to several million degrees and how magnetic energy is converted into other forms in solar flares.

In the area of science and religion, he is aware of the importance of trying in small ways to encourage dialogue and understanding between islam and christianity and recently spoke on science and culture to 850 schoolchildren in Alexandria, Egypt. He has also preached in St Andrews on the tensions between christianity and science and spoke on “Creativity in Science” at a conference on Creativity and the Imagination.

He is active in the local anglican church and enjoys hill-walking, bridge, singing in a couple of choirs and spending time with his wife Clare and four children.

Recent Selected Publications

• Priest, E.R. (2006) ‘Our enigmatic Sun’, Recent Advances in Astronomy and Astrophysics (ed N. Solomos) American Institute of Physics, Melville USA.
• Priest, E.R. (2006) ‘Creativity in science’, Proc. Conf. on Creativity and Imagination (ed. T Hart)
• Priest, E.R. and Forbes, T.G. (2002) ‘The magnetic nature of solar flares’, Astron. and Astrophys. Rev. 10, 313-377
• Priest, E.R., Heyvaerts, J.F. and Title, A.M. (2002) ‘A Flux Tube Tectonics Model for solar coronal heating driven by the magnetic carpet’, Astrophys. J., 576, 533-551
• Priest, E.R. and Forbes, T.G. (2000) Magnetic Reconnection: MHD Theory and Applications, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Priest, E.R. (1982) Solar Magnetohydrodynamics, D Reidel, Holland

Prof. Roger Trigg is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Warwick, and Senior Research Fellow in the Ian Ramsey Centre, Oxford, and co-director of a major interdisciplinary project in Oxford on the cognitive science of religion. He is also Academic Director of the new Centre for Religion in Public Life in the University of Oxford (based in Kellogg College).

He was Founding Chairman of the British Philosophical Association, representing all British Philosophy, including individuals and learned societies (2003-4); previously Chairman of the National Committee for Philosophy (1998-2003); Founding President, British Society for the Philosophy of Religion (1993-6), now a Vice-President; President, Mind Association (1997-8); Member of Executive Committee and Council, Royal Institute of Philosophy, (1991-). Amongst many examination duties, Prof. Trigg was External Examiner for the Philosophy Tripos, Part II, University of Cambridge (2001- 4).

Prof. Trigg has a particular interest in the relationship between science and religion, and is joint editor of the Ashgate series of monographs in the subject, and is a Member of the International Society for Science and Religion. Prof. Trigg is also editor with Professor Wentzel van Huyssteen (of Princeton) of the new international Ashgate Series of monographs on Science and Religion.

Selected Recent Publications

• Understanding Social Science, Basil Blackwell, Oxford and New York, (hardback and paperback), 1985, reprinted 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999Romanian edition 1996, second edition with three new chapters, 2000 Turkish edition forthcoming.
• Ideas of Human Nature, Basil Blackwell, Oxford and New York 1988, hardback and paperback, reprinted 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994 (twice), 1996, 1997 Korean edition, 1996, reprinted 1997second edition with three new chapters 1999, reprinted 2000 2001, 2002, 2003 Spanish edition (of Second Edition) 2001 Persian edition (of Second Edition) 2003.
• Rationality and Science: Can Science Explain Everything? Basil Blackwell 1993, (hardback and paperback), Oxford and Cambridge, Mass. reprinted 1994, 1998. Korean edition forthcoming.
• Rationality and Religion, Does Faith Need Reason? Blackwell (hardback and paperback), Oxford, 1998, reprinted 1999. Portuguese edition 2002.
• Philosophy Matters, (hardback and paperback) 2002, Blackwell, Oxford.
• Morality Matters, (Hardback and paperback), 2004, Blackwell, Oxford
• Religion in Public Life: Must Faith Be Privatized?, 2007, Oxford U.P.