The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Dr Denis Alexander is the Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, where he is a Fellow. Dr Alexander was previously Chairman of the Molecular Immunology Programme and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge. Prior to that Dr Alexander was at the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories in London (now Cancer Research UK), and spent 15 years developing university departments and laboratories overseas, latterly as Associate Professor of Biochemistry in the Medical Faculty of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, where he helped to establish the National Unit of Human Genetics. Dr Alexander was initially an Open Scholar at Oxford reading Biochemistry, before obtaining a PhD in Neurochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry in London.

Dr Alexander writes, lectures and broadcasts widely in the field of science and religion. Since 1992 he has been Editor of the journal Science & Christian Belief, and currently serves on the National Committee of Christians in Science and as a member of the International Society for Science and Religion.

Recent selected publications in science and religion

• Alexander, D. R. (2001) 'Rebuilding the Matrix - Science and Faith in the 21st Century', Oxford: Lion Publishing, hb 512 pp. pb edn 2002. US hb edn 2003; French edn 2004.
• Alexander, D.R. and White R.S. (2004) 'Beyond Belief - Science, Faith and Ethical Challenges' Oxford: Lion Publishing.
• Alexander D.R. (2004) 'Science, Faith and Human Values' in D. Lorimer (ed) 'Science, Consciousness and Ultimate Reality', Exeter: Imprint Academic.
• Alexander, D.R. (Ed + Chapter). (2005) 'Can We Know Anything? Science, Faith and Postmodernity', Leicester: Apollos.
• Alexander, D.R. (2008) 'Evolutionary biology and the purposes of God' in B. Nicolescu and M. Stavinschi (eds) Transdisciplinary Approaches in the Dialogue Between Science, Art, and Religion, Bucharest: Curtea Veche.
• Alexander, D.R. (2008) 'Science and religion – negotiating the 21st century rapids', in A. Bentley (ed) The Edge of Reason, London: Continuum.
• Alexander, D.R. (2008) 'Art, Science and Flatland', chapter in Cryptosphere, accompanying sculpture exhibition by Simeon Nelson at the Royal Geographical Society, London: Parabola.
• Alexander, D.R. (2008) 'Creation or Evolution - Do We Have to Choose?', Oxford: Monarch.
• Alexander, D.R.and Numbers, R.L. (eds) (2010) 'Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins' University of Chicago Press.

Recent selected science publications

• Ogilvy, S., Louis-Dit-Sully, C., Cassady, R.L., Alexander, D.R. and Holmes, N. (2003) J.Immunol. 171:1792-1800. 'Either of the CD45RB and CD45R0 isoforms are effective in restoring T cell, but not B cell, development and function in CD45-null mice'.
• Turner S.D., Tooze R., Maclennan K, and Alexander D.R. (2003) Oncogene 22: 7750-61 'Vav-promoter regulated oncogenic fusion protein NPM-ALK in transgenic mice causes B-cell lymphomas with hyperactive Jun Kinase'.
• Zhao, R., Yang, F.-T., and Alexander, D.R. (2004). Cancer Cell, 5: 37-49. 'An oncogenic tyrosine kinase inhibits DNA repair and DNA damage-induced Bcl-xL deamidation in T cell transformation'.
• Alexander, D.R. (2004) Cell Cycle 3: 584-7 'Oncogenic tyrosine kinases, DNA repair and survival'.
• Alexander, D.R. (2005) 'Biological validation of the CD45 tyrosine phosphatase as a pharmaceutical target” in L.A.Pinna and P.W.Cohen (eds) ‘Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology', Springer.
• Turner, S.D. and Alexander, D.R. (2005) Leukaemia 7: 1128-1134. 'What have we learnt from mouse models of NPM-ALK induced lymphomagenesis?'
• Elliott, J.I., Surprenant, A., Marelli-Berg, F.M., Cooper, J.C., Cassady-Cain, R.L., Wooding, C., Linton, K., Alexander, D.R. and Higgins, C.F. (2005). Nat. Cell. Biol. 7: 808-816. 'Membrane phosphatidylserine distribution as a non-apoptotic signaling mechanism in lymphocytes'.
• Salmond, R.J., Huyer, G., Kotsoni, A., Clements, L. and Alexander, D.R. (2005) J. Immunol. 2005, 175: 6498-6508. 'The src Homology 2 Domain-Containing Tyrosine Phosphatase 2 Regulates Primary T-Dependent Immune Responses and Th Cell Differentiation'.
• Turner S.D. and Alexander, D.R. (2006). Leukemia 20: 572-82. 'Fusion Tyrosine Kinase Mediated Signalling Pathways in the Transformation of Haematopoietic Cells'.
• Zhao,, R., Oxley, D., Smith, T.S., Follows, G.A., Green, A.R. and Alexander, D.R. (2007) Plos Biology, doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050001. 'DNA Damage-induced Bcl-xL Deamidation is Mediated by NHE-1 Antiport Regulated Intracellular pH'.
• McNeill, L. Salmond, R.J. Cooper, J.C., Carret, C.K., Cassady-Cain, R.L., Roche-Molina, M., Tandon, P., Holmes, N. and Alexander, D.R. (2007) Immunity 27: 425-437. 'The differential regulation by CD45 of Lck kinase phosphorylation sites is critical for TCR signalling thresholds'.
• Rider, D.A., Havenith, C.E.G., de Ridder, R., Schuurman, J., Favre, C., Cooper, J.C., Walker, S., Baadsgaard, O., Marschner, S., van de Winkel, J.G.J., Cambier, J., Parren, P.W.H.I. and Alexander, D.R. (2007) Cancer Res. 67: 9945-9953. 'A human CD4 monoclonal antibody for the treatment of T cell lymphoma combines inhibition of T cell signaling by a dual mechanism with potent Fc-dependent effector activity'.
• Zhao, R., Follows, G.A., Beer, P.A., Scott, L.M., Huntly, B.J.P, Green, A.R. and Alexander, D.R. (2008). New England J. Medicine, 359: 2778-2789. 'Inhibition of the Bcl-xL deamidation pathway in myeloproliferative disorders'.

Having graduated in 1992 in Astrophysics from the University of Leicester, Dave Allard is currently Head of Science at Rawlins Community College in Quorn, Leicestershire. He has led a number of sessions on various aspects of Science and Religion in schools both to groups of teachers and to students. Dave was involved in the early pilot of Perspectives on Science, which has since been absorbed into the Extended Project, which he still delivers to post-16 students in after school sessions.

As well as the day job, Mr Allard is a team leader/moderator for the Extended Project and also delivers regular training around the country on the Level 3 Extended Project.

Prof. Dame Ingrid Allen is Professor Emeritus of Neuropathology at Queen’s University, Belfast, and honorary consultant to the NHS Belfast Trust. She works with the Molecular Virology Group at Queen's on Paramyxoviruses and also does research on Multiple Sclerosis. She has also been a Visiting Professor at University of Ulster. From 1997 to 2001 was the Director of Research and Development for Health and Personal Social Services Northern Ireland. She was also a previous member of the IRTU Board, Medical Research Council and HEFCE Joint Medical Advisory Committee.

She has served as the Chair of Medical Advisory Panel of the Parkinson’s Disease Society and is a member of the board of the Association of Medical Research Charities, London. She is also a member of the European Committee on MS Research of the MS Society. She was the first head of the Regional Neuropathology Service for Northern Ireland.

Professor Allen is an elder in McCracken Memorial Presbyterian Church and converner of the Outreach Committee there. She is a member of Christians in Science, the Society of Ordained Scientists and the Thomas Merton Society.

Prof. Gennaro Auletta is Aggregate Professor in the Gregorian University, Researcher in the Cassino University, and Scienti c Director of the STOQ Project. He is also visiting professor in the University of Notre Dame, associate of the Faraday Institute of the Cambridge University, and member of the Linnean Society of London. After taking his degree in philosophy at La Sapienza University in Rome he took his Ph.D and his Postdoc in Philosophy at the same university. He is married to Mathilde Anquetil and has two children: Leo and Margot.

His philosophical interests are logic, philosophy of nature (with special connections with quantum mechanics and biology), philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. In science, his main interests are in quantum mechanics (quantum information, foundations, interpretation). For the last ten years his research interests have addressed issues in the treatment of information by biological systems (from bacteria to human brain), in cognitive neurosciences.

Recent Selected Scientific Publications

• Auletta, Gennaro (2000), Foundations and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: In the Light of a Critical-Historical Analysis of the Problems and of a Synthesis of the Results, Singapore, World Scientific.
• Auletta, Gennaro (2000), An Outline of an Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, in Garola, C. and Rossi, A. (Eds.), The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Historical Analysis and Open Questions, Singapore, World Scienti c: 31-49.
• Auletta, Gennaro (2002), Is Representation Characterized by Intrinsicity and Causality?, Intellectica 35: 83-113.
• Auletta, Gennaro (2003), Some Lessons of Quantum Mechanics for Cognitive Science, Intellectica 36-37: 293-317.
• Auletta, Gennaro (2003), Language, Sign, and Representation: An Answer to Stewart, Laurent, Reboul, and Palma, Intellectica 36-37: 401-417 (the whole debate pp. 381-417).
• Auletta, Gennaro (2005), Quantum Information and Inferential Reasoning, Foundations of Physics 35:155-69.
• Auletta, Gennaro (2005), Quantum Information as a General Paradigm, Foundations of Physics 35:787-815.
• Auletta, Gennaro (2006), The Ontology Suggested by Quantum Mechanics, in Valore, Paolo (Ed.), Topics on General and Formal Ontology, Monza, Polimetrica International Scienti c Publisher: 161-79.
• Auletta, Gennaro (2007), Information, Semiotics, and Symbolic Systems, Semiotica 166: 359-76.
• Auletta, G., Ellis, G., and Jaeger, L. (2008), Top-Down Causation by Information Control: From a Philosophical Problem to a Scienti c Research Program, Journal of the Royal Society: Interface 5:1159-72.
• Auletta, G., Fortunato, M., and Parisi, G. (2009), Quantum Mechanics: A Modern Perspective, Cambridge, University Press.
• Auletta, G. (2010), A Paradigm Shift in Biology?, Information 1:28-59
• Auletta, G. and Torcal, L. (2011), From Wave-Particle to Features-Event Complementarity, International Journal of Modern Physics.

Selected Science-Religion Publications

• Auletta, Gennaro (Ed.) (2006), The Controversial Relations Between Science and Philosophy: A Critical Assessment, Vatican City, Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
• Auletta, Gennaro (2007), Science, Philosophy, and Religion Today: Some Reflections, Theology and Science 5 (2007): 267-87.
• Auletta, Gennaro (Ed.) (2008), The Controversial Relations Between Science and Philosophy: New Opportunities for a Fruitful Dialogue, Vatican City, Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

For a full list of publications, see www.gennaroauletta.net

Ruth is a research associate at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, working on the positive interaction of science and faith, and 'Test of Faith' resources project. After reading Genetics at Aberdeen University, she completed a PhD at Edinburgh University, based at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, working on gene-environment interactions during verterbrate development. After two years of postdoctoral research at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology , Edinburgh University, she worked as the Development Officer for Christians in Science for three years, before moving full-time to the Faraday Institute.

Ruth's Blog: scienceandbelief.wordpress.com/

Recent Publications in science and religion

• Bancewicz, R. (Ed). (2009) 'Test of Faith: Spiritual Journeys with Scientists', Milton Keynes: Paternoster, pb 144 pp.

Science Publications

• Yeyati PL, Bancewicz RM, Maule J, van Heyningen V. PLoS Genetics 2007 Mar 30;3(3):e43. Epub 2007 Feb 8. “Hsp90 selectively modulates phenotype in vertebrate development”.
• D Kleinjan*, RM Bancewicz.*, et al. Subfunctionalisation of duplicated zebrafish pax6 genes by cis-regulatory divergence. PLoS Genetics 2008 Feb;4(2):e29.(*These authors contributed equally to this work).

 

The Revd Dr Michael Banner is Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge. From 2004-2006 he was Director of the UK Economic and Social Research Council's Genomics Research Forum and Professor of Public Policy and Ethics in the Life Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. He is very well known in science and public policy arenas and has been Chairman of the Home Office Animal Procedures Committee since 1998.

Dr Banner read Philosophy and Theology at Balliol College, Oxford (MA 1985, DPhil 1986). Earlier appointmnets have included Bampton Research Fellow, St Peter's College, Oxford; Dean, Chaplain, Fellow and Director of Studies in Philosophy and Theology, Peterhouse, Cambridge; and FD Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology, King's College, London. He has been chairman of HM Government Committee of Enquiry on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies in Breeding Farm Animals and the CJD Incidents Panel, Department of Health. He has also been a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission and (still) the Human Tissue Authority.

Recent selected publications

• The Justification of Science and The Rationality of Religious Belief (Oxford University Press, 1992)
• The Practice of Abortion: A Critique (Darton, Longman and Todd, 1999)
• Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
• The Doctrine of God and Theological Ethics, ed. Michael Banner and Alan Torrance (Continuum, 2006)

Dr Roger A. Barker is a University Reader in Clinical Neuroscience and Honorary Consultant in Neurology at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital. He trained at the University of Oxford and the University of London and has held his current position since 2000, having completed an Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist Fellowship just prior to this. His main interests are in the neurodegenerative disorders of the nervous system in particular Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease. He combines basic research looking at cell therapies to treat these conditions with clinically based work on defining the natural history and heterogeneity of both Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. He is a member of Parkinson's Disease Research Advisory Panel, the Medical Research Council Stem cell Liaison Committee and is co-editor in chief of the journals ACNR and the Journal of Neurology.

Justin L. Barrett earned degrees in psychology from Calvin College (B.A.) and Cornell University (Ph.D). He served on the psychology faculties of Calvin College and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and as a research fellow of the Institute for Social Research. Dr. Barrett is a founding editor of the Journal of Cognition and Culture and is author of numerous articles and chapters concerning cognitive science of religion. His book Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (AltaMira, 2004) presents a scientific account for the prevalence of religious beliefs; more recently he has published Cognitive Science, Religion and Theology (John Templeton Press 2011) which critically reviews current research on these issues. He is currently Senior Researcher at Oxford's Centre for Anthropology and Mind in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. Dr. Barrett lives in Oxford with his wife Sherry Barrett and his son Skylar and daughter Sierra.

John D. Barrow FRS is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, a programme to improve the teaching, learning and appreciation of mathematics and it applications. He is also the current Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. His research interests are in cosmology, gravitation physics and the interface between particle physics and astronomy.

He has received many awards, including the 2006 Templeton Prize, the Royal Society's 2008 Faraday Prize and the 2009 Kelvin Medal of the Institute of Physics. He has written more than 450 scientific papers, and 20 books, translated into 28 languages, together with many popular science articles. The most recent of these are Cosmic Imagery and 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know and the next title, The Book of Universes, will appear in early 2011. His play, Infinities, won the Italian Premi Ubu for best play in the Italian theatre in 2002, and the 2003 Italgas Prize.

David Bartholomew is Professor of Statistics (Emeritus) of the London School of Economics.  He originally studied at University College London, then worked as a scientist for the National Coal Board before becoming a lecturer in statistics at the University of Keele in 1957.  He became a Senior Lecturer at Aberystwyth in 1960, then Professor of Statistics at the University of Kent in 1967.  He moved to the London School of Economics in 1973.  He was president of the Royal Statistical Society 1993 - 1995, and chairman of the Science and Religion Forum 1997 - 2000.

Richard Bauckham, M.A., Ph.D., F.B.A., F.R.S.E., was until recently Professor of New Testament Studies and Bishop Wardlaw Professor in the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He was born in London in 1946, and studied at the University of Cambridge, where he read history at Clare College (1966-72) and was a Fellow of St John's College (1972-75). He taught theology for one year at the University of Leeds, and for fifteen years at the University of Manchester (1977-1992), where he was Lecturer, then Reader in the History of Christian Thought, before moving to St Andrews in 1992. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He retired from his chair at St. Andrew's in 2007 order to concentrate on research and writing.

His current research interests include Jesus and the Gospels, New Testament Christology, and the relevance of the Bible to ecological issues. He gave the Sarum lectures for 2006, now published as 'The Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of Creation'.  

Recent publications

• God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament (Eerdmans, 1998).
• (with Trevor Hart) Hope against Hope: Christian Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium (Darton, Longman & Todd, 1999).
• James: Wisdom of James, Disciple of Jesus the Sage (Routledge,1999).
• God and the Crisis of Freedom: Biblical and Contemporary Perspectives (Westminster/John Knox Press, US, 2002).
• Gospel Women: Studies of the Named Women in the Gospels (Eerdmans, 2002)
• Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World (Paternoster, 2003).
• Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Eerdmans, 2006).
• The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple: Narrative, History, and Theology in the Gospel of John (Baker Academic, 2007).
• Jesus and the God of Israel (2008).
• The Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of Creation (Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd. 2010)

Professor Richard Bell has doctorates in theoretical Physics (University College London) and Theology (Tübingen) and has been teaching at the University of Nottingham since 1990. The main focus of his research is the New Testament, especially the theology of Paul. He has written four books for the series ‘Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament’ (Mohr Siebeck): Provoked to Jealousy, 1994; No one seeks for God, 1998; The Irrevocable Call of God, 2005; Deliver us from Evil, 2007. Currently he is working on a ‘theology of mind’ where he brings his various interests (e.g. New Testament, Quantum Theory, myth) and is writing a book on the theology of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal.  

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.)

Dr Billingsley is a lecturer in science education at the Institute of Education, University of Reading. She is also the principal investigator for the LASAR (Learning about Science and Religion Project). The LASAR Project is a collaborative project for the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion involving researchers from the University of Reading’s Institute of Education (Dr Berry Billingsley, Helen Newdick) and the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education (Dr Keith S Taber). Our Associate researcher is Fran Riga. The project consists of a research project looking at pupils' and teachers' thinking about science and religion in secondary schools and also a project to develop online resources for schools. The project is funded by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Details about recent findings can be found at www.lasarproject.com.

Dr Billingsley's longstanding interest in the teaching and learning of science and religion was first consolidated through her PhD research looking at Australian undergraduates' approaches to the apparent contradictions between science and religion.  As an Oxford University Physics graduate, Dr Billingsley's career began with the BBC where she produced and presented television and radio programmes including BBC World Service's 'Science in Action', BBC TV's 'Tomorrow’s World' and BBC Education's 'Search out Science'.  She then travelled to Melbourne, Australia, to become a senior project manager with the Department of Education. In this role she produced television and online resources including the ATOM award winning website, goamazing.com, to support science teaching in schools.

Stephen Blundell is currently Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at Oxford University and Tutor at Mansfield College. He was an undergraduate at Cambridge University and studied for his Ph.D. at the Cavendish Laboratories before moving to Oxford in 1993, first as an EPSRC research fellow, then as a Merton College Junior Research Fellow, before taking up a university lectureship in 1997. He was a co-recipient of the Daiwa-Adrian prize in 1999. Prof. Blundell’s current research interests include the properties of correlated electrons in the solid state, particularly magnetism and superconductivity in organic systems and complex oxides, the use of high magnetic fields to probe Fermi surfaces, and muon-spin rotation to measure internal magnetic field distributions and dynamics.

Prof. Blundell is a member of Christians in Science and an occasional speaker on science/faith issues.

Selected recent research papers

• Blundell, Stephen (2001) Magnetism in Condensed Matter Oxford University Press.
• Hayward, M. A., Cussen, E. J., Claridge, J. B., Bieringer, M., Rosseinsky, M. J., Kiely, C. J., Blundell, S. J., Marshall, I. M. and Pratt, F. L. (2002) The hydride anion in an extended transition metal oxide array - LaSrCoO3H0.7 Science 295, 1882.
• Coldea, I., Blundell, S. J., Steer, C. A., Mitchell, J. F. and Pratt, F. L. (2002) Spin freezing and magnetic inhomogeneities in bilayer manganites Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 277601.
• Blundell, S. J., Steer, C. A., Pratt, F. L., Marshall, I. M., Hayes W., and Ward, R. C. C. (2003) Detection of magnetic order in the S=1 chain LiVGe2O6 using implanted spin-polarized muons Phys. Rev. B 67, 224411.
• Blundell, S. J. (2004) Muon-spin rotation studies of electronic properties of molecular conductors and superconductors Chem. Rev. 104, 5717.
• Blundell, S. J. and Pratt, F. L. (2004) Organic and molecular magnets J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 16, R771.
• Goddard, P. A., Blundell, S. J., Singleton, J., McDonald, R. D., Ardavan, A., Narduzzo, A., Schleuter, J. A., Kini, A. M. and Sasaki, T. (2004) Angle-dependent magnetoresistance of the layered organic superconductor kappa-(ET)2Cu(NCS)2: Simulation and experiment Phys. Rev. B 69, 174509.
• Analytis, J. G., Blundell S. J. and Ardavan, A. (2004) Landau levels, molecular orbitals, and the Hofstadter butterfly in finite systems Am. J. Phys. 72, 613.

Prof. Katherine Blundell is professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University, where she is also a University Research Fellow of the Royal Society and a Science Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Previously she was a Research Fellow of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and before that she was a Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford.

In 2010 she won the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award.  This is awarded annually and is funded by the government as part of its efforts to promote women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

Prof. Jan J. Boersema (1947) received his academic training as a biologist, majoring ethology, at the University of Groningen and lectured on biology and environmental sciences at the same University. He graduated in theology with a thesis titled: The Torah and the Stoics on Mankind and Nature (English edition published with Brill, Leiden, 2001). In 1994 he became Reader in Environmental Science and Philosophy at Leiden University and at the same time Secretary General of the Council for the Environment at the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment. At this ministry he became a cofounder and member of Forum a think-tank operating from 1999 - 2002. In 2002 he was appointed as special professor, and in 2005 as full professor, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam where he is based in two institutes: Blaise Pascal Institute (Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Science, Society and Religion) and IVM (Institute for Environmental Studies) His inaugural lecture entitled Hoe Groen is het Goede Leven (How Green is the Good Life) in which he developed a new theory on the ecological history of Easter Island was held in October 2002. His current research is focused on the relation between sustainability, nature, culture, worldviews and religion, with the working title “How Green is Progress? His publications cover a wide range of subjects in the environmental field. In 2003 he became Editor in Chief of Environmental Sciences.

In 2009 - 2010 he was a visiting fellow at St Edmund's College.  During that time he was interviewed by Radio Cambridgeshire - his interview is available here.

Recent Publications

• Jan J. Boersema (2001) The Torah and the Stoics on Humankind and Nature. A Contribution to the Debate on Sustainability and Quality. E.J. Brill, Leiden
• J.J. Boersema (2002) Why is Francis of Assisi the patron saint of ecologists? Science & Christian Belief, 14/1, 51-78
• Hoogland, C. T., de Boer, J., & Boersema, J. J. (2004). Meat's animal origin; reminding consumers and bridging the value - behaviour gap. In: J. De Tavernier & S. Aerts (Eds.), Science, ethics & society. 5th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (pp. 279-282). Leuven, Be: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Agricultural Bio- and Environmental Ethics.
• Jan Boersema, Andrew Blowers & Adrian Martin (2007) Biofuels and perverse subsidies: fuelling the wrong solutions? Environmental Sciences 4 (4): 195-198.
• Andrew Blowers, Jan Boersema & Adrian Martin (2008) Why environmental policy needs a local perspective. Environmental Sciences 5 (3): 145-151
• Jan J. Boersema (2008) How Green is Progress? The Need for Science and Religion in Sustaining Biodiversity. Chapter 10 in: W.B. Drees, H. Meisinger and T.A. Smedes(eds.) Creation’s Diversity: Voices from Theology and Science. T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 133-155.
• Jan Boersema, Andrew Blowers & Adrian Martin (2008) The Religion-Environment Connection Environmental Sciences 5 (4): 217-221.
• Jan J. Boersema & Lucas Reijnders (Eds.) (2009) Principles of Environmental Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht/Boston MA. (ISBN 978-1-4020-9157-5).

Revd Dave Bookless is Advisor for Theology and Churches for A Rocha International (www.arocha.org). A Rocha is an international Christian organisation engaging in scientific research, environmental education and community-based conservation projects across six continents. He is also studying for a part-time PhD under Professor David Ford in the Divinity Faculty at Cambridge University, exploring a theological understanding of biodiversity conservation.

Rev Bookless was born in India and his first degree was in Modern History (1983) at Jesus College Cambridge (specialising in Gandhian politics). He stayed in Cambridge to complete a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education, specialising in multifaith Religious Education, before becoming Lecturer in Christianity as a World Religion for Bradford’s Interfaith Education Centre. In 1988 he left to train for ordination at Trinity College, Bristol, where he completed a Dip. HE in Theology and an MA in Church, Religion and Society 1780-1914. He was ordained in 1991 and served as curate at St John's Southall, before moving to be Priest-in-Charge of St George's Southall, where he remained until 2000. In 2001 he left parish ministry to set-up A Rocha UK. He was National Director until 2008 before focusing on writing and theological education, and in 2011 moved to his current role with A Rocha International. During his time with A Rocha UK, the Rev Bookless served on various bodies including the Church of England's Mission and Public Affairs Council and its 'Shrinking the Footprint' steering group, and as Moderator of the Environmental Issues Network of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. His academic interests include a theology of place; the interface between theology, economics and ecological sustainability; and the implications of biblical environmentalism for missiology and ecclesiology.

Selected Recent Science and Religion Publications:

• Bookless, D. J .C. (2010), Environment and Leadership, in Ande, Titre (ed.) International Study Guide 43: A Guide to Leadership, London: SPCK
• Bookless, Dave (2010), God Doesn't do Waste: Redeeming the Whole of Life, Nottingham: IVP
• Bookless, David (2009), A Famine of Hope: Christian Mission and the search for a Sustainable Future, in Raj, Paul Mohan (ed.) Mission Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Bangalore: Theological Book Trust.
• Bookless, Dave (2008), Planetwise: Dare to Care for God's World, Nottingham: IVP
• Bookless, D. J. C. (2008), The Fifth Mark of Mission-Ecological Concern from a Praxis Perspective in Walls, Prof. A & Ross, Dr. C. Mission in the Twenty-first Century, London: Darton Longman and Todd
• Bookless, D. J. C. (2008), 'The Land is Mine' says the Lord-Practical ways Christian mission can address environmental justice, Mission Studies 25:1-16
• Bookless, Dave (2008), Introduction for The Green Bible, London: Harper Collins
• Bookless, D. J. C. (2007), Towards a Theology of Sustainability in Berry, Prof. R. J. (ed.) When Enough is Enough-A Christian Framework for Environmental Sustainability, Nottingham: Apollos
• Bookless, Dave & Larkin, Dr. Lucy (2006), Community and Environment, in ed. Ineson, E. and Edmonson, C. Created for Community, London: Darton, Longman and Todd

John Bosco Lourdusamy is currently a member of faculty of the Department of Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Dr.Lourdusamy had obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford for his thesis on “Science and National Consciousness: A Study of the Response to Modern Science in Colonial Bengal, 1870-1930”.

While at Oxford, Lourdusamy had also been a Queen Elizabeth Visiting Scholar to the Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Dr.Lourdusamy has authored three books : Science and National Consciousness in Bengal, 1870-1930, (2004) and Religion and Modern Science in Colonial Bengal, 1870-1940, (2007) and Gandhian Knowledge Economy (2010).

His currents areas of interest and research fall broadly under the rubric of Science, Technology and Society. He has particular interest in the area of ICT and Development.
 

Andrew Briggs studied for a degree in Physics at Oxford, followed by a PhD at Cambridge in the 1970s. He then did a degree in Theology and went back to Oxford where he is now Professor of Nanomaterials and Director of the Quantum Information Processing Interdisciplinary Research Centre.

Dr. John Hedley Brooke held the Andreas Idreos Professorship of Science and Religion and Directorship of the Ian Ramsey Centre at the University of Oxford from 1999 to 2006. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford and Honorary Professor of the History of Science at Lancaster University.

A former Editor of the British Journal for the History of Science, he has been President of the British Society for the History of Science and of the Historical Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1995, jointly with Professor Geoffrey Cantor, he gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow.

He has recently served as Director of the European Science Foundation’s Network on ‘Science and Human Values’ and is a founder member of the Oxford Centre for the Science of the Mind (2005-). He is currently President of the UK Forum for Science and Religion and serves on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Science and Religion. Afterretiring in 2007 he became an emeritus fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford and a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Durham.

Selected Publications in Science and Religion

• Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991), (Winner of the Watson Davis Prize of the History of Science Society)
• Thinking About Matter: Studies in the History of Chemical Philosophy (Ashgate, 1995)
• Reconstructing Nature: the Engagement of Science and Religion (T & T Clark, 1998; Oxford University Press, 2000). with Geoffrey Cantor.
• Science in Theistic Contexts: Cognitive Dimensions (Published as Osiris vol.16 by University of Chicago Press, 2001). Co-edited with Margaret Osler and Jitse Van der Meer.
• Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion, co-edited with Ian Maclean (Oxford University Press, 2005)
• Religious Values and the Rise of Science in Europe, co-edited with Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (IRCICA Istanbul, 2005).

   

Warren Brown is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he is Director of the Lee Travis Research Institute. He is also a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute. Prof. Brown received his doctorate in Experimental Physiological Psychology from the University of Southern California (1971). Prior to Fuller, he spent eleven years as a research scientist at the UCLA Brain Research Institute. He writes and lectures extensively, has edited 2 multi-author books and published a number of papers on the relationship between neuroscience and religion.

Prof. Brown is actively involved in experimental neuropsychological research related to functions of the corpus callosum of the brain and its relationship to higher cognitive processes in humans. In particular, he has been studying callosal agenesis and its implications. He has also written and lectured widely on the implications of neuroscience for a Christian view of human nature. He has been particularly interested in resolving the theological issues created if one abandons body-soul dualism.

Recent Publications in Science and Religion

• Brown, W.S. (+ 2 chapters), Murphy, N. and Malony, H.N., Eds. (1998) Whatever Happened of the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature, Fortress Press, 1998.
• Brown, W.S. (1999) ‘A Neurocognitive Perspective on Free Will’, Bulletin of the Center for Theology and Natural Science, 19.1, 22-29.
• Brown, W.S. and Jeeves, M.S. (1999) ‘Portraits of human nature: Reconciling neuroscience and Christian anthropology’, Science and Christian Belief, 11, 139-150.
• Brown, W.S., ed. (+ chapter), Understanding Wisdom: Sources, Science, and Society, Templeton Press (2000).
• Brown, W.S. (2002) ‘Nonreductive physicalism and soul: Finding resonance between theology and neuroscience’, American Behavioral Scientist 45: 1812-1821.
• Brown, W.S. (2003) ‘Evolution, Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Soul’, in Keith B. Miller, ed., Perspectives on an Evolving Creation, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans), pp. 502-523.
• Brown, W.S. (2004) ‘Neurobiological embodiment of spirituality and soul’, in Malcolm A. Jeeves, ed., From Cells to Souls:Changing Portraits of Human Nature, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 58-76.
• Brown, W.S. (2005) ‘Seven Pillars of the House of Wisdom’, in R. Sternberg and J. Jordan. A Handbook of Wisdom: Psychological Perspectives, New York: Cambridge University Press, 353-368.
• Brown, W.S. (2007) ‘The Emergence of Efficacious Mental Function’, in Nancey Murphy and William Stoeger, Reductionism and Emergence: Implications for the Science/Theology Dialogue.
• Murphy, N. and Brown, W.S. (2007) Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? :Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will, Oxford, U.K., Oxford University Press.

Recent scientific publications

• Brown, WS, Jeeves, MA, Dietrich, R., and Burnison, DS. (1999) ‘Bilateral field advantage and evoked potential interhemispheric transmission in commissurotomy and callosal agenesis’, Neuropsychologia, 37, 1154-1180.
• Brown W.S. and Paul L.K., (2000) ‘Psychosocial deficits in agenesis of the corpus callosum with normal intelligence’, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 5, 135-157.
• Brown, W.S. and Banich, M.T. [Special Issue Guest Editors] (2000) ‘Development of the Corpus Callosum and Interhemispheric Interactions’, Developmental Neuropsychology, 18.
• Brown, W.S., Thrasher, E.D., and Paul, L.K. (2001) ‘Interhemispheric Stroop effect in partial and complete agenesis of the corpus callosum’, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 7, 302-311.
• Brown, W.S. (2003) ‘Clinical neuropsychological assessment of callosal dysfunction: Multiple sclerosis and dyslexia’, in E. Zaidel, and M. Iacoboni (Eds.). The Parallel Brain: The Cognitive Neuroscience of the Corpus Callosum, Cambridge: MIT Press.
• Paul, L.K., Van Lancker, D., Schieffer, B. and Brown, W.S. (2003) ‘Communicative deficits in individuals with agenesis of the corpus callosum: Nonliteral language and affective prosody’, Brain and Language 85, 313-324.
• Marion, S.D., Killian, S.C., Naramor, T., and Brown, W.S. (2003) ‘Normal Development of Bimanual Coordination: Visuomotor and Interhemispheric Aspects’, Developmental Neuropsychology 23, 399-421.
• Paul, L.K., Schieffer, B., and Brown, W.S. (2004) ‘Social Processing Deficits in Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum: Narratives from the Thematic Apperception Test’, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 19, 215-225.
• Brown, W.S., Paul, L.K., Symington, M., and Dietrich, R. (2005) ‘Comprehension of Humor in Primary Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum’, Neuropsychologia 43:906-916.
• Brown, W.S., Symington, M., VanLancker, D., Dietrich, R. and Paul, L.K. (2005) ‘Paralinguistic processing in children with Callosal Agenesis: Emergence of neurolinguistic deficits’, Brain and Language, 93, 135-139.

Adrian Brown is currently Assistant Head of Sixth Form at the Ecclesbourne School,  Derbyshire, where he teaches mainly Religious Studies.  His school won the Farmington Award for Religious Studies in 1997 and the first Templeton Award for Science and Religion in schools in 2001.  He previously taught as a science teacher in Reading.

His publications include jointly authored books, Skills Challenge 1992, Skills Challenge II 1995, God Talk, Science Talk 1997, articles in many educational anthologies, numerous book reviews and articles in journals ranging such as the Journal of Education and Christian Belief, RE Today, to Science and Christian Belief and The Swedish Journal of Religion.  He was a major contributor to Test of Faith: Science and Religion Meet: Resources for Schools 2010. Most recently Grove Books published his Reassessing the Culture of Assessment: Weighing Pigs Does Not Make Them Heavier 2011.

Adrian has been a member of the National Executives of the Professional Council for RE and a founder committee member of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.  He was a consultant to the QCA and the Stapleford House Project and has been a Trustee of the latter since 2010.

He regularly speaks at national and international conferences. These have included those run by PCfRE, EFTRE in Edinburgh and Copenhagen, and ESSSAT in Barcelona and Iasi.  He has conducted INSET for PGCE students and Dip RE students at Nottingham University.   Adrian was a Farmington Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford in the Summer Term 1996 researching the tension between postmodernism and scientism.

Over the years 2002 to 2006 he has worked on the Science and Religion in Schools Project as part of the Advisory Group, Editor and author of some of the original materials including work on Miracles and Worldviews. In 2009 he wrote the additional online resources on Intelligent Design and on Boethius.

 

John Bryant is Professor Emeritus of Exeter University and is a noted writer and speaker. He held academic positions at the University of Nottingham and at University College, Cardiff, before, in 1985, he was appointed to the new Chair of Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Exeter. In addition to running an active research group, he has taught Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at all levels from first-year undergraduate to MSc. He also introduced one of the first Bioethics courses for Biology students in a UK university. He is Visiting Professor in Molecular Biology at West Virginia State University where he co-supervises two research projects and participates in undergraduate teaching. He has run workshops for Biology academics on teaching ethics, in the UK, Ireland, Belgium and the USA and is a past President of the Society for Experimental Biology. His main science research interests in are in the replication of DNA and in the regulation of gene activity in relation to the cell division cycle.

Prof. Bryant gave the London Lectures in Contemporary Christianity in 2002. He was Chair of Christians in Science until 2007. In 2005 he was elected to membership of The International Society for Science and Religion. He speaks frequently, in churches, to church-associated groups, to student groups and to secular groups on issues in bioethics and in the science-religion debate. He also writes on bioethics, both in a specifically Christian context and for 'secular' readerships. He has carried out research on the relationship between Christian belief and attitudes to bioethical issues and has recently extended that to include other religions.

Recent selected publications on science and religion

• J.A. Bryant and P. Turnpenny, Genetics and genetic modification of humans: principles, practice and possibilities. In Brave New World, ed C. Deane-Drummond, T & T Clark, Edinburgh (2003), pp 5-26.
• J.A. Bryant and J.F. Searle Life in Our Hands, Inter-Varsity Press, Leicester, (2004).
• Bryant, J.A. and Gudgin. M.G. (2006). Attitudes to stem-cell research amongst conservative evangelical Christian students and students of no religious faith. In preparation.

Selected recent science publications

• J.A. Bryant, L.M. Baggott la Velle and J.F. Searle,(2002) eds Bioethics for Scientists, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester.
• D.C. Brice, J.A. Bryant, G. Dambrauskas, S.C. Drury and J.A. Littlechild (2004) ‘Cloning and expression of cytosolic phospho-glycerate kinase from pea (Pisum sativum L). Journal of Experimental Botany, 55, 955-956.
• Anderson L.E., Bryant J.A., Carol A.A. (2004) Both chloroplastic and cytosolic phosphoglycerate kinase isozymes are present in the pea leaf nucleus. Protoplasma 223, 103-110.
• Evans, D.E., Hutchison, C.J. and Bryant, J.A. (2004) (eds) The Nuclear Envelope, Bios, Oxford.
• Evans, D.E., Bryant, J.A and Hutchison, C.J. (2004) The nuclear envelope: a comparative overview. In the Nuclear Envelope, Evans, D.E., Hutchison, C.J. and Bryant, J.A. (eds), Bios, Oxford, pp1-8.
• Christopher J R Willmott, Andrew N Bond, John A Bryant, Stephen J Maw,Heather J Sears; Jackie M Wilson (2004) Teaching Ethics to Bioscience Students - a Survey of Undergraduate Provision BEE-j Volume 3: May 2004 http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/journal/vol3/beej-3-9.htm.
• J. Bryant (2004) Birds, Bees and Superweeds. Biological Sciences Review 17, 24-27.
• John Bryant Crop plant genetic modification. Bioethics Briefings No 2. Centre for Bioscience, Higher Education Academy (2004).
• Chris Willmott and John Bryant Engaging with the ethical implications of science. Proceedings of the Science Learning and Teaching Conference, 85-89 (2005).
• John Bryant, Linda Baggott la Velle and John Searle Introduction to Bioethics, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, (2005).
• Bryant, J.A. and Morgan, C.L. (2007) Attitudes to Teaching Ethics to Bioscience Students: an Interview-based Study Comparing British and American University Teachers. Bioscience Education EJournal.

Prof. Derek Burke was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, a post he held with distinction from 1987-1995. Prof. Burke is currently Honorary President of the British Nutrition Foundation, Honorary Fellow of St Edmunds College, Cambridge and of the Institute of Biology and Honorary Member of the Society of General Microbiology. He holds a BSc and PhD in Chemistry from Birmingham University and honorary doctorates from the University of Aberdeen and UEA. After research fellowships at Yale and then at the National Institute for Medical Research he lectured at the University of Aberdeen for ten years before appointment as Founding Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick in 1969. From 1982 to 1986 he was Scientific Director of Allelix Incorporated, Toronto, Canada, before returning to the UK in 1987 to become Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia.
 
Prof. Burke was previously Chairman of the Cambridge Templeton Consortium 2004-2009, President of the Society of General Microbiology 1987-1990, a member of the Advisory Committee on Genetic Modification 1987-1995, Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes 1988-1997, a member of the Cancer Research Campaign Council 1987-1997, and Chairman of the Council of the CRC Paterson Institute for Cancer Research 1992-1997. He was Chairman of the Governing Council of the John Innes Centre 1987-1995, and a member of the Science & Engineering Board and the Technology Interaction Board of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 1994-1997. He was a member of the Office of Science and Technology’s Technology Foresight Steering Group 1993-1995. Since retiring in 1995 he has continued as a Governor of the Institute for Food Research in Norwich and Reading 1994-2002, and was Chairman of Genome Research Limited, the body responsible for the governance of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, from 1997-98. He was a member of the Governing Bodies of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge 1995-1999. He also carried out a number of tasks for Government Departments including the Prior Options Review for MAFF in 1995-1996 and a review of their scientific advisory system the Food Standards Agency (2009).

As Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (1988 – 1997), Prof. Burke was responsible for advising the Government on the safety of genetically modified foods and he has been very active in the subsequent debate about the safety, efficacy, and ethics of the use of genetically modified foods, and the crops from which they are derived. This has involved a very large number of speaking engagements, interviews for television and radio, and the writing of many articles. He was a member of the Societal Issues Panel of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council  and is currently a member of the Bioscience for Science Panel of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council which continues to address such issues on a wider horizon, for example the safety and ethical issues associated with synthetic biology. He is also currently a member of Newton's Apple, a science think tank. Prof. Burke was a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology 1995-2001 and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ Working Party on the Genetic Modification of plants, which produced a Report titled ‘Genetically Modified Crops: the Ethical and Social Issues’ (1999) and ‘The use of genetically modified crops in developing countries’ (2004). He has also worked at the European level as one of the ten representatives from the EU in an EU-US Biotechnology Consultative Forum, which reported to Presidents Clinton and Prodi in 2000. He was, from 2000-2004, one of the two UK members of the High Level Life Sciences Group in Brussels, reporting directly to Commissioner Busquin, head of DG XII giving general advice to the Commissioner, especially on issues arising from novel science and technology that raise social and ethical implications for the wider public, including stem cells, and the regulation of genetically modified crops and their use in developing countries.

As a member of the Board of Social Responsibility of the Church of England, Prof. Burke chaired a Working Party on the social and ethical issues of cyberspace and was a member of the Archbishops’ Medical Ethics Advisory Group. Prof. Burke is also a former president of Christians in Science.

Recent publications in science and religion

• Robin Gill & Derek Burke Strategic Church Leadership, SPCK (1996)
• Derek Burke (ed.) Cybernauts awake!, Church Press (1999)
• Derek Burke ‘Evolution and creation’, in Science Meets Faith. Theology and science in conversation, SPC K (1998)
• Derek Burke ‘Genetic engineering of food’, in Christians and bioethics, SPCK (2000)
• Derek Burke ‘BSE, MMR and GM: who’s telling the truth?’, in Can we be sure about anything?  Science, faith and postmodernism, Apollos (2005).
• Derek Burke, 'Spending a life in Science and Faith' in Real Scientists Real Faith Monarach (2009)

Scientific publications

Prof. Burke has published over 120 scientific papers on the antiviral substance interferon and on the molecular biology of animal viruses.

Dr Peter Bussey is Reader in Physics at the University of Glasgow. He was educated at Cambridge University (MA, PhD, ScD) and held posts at Cambridge, CERN and Sheffield University before moving to Glasgow in 1971. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

Dr Bussey is currently working with the following international collaborations:

• ZEUS Experiment at DESY, Hamburg where he leads the Glasgow group, in collaboration with UK groups from Bristol, Imperial College (London), Oxford, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and University College, London.
• CDF Experiment at Fermilab, Chicago, USA in collaboration with UK groups from Liverpool, Oxford and University College, London.

In both cases the collaborations include many other institutions worldwide.

The Glasgow group in ZEUS has concentrated on studies of hard scattering processes high energy photoproduction, and properties of final states in Deep Inelastic Scattering Processes. Since 1995, Dr Bussey has led a programme of study into 'prompt' photons in photoproduction, in which a photon emerges at high energy, radiated off a quark which takes part in the basic scattering process.

The Glasgow group in CDF has joined a programme of research into mesons containing the b quark, produced in high energy proton-antiproton collisions. The group has recently produced the first accurate determination of the mass of the Bc meson.

Recent selected publications in science and religion

• ‘Physical Infinities: A Substitute for God’, Science and Christian Belief 18 (2), pp. 133-150, 2006.
• ‘Beyond Materialism: from the Medieval Scholars to Quantum Physics’, Science and Christian Belief 16 (2), pp. 157-178, 2004.
• ‘Modern Astronomy and our Perception of the Universe’, Science and Christian Belief 12 (1), pp. 3-15, 2000.
• ‘Eastern Religions and Modern Physics – A Further Examination’, Science and Christian Belief 11 (2), pp. 113-127, 1999.
• ‘Indeterminacy, Time and the Future’, 9 (1), Science and Christian Belief pp. 79-84, 1997.

Geoffrey Cantor is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Leeds. With a background in physics he moved first into the history of physics, with a focus on optics. His interest in the issues of science and religion first gelled in his research on Michael Faraday and Faraday's involvement with the Sandemanian church. His research in this area has subsequently developed in several directions including the 1995-96 Gifford Lectures at Glasgow (with John Brooke) which explored the uses of history in our understanding science-religion interrelations. He has also researched the attitudes towards science of small religious communities - specifically the Quakers and Anglo-Jewish communities - in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain. His other main research focus is the SciPer project, which examines the role of science in the general periodical press of the nineteenth century.

Main publications in the area of Science and Religion are:

• Optics after Newton. Theories of Light in Britain and Ireland, 1704-1840 (1983).
• Michael Faraday: Scientist and Sandemanian. A Study of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century (1991).
• Co-authored with John Hedley Brooke: Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion. The 1995-6 Gifford Lectures at Glasgow (1998).
• Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900 (2005).

Bernard Carr read mathematics as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe, working under Stephen Hawking. He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity in 1975 and in 1980 became a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. In 1985 he moved to Queen Mary College, University of London, where he is now Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. He has also held Visiting Professorships at various institutes in America, Canada and Japan. His professional area of research is cosmology and relativity - with particular interest in such topics as the early universe, black holes, dark matter and the anthropic principle. He has recently edited a book entitled Universe or Multiverse?, based on articles presented at three conferences sponsored by the Templeton Foundation. He also has a long-standing interest in the interface between science and religion, having recemtly contributed an article on cosmology and religion in "The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science".

Selected publications

• Carr, B.J. & Rees, M.J. (1979) “The Anthropic Principle and the Structure of the Physical World”, Nature 278, 605-612.
• Carr, B.J. (1982) "On the Origin, Evolution and Purpose of the Physical Universe",1982, Irish Astron. J.,15, 237-252.
• Carr, B.J. (1991) "Anthropic Principles as Constraints on Cosmological Models", J. Brit. Interplan. Soc., 44, 63-70.
• Carr, B.J. (2000) “The Anthropic Principle”, in Encyclopaedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, P. Murdin et al., IOP Publishing & Macmillan.
• Carr, B.J. (2004) “Mind and the Cosmos”, in Science, Consciousness and Ultimate Reality, ed. D.Lorimer, p 33-64, Imprint Academic Press.
• Carr, B.J. (2007) "Universe or Multiverse?", Cambridge University Press.
• Carr, B.J. (2008) “Cosmology and Religion”, in Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, ed. P. Clayton and Z. Simpson, pp 139-155, Oxford University Press.
• Carr, B.J. and Ellis, G.F.R. (2008) "Universe or Multiverse?", Astron. Geophys. 49, 29-33.

Dr William E Carroll is the Thomas Aquinas Fellow in Theology and Science at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Oxford.  He is a European intellectual historian and historian of science whose research and teaching concern: 1) the reception of Aristotelian science in mediaeval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, and the development of the doctrine of creation, and 2) the encounter between Galileo and the Inquisition.  He has also written extensively on the ways in which mediaeval discussions of the relationship among the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology can be useful in contemporary questions arising from developments in biology and cosmology.

He has given plenary lectures at the Jubilee Session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (2000) and at the Vatican Observatory's Institute on Astrophysics (2002).  In May 2007 he spoke at a symposium on the philosophy of cosmology held at the Royal Society in London.  During the commemorations of the Darwin Year (2010), he was a plenary speaker at conferences in Rome and at the University of Notre Dame.  In October 2010 he spoke at a conference on creation jointly organized in Moscow by the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church.

Recent selected publications

• Creation and Science (London, 2011).
• Galileo: Science and Faith (London, 2009).
• La Creación y las Ciencias Naturales: Actualidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino (Santiago, 2003).
• Aquinas on Creation, co-author with Steven E, Baldner  (Toronto, 1997). 
• "Stephen Hawking's Creation Confusion," Public Discourse  (8 September 2010): http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2010/09/1571
• "Creation and the Foundations of Evolution," Angelicum 87 (2010), 45-60.
• "Thomas Aquinas on Science, Sacra Doctrina, and Creation," in Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: Up  to 1700, vol. 1 (of 2), edited by Jitse M van der Meer and Scott Mandelbrote (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 219-248.
• "Divine Agency, Contemporary Physics, and the Autonomy of Nature," The Heythrop Journal 49:4 (July 2008), 582-602.
• "Creation and Science in the Middle Ages," New Blackfriars 88 (November, 2007), 678-689.
• "At the Mercy of Chance?  Evolution and the Catholic Tradition," Revue des Questions Scientifiques 177:2 (2006), 179-204.
• "Galileo and Biblical Exegesis," in Largo campo di filosofare: Eurosymposium Galileo 2001, edited by José Montesinos and Carlos Solís (Orotava, España: Fundación Canaria Orotava de Historia de la Ciencia, 2001), 677-691.
• "Creation, Evolution, and Thomas Aquinas," Revue des Questions Scientifiques 171 (4), 2000, 319-347.
• "Big Bang Cosmology, Quantum Tunneling from Nothing, and Creation,"  Laval théologique et philosophique, 44, 1 (1988) 59-75.
  
   

Dr Chambers graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Natural Sciences, followed by a doctorate in ecology from Oxford University. After a period of post-doctoral research and teaching, he joined the UK Government's environment department in 1997. He has worked on a number of energy and environmental policies including transboundary air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions trading and most recently, energy efficiency.

Allan Chapman was born in 1946 in Manchester and has always maintained close connections with the North West. He graduated from the University of Lancaster, and then did postgraduate work at Wadham College, Oxford. He is an historian by training, and his particular research interests are in scientific biography and astronomy. He teaches the history of science in the Faculty of Modern History, Oxford. In addition to published research, he lectures extensively in the history of science in England and abroad, and in January 1994 he gave the Royal Society's triennial Wilkins Lecture in the History of Science, on Edmond Halley. During 2003-2004 he was Visiting Professor in the History of Science at Gresham College, London

Recent Selected Publications

• Chapman, Allan, and Kent, Paul (eds) Robert Hooke and the English Renaissance (Gracewing, 2005)

• Chapman, Allan, England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2004)
  Chapman, Allan, Great Scientists (DVD, WagTV, 2004)

• Chapman, Allan, Mary Somerville: And the World of Science (Canopus Publishing Limited, 2004)

• Moore, Sir Patrick, and Chapman, Allan, Patrick Moore's Millennium Yearbook: The View from AD 1001 (Springer Verlag, 2000)

• Chapman, Allan, Dividing the Circle: Development of Critical Angular Measurement in Astronomy, 1500-1850 (Wiley-Praxis Series in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 1995)

David Chester, Reader in Geography in the University of Liverpool, is a graduate of Durham and Aberdeen Universities, a Chartered Geologist and a non-stipendiary priest in the Church of England. For more than three decades he has been engaged in research on various aspects of geophysical hazards, and recently has focused his research on strategies of hazard reduction and human responses to catastrophes. 

Peter Clarke is Associate Professor at the Department of Cell Biology and Morphology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Following a first degree in Engineering Science (1968) at the University of Oxford, he did a PhD with philosopher-neurobiologist Donald MacKay at the University of Keele (UK), then postdoctoral jobs in Oxford and St. Louis (USA), before moving to his present department in 1977. His research focuses on neuronal death - occurring naturally in development, or pathologically in cerebral ischemia and hypoxia. He has been awarded two international prizes (the Ingle Writing Award and the Demuth Foundation Award for Medical Research).

Peter Clarke is Associate Editor of the journal Science and Christian Belief and lectures widely on science and religion, mainly on questions relating to the brain. He is very active promoting science-religion dialogue in the French-speaking world and is a founding member of the Réseau des Scientifiques Evangéliques. He is a member of an evangelical church in Lausanne.

Recent publications in science and religion

• P.G.H. Clarke (2010) Determinism, Brain Function and Free Will. Science & Christian Belief 22 (2), 133-149.
• P.G.H. Clarke (2010) Dualism that Makes Contact with Science. Science & Christian Belief 22 (2), 171-172.
• P.G.H. Clarke (2009) Neuroscience and the Soul A Response to Malcolm Jeeves. Science & Christian Belief 21 (1), 61-64.
• P. G.H. Clarke (2008) Book review of Why Psychology Needs Theology: A Radical-Reformation Perspective (eds Alvin Dueck & Cameron Lee) Science & Christian Belief 20 (1), 127-128.

Recent selected science publications

• A.-C. Bessero, F. Chiodini, E. Rungger-Brändle, C. Bonny & P.G.H. Clarke (2010) Role of the c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) pathway in retinal excitotoxicity, and neuroprotection by its inhibition. J. Neurochem. 113, 1307-1318.
• A.-C. Bessero & P.G.H. Clarke (2010) Neuroprotection for optic nerve disorders. Curr. Opinion Neurol. 23, 10-15.
• J. Puyal & P.G.H. Clarke (2009) Targeting autophagy to prevent neonatal stroke damage. Autophagy 5, 1060-1061.
• J. Puyal, A. Vaslin, V. Mottier & P.G.H. Clarke (2009) Post-ischemic treatment of neonatal cerebral ischemia should target autophagy. Annals Neurol. 66, 378-389.
• A. Vaslin, C. Rummel and & P.G.H. Clarke (2009) Unconjugated TAT carrier peptide protects against excitotoxicity. Neurotox. Res. 15, 123-126.
• A. Vaslin, J. Puyal, & P.G.H. Clarke (2009) Excitotoxicity-induced endocytosis confers drug targeting in cerebral ischemia. Annals Neurol. 65, 337-347.

Prof. Philip Clayton is Ingraham Professor, Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Claremont Graduate University. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the University of Cambridge. Prof. Clayton publishes and lectures extensively in the field of science and religion, and a selection of his recent publications are given below. Prof. Clayton gave the annual Boyle Lecture at St. Mary-le-Bow Church in London on 22 Feb. 2006.

Books

• The New Romanticism: How Science, Spirituality and Metaphysics Avoided a Fight to the Death, work in progress.
• The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2006.
• Practicing Science, Living Faith: Twelve Scientists in the Quest for Reconciliation (co-edited with Jim Schaal). New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2005.
• The Re-emergence of Emergence (co-edited with Paul Davies). Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2005.
• Das Gottesproblem, vol. 2: Moderne Lösungsversuche, under contract with Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag. (English title: From Hegel to Whitehead: Systematic Responses to the Modern Problem of God).
• Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, November 2004.
• Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective (co-edited with Jeffrey Schloss). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.
• Science and Beyond: Cosmology, Consciousness and Technology in the Indic Traditions (co-edited with Roddam Narasimha, B. V. Sreekantan, and Sangeetha Menon). Bangalore, India: NIAS Publications, 2004.
• In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God’s Presence in a Scientific World (co-edited with Arthur Peacocke ). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.
• Quantum Mechanics, vol. 5 of Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (coedited with Robert J. Russell John Polkinghorne et al.). Vatican City: Vatican Observatory, and Berkeley: Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 2002.
• Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists (co-edited with Mark Richardson et al.). London and New York: Routledge, 2002.
• The Problem of God in Modern Thought. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.
• God and Contemporary Science. Edinburgh University Press and Eerdmans, 1997.

Papers

• “Transcending Boundaries: Natural Science, Social Science, and Theology,” in Kevin Vanhoozer and Martin Warner, eds., Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology: Reason, Meaning and Experience (Ashgate, 2006).
• “The State of the International Religion-Science Discussion Today,” in Fraser Watts, ed., The Dialogue Between Science and Religion: An International Approach (Philadelphia: Templeton Press, 2006).
• “Explanation in Science and Religion,” in Melville Y. Stewart and Xiang Taotao, eds., Philosophy of Religion, English and Chinese editions (Beijing: Peking Univ. Press, forthcoming 2006).
• “Conceptual Foundations of Emergence Theory” and “Emergence from Quantum Physics to Religion: A Critical Appraisal,” both in Philip Clayton and Paul Davies, eds., The Re-emergence of Emergence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
• “The Religion-Science Discussion at Forty Years: ‘Reports of My Death Are Premature’,” Zygon 40/1 (March 2005): 23-32.
• “Systematizing Agency: Toward a Panentheistic-Participatory Theory of Agency,” in Christine Helmer, ed., Schleiermacher and Whitehead: Open Systems in Dialogue (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004).
• “Biology and Purpose: Altruism, Morality and Human Nature in Evolutionary Perspective,” in Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss, eds., Evolutionary Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.)
• “Wildman’s Kantian Skepticism: A Rubicon for Divine Action,” Theology and Science 2 (October, 2004).
• “Natural Law and Divine Action: The Search for an Expanded Theory of Causation,” Zygon 39/3 (September 2004): 613-34.
• “Perceiving God in the Lawfulness of Nature: Scientific and Religious Reflections,” in Zainal Abindin, ed., Science and Religion in a Post-Colonial Age (Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2004).
• “Transforming ‘the Beyond’ from Enemy to Ally: Methodological Suggestions for the Dialogue between Science and the Spiritual Quest,” and “Concluding Comments” in Roddam Narasimha et al., Science and Beyond: Cosmology, Consciousness and Technology in the Indic Traditions (Bangalore, India: NIAS Publications, 2004).
• “Introduction to Whitehead,” in Timothy Eastman and Hank Keeton, eds., Physics and Whitehead (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2004).
• “Emerging God: Theology for a Complex Universe,” The Christian Century 121/1 (January 13, 2004): 26-30.
• “Theology and the Physical Sciences,” in David Ford, ed., The Modern Theologians, 3rd ed. (London: Blackwell, 2004).
• “Barbour’s Panentheistic Metaphysic,” in Robert J. Russell, ed., Fifty Years in Science and Religion: Ian G. Barbour and His Legacy (Ashgate, 2005).
• “The State of the International Religion-Science Discussion Today,” Islam and Science (2004).
• “On Science and Religion,” in Medhi Golshani, ed., Can Science Dispense with Religion? 3rd ed. (Tehran, Iran: Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, 2004), pp. 79-85.
• “Panentheism in Metaphysical and Scientific Perspective” and “Panentheism Today: A Constructive Systematic Evaluation,” in Clayton and Peacocke, eds., In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God’s Presence in a Scientific World (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004).
• “Emergence: Us from It,” in Science and Ultimate Reality: Quantum Theory, Cosmology and Complexity, edited by John Barrow, Paul Davies, and Charles Harper, Jr. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 577-606.
• “Science, Meaning, and Metaphysics: A Tribute to Wolfhart Pannenberg,” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 28 (December 2003): 237-40.
• “Emergence, Supervenience, and Personal Knowledge” and “Response to My Critics,” feature article in Tradition and Discovery (2003).
• “Postmodernism and the God-World Relation,” in Kevin Vanhoozer, ed., Theology and Postmodernism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
• “Neuroscience, the Human Person and God: An Emergentist Account,” in Ted Peters and Gaymon Bennett, eds., Bridging Science and Religion (London: SCM-Canterbury Press, 2003).
• “Theism,” “Deism,” “Monotheism,”and “Emergence,” Encyclopedia of Science and Religion (New York: Macmillan, 2003).
• “Can Liberals Still Believe that God (Literally) Does Anything?” CTNS Bulletin (2003).
• “The Impossible Possibility: Divine Causes in the World of Nature,” in Ted Peters, Muzaffar Iqbal, and Syed Nomanul Haq, eds., God, Life, and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002).
• “On God and Physics: The Contemporary Dialogue Between Religion and Science in the West,” in Zhou Jianzhang, Kelly James Clark, and Melville Stewart, eds. A Dialogue Between Science and Religion (Xiamen, China: Xiamen University Press, 2002).

Dr Paula Clifford currently leads Christian Aid's strategy on climate change and is head of Church Communications for the organisation. She previously taught medieval French and modern linguistics, first at the University of Reading, and subsequently at Magdalen and Somerville Colleges, Oxford.

Her work with Christian Aid has involved extensive travel in the developing world, particularly in Africa, but also in Asia, the Caribbean and South America, focussing on care for those affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and strategies for preventing the disease’s further spread.

Her particular interests within the climate change strategy are concerned with how climate change affects people in the developing world, and the theological justification for Christian involvement. She was a keynote speaker at the Oxford Operation Noah conference on climate change in February 2006.

Selected Publications

• CLIFFORD, P. (2001) Women Doing Excellently. Canterbury Press.
• CLIFFORD, P. (1997) A Brief History of End-Time. Lion.

Recent science-religion publications

• CLIFFORD, P. (2004) Theology and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Christian Aid.

Dr. Alasdair Coles is an academic neurologist in Cambridge, UK, whose primary research interest is in the immunology and treatment of multiple sclerosis.

He is employed by Cambridge University (as a senior lecturer) and has a small research team managing clinical trials and doing human immunological laboratory work.

He also does clinical work for two days a week as a consultant neurologist at Addenbrooke’s and Peterborough Hospitals. He is also one of the medical advisers to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of the UK, and advises several pharmaceutical companies.

He was scientific adviser and contributor to “Here’s Johnny”, a Wellcome-funded documentary about the effects of multiple sclerosis on graphic artist, Johnny Hicklenton, winner of two Grierson awards in November 2008 (Best Arts Documentary & Best Newcomer).

Dr Coles was ordained priest in the Church of England in 2009 and is now a minister in secular employment at Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Dr Coles has also done some research on the neurological basis for religious experience, stemming from managing a small cohort of patients with spiritual experiences due to temporal lobe epilepsy and he has given invited lectures on this subject at the Department of Theology, Liverpool Hope University, in 2003, and the Department of Religious Studies, Calgary University, 2004 (a Templeton funded invited lecture). He is now engaged in a study, funded by the Templeton Foundation, of the spirituality of people with neurological disease in Cambridgeshire.

Recent science publications

• Coles A J, Wing M, Molyneux P, Paolillo A, Davies C, Hale G, Miller D, Waldmann H, Compston A. Monoclonal antibody treatment exposes three mechanisms underlying the clinical course of multiple sclerosis.Annals of Neurology. 1999 Sept; 46 (3): 296-304.
• Coles A, Wing M, Smith S, Corradu F, Greer S, Taylor C, Weetman A, Hale G, Chatterjee VK, Waldmann H, Compston A. Pulsed monoclonal antibody treatment modulates T cell responses in multiple sclerosis but induces autoimmune thyroid disease. Lancet. 1999 Nov 13; 354: 1691-5.
• Cox A, Thompson S, Jones J, Robertson V, Hale G, Waldmann H, Compston A, Coles A. Lymphocyte homeostasis following therapeutic lymphocyte depletion in multiple sclerosis. European Journal of Immunology. 2005 Nov;35(11):3332-42.
• Coles AJ, Thompson S, Cox AL, Curran S, Gurnell EM, Chatterjee VK. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) replacement in patients with Addison’s disease has a bimodal effect on regulatory (CD4+CD25hi and CD4+FoxP3+) T cells. European Journal of Immunology 2005 Dec;35(12):3694-703.
• Coles AJ, Cox A, Le Page E, Jones J, Trip S, Deans J, Seaman S, Miller D, Hale G, Waldmann H, Compston DAS. The window of therapeutic opportunity in multiple sclerosis: evidence from monoclonal antibody therapy in relapsing-remitting and secondary progressive disease. J Neurology 2006 January; 253 (1): 98-108.
• Coles AJ, Compston DA, Selmaj KW, Lake SL, Moran S, Margolin DH, Norris K, Tandon PK (CAMMS223 Trial Investigators). Alemtuzumab vs. interferon beta-1a in early multiple sclerosis. N Engl J Med. 2008 Oct 23;359(17):1786-801.
• Jones JL, Phuah CL, Cox AL, Thompson SA, Ban M, Shawcross J, Walton A, Sawcer SJ, Compston A, Coles AJ. IL-21 drives secondary autoimmunity in patients with multiple sclerosis, following therapeutic lymphocyte depletion with alemtuzumab (Campath-1H). J Clin Invest. 2009 Jun 22. pii: 37878. doi: 10.1172/JCI37878.

Science and Religion publications

• Coles A. God, theologian and humble neurologist. Brain 2008
• Coles A, Contributor to 'Test of FAITH' documentary, 2008. DVD by Paternoster, Milton Keynes, 2009, 87 mins, £8.99

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is the Author of 'The Language of God' and director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He led the successful effort to complete Human Genome Project (HGP), a complex multidisciplinary scientific enterprise directed at mapping and sequencing all of the human DNA, and determining aspects of its function. A working draft of the human genome sequence was announced in June of 2000, an initial analysis was published in February of 2001, and a high-quality, reference sequence was completed in April 2003. From the outset, the project ran ahead of schedule and under budget, and all the data is now available to the scientific community without restrictions on access or use.

Dr Collins received a B.S. from the University of Virginia, a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Yale University, and an M.D. from the University of North Carolina. Following a fellowship in Human Genetics at Yale, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan, where he remained until moving to NIH in 1993. His research has led to the identification of genes responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.

Recent Selected Publications in Science and Religion

• Collins, FS, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, Simon & Shuster Ltd, 2006.
• Collins FS. The Human Genome Project: tool of atheistic reductionism or embodiment of the Christian mandate to heal? Science & Christian Belief, 1999;11:99-111.
• Collins, FS. Faith and the human genome. 2002 ASA Annual meeting plenary address. Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, 2003; 55:142-153.

Recent Selected Science Publications

• Rothenberg, K, Fuller B, Rothstein M, Duster T, Kahn MJE, Cunningham R, Fine B, Hudson K, King MC, Murphy P, Swergold G, Collins FS. Genetic information and the workplace: legislative approaches and policy challenges. Science, 1997; 275:1755-1757.
• Collins FS, Guyer MS, Chakravarti A. Variations on a theme: cataloging human DNA sequence variation. Science, 1997; 278:1580-1581.
• Collins FS, Patrinos A, Jordan E, Chakravarti A, Gesteland R, Walters LR. New goals for the U.S. Human Genome Project: 1998-2003. Science, 1998; 282:682-689.
• Fuller BP, Ellis Kahn MJ, Barr PA, Biesecker L, Crowley E, Garber J, Mansoura MK, Murphy P, Murray J, Phillips J, Rothenberg K, Rothstein M, Stopfer J, Swergold G, Weber B, Collins FS, Hudson KL. Privacy in genetics research. Science, 1999; 285:1359-1361.
• Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium. Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome. Nature, 2002; 420:520-562.
• Collins FS. Shattuck Lecture - Medical and societal consequences of the Human Genome Project. New England Journal of Medicine, 1999; 341:28-37.
• Collins FS, McKusick VA. Implications of the human genome project for medical science. JAMA, 2001; 285:540-544.
• Collins FS, Weiss L, Hudson K. Heredity and humanity: Have no fear. Genes aren't everything. New Republic, 2001; June 25:27-29.
• Collins FS. Foreword. Pharmacogenomics: social, ethical and clinical dimensions. Edited by Mark A. Rothstein. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2003; ix-x.
• Collins FS. Genomics: the coming revolution in medicine. Global Agenda, Magazine of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2003; 152-154.
• Insel TR, Collins FS. Commemorations: Psychiatry in the Genomics Era. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2003; 160/4:616-620.
• Collins FS, Morgan M, Patrinos A. Viewpoint: The Human Genome Project: Lessons from Large-Scale Biology. Science, 2003; 300:286-290.
• Collins FS, Green ES, Guttmacher AE, Guyer MS. A vision for the future of genomics research. Nature, 2003; 422:835-847.
• Guttmacher, AE, Collins FS. Welcome to the genomic era. Editorial: New England Journal of Medicine, 2003; 349:996-998.

Robin Collins is Professor of Philosophy at Messiah College, Grantham, PA.  He has written widely on cosmic fine-tuning and is currently working on a new book provisionally entitled The Well-Tempered Universe: God, the Fine-tuning, and the Laws of Nature.

 

Marie Connett Porceddu, PhD (Cornell) MBA (USC) is the CEO of A Rocha International (ARI), based in France.  A Rocha is a Christian nature conservation organisation, the name coming from the Portuguese for “the Rock,” as the first initiative was a field study centre in Portugal founded in 1983. A Rocha is now a family of charitable NGOs with established local biodiversity conservation activities in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and South America, Asia and Australasia.

Marie’s current research interests centre on developing and articulating the framework, both in the scientific basis in biodiversity conservation, and the Biblical imperatives, by which Christians in conservation carry out monitoring and restoration projects.  A Rocha projects are frequently cross-cultural in character, and share a community emphasis, with a focus on science and research, practical conservation and environmental education.

Marie received her PhD in Plant Sciences from Cornell University, her MBA in the professional master's program of the Moore International Business School of the University of South Carolina, and two BA degrees cum laude, in Biology and in Modern Languages and Literatures from study at Humboldt State University and the Universitaet Heidelberg.  Post-doctorally Marie was on the academic faculty of the University of Waikato, New Zealand, teaching crop physiology, botany and genetics.  During that faculty employment Marie was seconded to the New Zealand Forest Research Institute as the first manager of its molecular biology programmes, and then into primary industry for more than a decade of similar work in DNA marker implementation, forestry propagation research and field tests; she is an inventor on numerous patents and pending patent applications that arose from that work. Prior to taking up the ARI CEO role in 2007, she was Deputy CEO of CAMBIA, an Australia-based NGO active in enabling innovation in the life sciences, assisting analysis for use particularly in the global South of agricultural and public health technologies.  She led the well-reputed public good website Patent Lens and the launch of open source agreements covering patent licenses, materials and data transfer, in use by universities, companies, and research consortia.  Until this year she has been an Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Marie’s previous writing has been largely in connection with the Patent Lens during the period while she was leading, which saw the addition of biological sequence search tools, status and family information, and expansion from a life sciences database to all technology categories.  She led research and writing of landscape material on rice, bioindicators, patenting of genomic sequences in humans and model plant species including a biofuels emphasis, and plant variety patenting, and before that wrote well-cited reviews in industrial forestry propagation and molecular genetic mechanisms important in diversity.

Selected Publications

• Fluhr, KA, Connett Porceddu MB, Wei Y, Mills K, Jefferson RA, Nottenburg C, Bacon N (2008) The Rice Genome Landscape. Overview of Patenting. http://www.patentlens.net/daisy/patentlens/2205.html
• Bacon N, Ashton D, Jefferson RA, Connett MB (2006) Biological sequences named and claimed in US patents and patent applications, CAMBIA Patent Lens OS4 Initiative, http://www.patentlens.net/daisy/patentlens/2205.html
• Connett-Porceddu, Marie, Ashton DE, Bacon N (2005) Aspects of Search and Retrieval of Trademark and Plant Variety Rights Information, IP Australia.>
• Connett Porceddu, Marie and R.A.Jefferson (2004) Fostering Democratic Innovation as a Means of Reducing the 10/90 Gap in Health. Global Forum 8 on Health Research to meet the Millenium Development Goals, Mexico.>
• Connett Porceddu, Marie (2004) Promoting R&D for the Public Interest in the Asian Region: Inclusionary and Distributive Innovation System Options. UNCTAD / ICTSD Regional Dialogue “Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), Innovation and Sustainable Development”, People’s Republic of China.>
• Yunqiu Wang, Rosie E. Bradshaw, Christian Walter, Marie B. Connett and David W. Fountain. (1997) Characterisation of MADS box DNA sequences in Pinus radiata using PCR cloning. New Zealand Journal of Forest Science 27 (1):3-10.>
• Adam KD, Walsh S, Selkirk P and Connett MB (1995) Genetic variation in populations of the moss Bryum argenteum (s.l.) in East Antarctica. In Battaglia B, Valencia J, Walton DHW (eds.), Antarctic Communities, Cambridge University Press.>
• Connett MB and Hanson MR (1994) Cytoplasmic Male Sterility: The Example of Petunia. In Clarke A, Williams EG (eds.) Genetic Control of Self Incompatibility and Reproductive Development in Flowering Plants, Kluwer Press.>
• Aitken-Christie J. and Connett MB (1992) Micropropagation of Forest Trees for Genetic Improvement. In Kurata K and Kozai T (eds.) Transplant Production Systems, pp.163-194, Kluwer Press.>
• Connett, M.B. (1987) Mechanisms of Maternal Inheritance of Plastids and Mitochondria: Development and Structural Evidence. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 4:193-205.

Simon Conway Morris has held the Chair in Evolutionary Palaeobiology in the Earth Sciences Department in Cambridge University since 1995, with a particular research interest in the early evolution of the metazoans. He became a fellow at St John's College Cambridge in 1975, having taken a first class honours degree in Geology from Bristol University. His initial appointment to the Earth Sciences department was as a lecturer in 1979. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990. In 1992, Simon Conway Morris was the Selby Visiting Fellow at the Australian Academy of Sciences. In 2000 he gave both the Tarner Lectures for Trinity College and was the Marker Lecturer at Penn State University.He has received numerous awards and medals including, in 1998, the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London. He has also appeared on TV and Radio, including the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for the BBC in 1996.

Prof. Conway Morris's publications include:

• Numerous articles in journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.
• The Crucible of Creation first published in 1997 by Kodansha in Japan, and by Oxford University Press in 1998.
• Life's Solution: Inevitable humans in a Lonely Universe, 2003; Cambridge University Press.

David Cook is Holmes Professor of Faith and Learning, Wheaton College; Fellow, Green College, Oxford; and Professor of Christian Ethics, Southern Seminary, Louisville.

Professor Cook was educated at Edinburgh and Arizona State Universities in philosophy and taught in Nottingham at St. John’s Theological College and the University, then in 1979 moved to Oxford to Westminster and Regent’s Park Colleges. He was elected to a fellowship at Green College where he served as Chaplain and was the founding Director of the Whitefield Institute. His teaching ranged from Medical Ethics to Philosophy of Religion and Christian Ethics. His writing includes ‘The Moral Maze’, ‘Question Time’, ‘Blind Alley Beliefs’ and ‘Not Just Science’. He was a member of the Radio Four Moral Maze team and a regular on Thought for the Day, Pause for Thought and the Daily Service. He had his own radio and television series, advised on a BBCI TV drama series and was regularly interviewed on medical and ethical issues. A former member of the BMA Medical Ethics Committee and the Archbishops’ Medical Ethics Advisory Committee, he remains a member of the United Kingdom Xenotransplantation Interim Regulatory Authority and has given advice to Select Committees of the Commons and Lords. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Gordon College, Mass.

Currently David has completed a book on Contraception and is working on ‘Through the Moral Maze’, a new book looking at looking at fertility, genetics, sexuality, environment and war and peace. He is also working on books on the ethics of Palliative Care and one on the Beginning of Life.

With Dot Chappell he edited and contributed to ‘Not Just Science’ which draws from a wide range of the sciences and examines how Christianity influences and affects scientific work. He is interested in neuroethics, genetic engineering, xenotransplantation and robotics as well as medical ethical issues.

Publications

• ‘Not Just Science’, ed D.F.Chappell and E.D.Cook, Zondervan, 2005.
• ‘What are the Philosophical Implications of Christianity for the Natural Sciences?’, with R.O'Connor, in 'Not Just Science' Zondervan, 2005
  
• ‘How Does Society Interact with Science?’, with D.F.Chappell, in 'Not Just Science' Zondervan, 2005
  
• ‘What are the Limits in Bioengineering?’, in 'Not Just Science' Zondervan, 2005
• ‘How Should the Christian’s Foundational Beliefs Shape the Work of Scientists?’, in 'Not Just Science' Zondervan, 2005
• ‘Neuroethics in Perspective?’, Whitefield Briefings, 2005
• ‘The Individual versus the Common Good’, Transplants, ed. P Morris, Council of Europe, 2003
• ‘The Relationship of Ethics to Livestock and Quality of Life’, Livestock, Ethics and Quality of Life, ed J.Hodges and K Han, CABI publishing, 2000
• ‘The Moral Maze, SPCK, reprinted 1994|

Dr Marc Cortez is Academic Dean and Assistant Professor of Theology and Church History at Western Seminary, Portland, Oregon, where he teaches systematic theology, historical theology, philosophy, and biblical Greek. His research interests revolve largely around the interplay between Christology and anthropology in Christian theology, particularly with reference to human ontology and ethics. He is also interested in a variety of theological figures including Karl Barth, Augustine, and Jonathan Edwards.

Recent Publications

• Marc Cortez (2009), Theological Anthropology: A Guide for the Perplexed, Edinburgh: T & T Clark.
• Marc Cortez (2008), Embodied Souls, Besouled Bodies: An Exercise in Theological Anthropology and its Significance for the Mind/Body Debate, Edinburgh: T & T Clark.

• Marc Cortez (2008), "Body, Soul, and (Holy) Spirit: Karl Barth's Theological Framework for Understanding Human Ontology." International Journal of Systematic Theology 10.3: 328-345.

• Marc Cortez (2007), "What Does It Mean to Call Karl Barth a Christocentric Theologian?" Scottish Journal of Theology 60.1: 127-143. 

Prof. Cowburn has research interests in nanotechnology and its application
to magnetism, electronics and optics. Before returning to Cambridge in 2010
he held positions at the CNRS Paris, University of Durham and Imperial
College London. He is the founder of two start-up companies and the
inventor of the anti-counterfeiting technology 'Laser Surface
Authentication'. He has had over 60 patents granted and is a frequent
invited speaker at international conferences. He is the winner of the 2003
GSK Westminster Medal and Prize, the 2006 Degussa Science to Business Award,
the 2007 Hermes International Technology Award and the 2008 Institute of
Physics Paterson Medal and Prize. In 2009 his research was recognised by
the European Union by the award of a 2.8 million Euros ERC Advanced
Investigator Grant and in 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
 

Dr George Coyne was born on January 19, 1933, in Baltimore, Maryland, and completed his bachelor's degree in mathematics and his licentiate in philosophy at Fordham University, New York City, in 1958. He obtained his doctorate in astronomy from Georgetown University in 1962.  In 1976 he became a senior research fellow at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) of the University of Arizona (UA) and a lecturer in the UA Department of Astronomy. The following year he served as Director of the UA's Catalina Observatory and as Associate Director of the LPL. Dr Coyne became Director of the Vatican Observatory (VO) in 1978, and also Associate Director of the UA Steward Observatory. During 1979-80 he served as Acting Director and Head of the UA Steward Observatory and the Astronomy Department, and thereafter he continued as an adjunct professor in the UA Astronomy Department. He retired as Director of the VO in August 2006. He remains on the staff of the VO as Director Emeritus and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. A member of the Society of Jesus since the age of 18, he completed the licentiate in sacred theology at Woodstock College, Woodstock, Maryland, and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1965.

Dr Coyne's research interests have been in polarimetric studies of various subjects including the interstellar medium, stars with extended atmospheres and Seyfert galaxies, which are a group of spiral galaxies with very small and unusually bright star like centers. (Polarimetry is the technique of measuring or analyzing the polarization of light. When light rays exhibit different properties in different directions, the light is said to be polarized.) Most recently he has been studying the polarization produced in cataclysmic variables, or interacting binary star systems that give off sudden bursts of intense energy, and dust about young stars.

He is a member of the International Astronomical Union, the American Astronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. He has been awarded the following Ph.D. degrees honoris causa: 1980, St. Peter's University, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; 1994, Loyola University, Chicago, USA; 1995, University of Padua, Padua, Italy; 1997, Pontifical Theological Academy, Jagellonian University, Cracow; 2005 Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; 2007 Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 2009, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, USA and the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; 2010 Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California. He was awarded the Mendel Medal by Villanova University in September 2008.

Parallel to his scientific research Coyne has developed an interest in the history and philosophy of science and in the relationship between science and religion. Thus he founded the series of studies concerning controversies about Galileo, entitled: STUDI GALILEIANI, and he is one of the principal organizers of a series of conferences on the theme of SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES ON DIVINE ACTION. He served as the head of the section on epistemology and science of the Galileo Commission, constituted by John Paul II in 1981. He has lectured widely on the results of that Commission.

Recent selected publications in science and religion

• Wayfarers in the Cosmos: The Human Quest for Meaning, 2002, G.V. Coyne and A. Omizzolo (New York: Crossroad Publishing) 184 pp.
• Seeking the Future: A Theological Perspective, 2002, in The Far Future Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective, ed. G.F.R. Ellis (Philadelphia & London: Templeton Foundation Press) pp. 12-19.
• Religion and Science: Roman Catholic Issues, in Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, ed. J. Wentzel Vrede van Huyssteen, (New York: Macmillan Reference USA), in press
• The Church’s Most Recent Attempt to Dispel the Galileo Myth, 2005, in The Church and Galileo, ed. E. McMullin (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press)  pp. 340-359.
• Destiny of Life and Religious Attitudes, G.V. Coyne, in Life as We Know It, ed. J. Seckbach (Dordrecht: Springer Science 2005).
• God’s Chance Creation, G.V. Coyne, The Tablet, 8 August 2005, pp. 6-7.
• Infinite Wonder of the Divine, G.V. Coyne, The Tablet, 3 December 2005.
• A Comprehensible Universe. The Interplay of Science and Theology, G.V. Coyne and M. Heller (New York: Springer 2008)160 pages.
• Galileo Judged: Urban VIII to John Paul II, G.V. Coyne, Galilaeana, 2009, in press.
• Galileo’s Telescopic Observations: The Marvel and Meaning of Discovery, G.V. Coyne, Galileo’s Medicean Moons, Proceedings of IAU Symposium 269, eds. C. Barbieri et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010).

 

William Crawley is a journalist and broadcaster with the BBC who presents programmes on radio and television on everything from news and current affairs and hard-hitting political and ethical debate to entertainment, arts and culture. Among the programmes with a religious angle he has presented is Radio Ulster's award winning religious and ethical Sunday Sequence programme.

He was an undergraduate at Queen's University, Belfast, where he studied philosophy, followed by a master's degree at Princeton Theological Seminary.  He returned to Queen's to study for his PhD.  Before his career in broadcasting, he was a university lecturer in philosophy and theology as well as a minister in the Presbyterian Church.

Juliet Davenport is founder and Chief Executive of Good Energy, the UK’s leading renewable electricity supplier.

Since Good Energy was founded 10 years ago it has effected real change in the energy market. It now has 26,000 customers and supports over 1,500 independent green generators. Its goal is to help the UK to a 100% renewable future.

Juliet has won several accolades for her work, including PLUS Markets CEO of the year 2009 and 2010. Good Energy has won a Sunday Times Best Green Company Award twice, an Observer Ethical Award and was named West of England Business of the Year 2009.

Prof. Ted Davis is the Director of the Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science.

EDUCATION:

• B.S. (Physics), Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA), June 1975

• M.A. (History and Philosophy of Science), Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), October 1981

• Ph.D (History and Philosophy of Science), Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), August 1984. Dissertation title: "Creation, Contingency, and Early Modern Science: The Impact of Voluntaristic Theology on 17th Century Natural Philosophy". Major professor: the late Richard S. Westfall.

POST-DOCTORAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Professor of the History of Science, Messiah College, 1996-present; Distinguished Professor chair, 2002-2007

• Associate Professor of Science and History, Messiah College, 1990-1996

• Assistant Professor of Science and History, Messiah College, 1985-1990

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Departments of History and Philosophy, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN), 1984-85

MAIN AREAS OF INTEREST

• Christianity and science since 1600

• The "Scientific Revolution," especially Robert Boyle (1627-1691)

• Early history of antievolutionism, especially Harry Rimmer (1890-1952)

• Protestant modernist efforts to control the image of science in America

• The physical sciences since Copernicus

Professor Celia Deane-Drummond graduated with an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University prior to study for a doctorate in Plant Physiology at Reading and Letcombe Research Station (Oxford University). She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Vancouver, Canada and the Biophysics group at Cambridge University, followed by a spell as a lecturer at Durham University. Her attention then moved to a study of theology, graduating with an honours degree in Theology accredited to CNAA followed by a PhD in Moltmann’s theology in the department of theological studies at Manchester University.

After working for a time at the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture in Manchester, she obtained a PGCE at Manchester Metropolitan University and began teaching at Chester College in 1994. Her scientific and theological experience have served her well in research activity, and she was awarded a Chair in Theology and the Biological Sciences in 2000.

While the focus of teaching is contemporary theology, Celia has also developed expertise in open learning while at Chester and was director of the MA in Adult education with theological reflection from 1994 to 2001. Her current teaching includes, for example, Introduction to Christian theology, Celtic Christianity, Reformation, Contemporary Theological Issues, New Frontiers in Biology and Theology, Research Methods.

Calvin deWitt is Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Wisconsin Madison and President Emeritus of the Au Sable Institute where he prepared hundreds of students for environmental careers, helping them to probe their environmental beliefs, and inspiring them to reach out to help people incorporate environmental integrity into their worldviews. His numerous books, papers and lectures have made him a pioneer in raising environmental concern in the USA.

Barbara Drossel is professor of Theoretical Physics at Darmstadt University of Technology. She studied Physics at the Technical University of Munich and the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg from 1982 to 1989 and then engaged in doctoral research at the Technical University of Munich under Prof. F. Schwabl. From 1994 to 1996 she worked with Prof. Mehran Kardar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA), on a postdoctoral fellowship from the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 1996 she moved to Manchester University to carry out postdoctoral studies in Condensed Matter Theory before becoming Research Associate in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at Tel Aviv University (Israel), financed by a Minerva Fellowship (first year) and a Heisenberg Fellowship (second year). Prof. Drossel’s research interests are in the field of complex systems. These include biological systems, such as genetic networks, ecosystems and evolutionary processes, as well as physical systems such as soft materials (gels, polymers), chaos and pattern formation.

Prof. Drossel lectures on science-religion to general audiences. She is a member of the editorial board of the German science-faith journal "Evangelium and Wissenschaft", edited by the Karl-Heim-Gessellschaft. She is also a member of Christians in Science.

Recent publications in science and religion

• Drossel, B. ‘Modelle für Evolution’, Evangelium und Wissenschaft Vol 43 issue 4 (2003). (in German)
• Drossel, B. und Schutz, G. 'Intelligent Design: Kann man Gottes Handeln wissenschaftlich fassen?' Evangelium und Wissenschaft Vol 28 issue 1 (2007) (in German)
• Drossel, B. 'Der Gotteswhan von Richard Dawkins', Evangelium und Wissenschaft Vol 29 issue 1 (2008) (in German)
• Drossel, B. 'Was Kann die Physik ueber den Zufall sagen?' Evangelium und Wissenschaft Vol 30 issue 1 (2009) (in German)

Recent science publications

• M. Heckmann, B. Drossel, Cylindrical phase of block copolymers in thin films, Macromolecules 41, 7679-7686 (2008)
• M. Heckmann, B. Drossel, Strong stretching theory for diblock copolymers in thin films, J. Chem. Phys. 129, 214903 (2008)
• I. Ament, S. Scheu, B. Drossel, Influence of spatial structure on the maintenance of sexual reproduction, J. Theor. Biol. 254, 520-528 (2008)
• M. Bach, F. Wissel, B. Drossel, Olami-Feder-Christensen model with quenched disorder, Phys. Rev. E 77, 067101 (2008)
• C.Fretter, B. Drossel, Response of Boolean networks to perturbation, Eur. Phys. J. B 62, 365-371 (2008)

• C. Guill, B. Drossel, Alternative dynamical states in stage-structured consumer populations, Theor. Pop. Biol. (2009)

• T. Peixoto, B. Drossel, Noise in Random Boolean Networks, Phys. Rev. E (2009)

• B. Kartascheff, C. Guill, B. Drossel, Positive complexity-stability relations in food web models without foraging adaptation, J. Theor. Biol. (2009)

• C. Fretter, A. Szejka, B. Drossel, Perturbation propagation in random and evolved Boolean networks, New J. Physics 11, 033005 (2009)

• T. Mihaljev, B. Drossel, Evolution of a population of random Boolean networks, Eur. Phys. J. B 67, 259-267 (2009)

Noah Efron served for ten years as the Chairman of the Program in Science, Technology & Society at Bar-Ilan University. And the President of the Israeli Society for History and Philosophy of Science.   He serves on the executive committee of the International Society for Science & Religion.  Efron has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Dibner Institute for History of Science and Technology at MIT and a Fellow at Harvard University.  He is the author, most recently, of Judaism & Science: A Historical Introduction.  He presently serves on the City Council of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, where he lives with his wife, daughter, son, bunny and dog.

Paul Ekins has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of London and is Professor of Energy and Environment Policy at the UCL Energy Institute, University College London. He is also a Senior Consultant to Cambridge Econometrics; and a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, in charge of its Energy Systems and Modelling theme; and he leads University College's participation in the EPSRC SUPERGEN consortia on hydrogen and bioenergy. He is a member of Ofgem's high-level Environmental Advisory Group, and Chairman of the Government-funded National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP), the UK's most successful programme to improve resource productivity. From 2002-2008 was a Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. From 1997-2005 he was a specialist adviser to the Environmental Audit Committee of the House of Commons, from 2003-2007 was a Member of the Government's Sustainable Energy Policy Advisory Board, and in 2007 was a Specialist Adviser to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Climate Change Bill. He has also been a consultant to the Government's Sustainable Development Commission, and an adviser to the UK Government's Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment and Round Table on Sustainable Development, and has been a frequent contributor to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales' annual course for senior executives on business and the environment at the University of Cambridge. In 1994 Paul Ekins received a Global 500 Award 'for outstanding environmental achievement' from the United Nations Environment Programme.

Paul Ekins' academic work focuses on the conditions and policies for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy, and he is an authority on a number of areas of energy-environment-economy interaction and environmental policy, including: sustainable development assessment methodologies; scenarios, modelling and forecasting; resource productivity; sustainable energy use; the adjustment of national accounts to take account of environmental impacts; environmental economic instruments and ecological tax reform; sustainable consumption; and environment and trade. He has extensive experience consulting for business, government and international organisations. This experience has included over 50 projects and consultancies over the last ten years, and many advisory positions. He is the author of numerous books, papers and articles on environmental taxation and other sustainable development issues, including Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: the Prospects for Green Growth (Routledge, London, 2000). He is co-editor of the books Understanding the Costs of Environmental Regulation in Europe (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2009), Trade, Globalization, and Sustainability Impact Assessment: A Critical Look at Methods and Outcomes (Earthscan, London, 2009), Carbon-Energy Taxation: Lessons from Europe (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009) and Hydrogen Energy: Economic and Social Challenges (Earthscan, London, 2010). Further edited books will appear in 2010: Environmental Tax Reform: Resolving the Conflict Between Economic Growth and the Environment, Oxford University Press, Oxford; Energy 2050: the Transition to a Secure, Low-Carbon Energy System for the UK, Earthscan, London, and Green Fiscal Reform for the UK: Tackling Climate Change, Creating Jobs, Earthscan, London.

Professor George F. R. Ellis is Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa. His professional research work has been in relativity theory and cosmology, complexity studies, and the brain. He has been a University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and Professor of Cosmic Physics at the International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, as well as holding many visiting Professorships at Universities worldwide. He is a Fellow and past Council member of the Royal Society of South Africa, a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Science, and Editor in Chief of the Journal of General Relativity and Gravitation. He has published over 300 scientific papers, mainly on relativity and cosmology.

Professor Ellis is interested in the science-religion field overall, and took part in the Vatican Observatory/CTNS series of workshops. His views are set out in his book with Nancey Murphy, On the Moral Nature of the Universe (see below). Professor Ellis has received many awards, including the Star of South Africa Medal awarded by President Mandela, the Gold Medal of the South African Academy of Science, and the Templeton Prize. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2007.

Recent publications include

• Flat and Curved Space-Times, with R M Williams (Oxford University Press, 1988; revised version, 2000).
• The Renaissance of General Relativity and Cosmology, with A Lanza and J Miller (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
• Science Research Policy in South Africa (Royal Society of South Africa, 1994).
• The dynamical systems approach to cosmology, with J Wainwright (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
• N Murphy and G F R Ellis: On the Moral Nature of the universe: Cosmology, Theology, and Ethics (Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1996).
• Is The Universe Open or Closed? The Density of Matter in the Universe, with P Coles (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
• G F R Ellis (ed): The Far Future Universe, (Templeton Foundation Press, 2002)
• The Universe Around Us: An Integrative View of Science and Cosmology, web notes at Mathematics Department, University of Cape Town.

Fern Elsdon-Baker is head of the British Council's Darwin Now project and is author of The Selfish Genius: How Richard Dawkins rewrote Darwin's Legacy (Icon Books, 2009).

Paul Ewart obtained a B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from Queen’s University Belfast and then was an (SERC) Advanced Fellow at the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. In 1979 he moved to the Physics Department, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University and as a Tutor and Fellow of Worcester College. He has been a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow, a Visiting Fellow at the Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics and Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA, a CNRS visiting Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris and a William Evans Visiting Fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research work has centred on using lasers to study atomic and molecular physics, quantum optics and nonlinear spectroscopy. Current research includes interdisciplinary applications of laser spectroscopy to combustion and environmental physics. He is now Professor of Physics and Head of the department of Atomic and Laser Physics at Oxford University.

Details of research and scientific publications are available online.

Publications in Science and Religion

• “The necessity of chance: randomness, purpose and the sovereignty of God.” To be published in Science & Christian Belief, autumn 2009.
• Confusing metaphysics with science a mistake – a reply to Colin Blakemore (pdf document, 354KB) by Paul Ewart, from The Otago Daily Times, 29 May 2009.
• "Creator's work an invitation to seek evidence of his existence (pdf document, 1.7MB) by Paul Ewart, from The Otago Daily Times, 24 July 2009

More articles can be found on the Christian Scholars Network

After obtaining a first class degree and an award for top graduate in the Biological Sciences, Paul Fairchild began his research career in Oxford, where he studied for a DPhil within the Nuffield Department of Surgery, focussing on the immune response to organ allografts.

After spending five years as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, he returned to Oxford where he is currently a Lecturer and RCUK Academic Fellow within the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. Here, he has applied his immunological training to the emerging field of cell replacement therapy and regenerative medicine to investigate the immune response to tissues differentiated from embryonic stem cells, the rejection of which threatens to undermine the success of regenerative medicine in the future.

He has developed technologies which may help promote the indefinite survival of stem cell-derived grafts, which forms the basis of a patent, licensed by Geron Corporation with whom he collaborates scientifically. He has published widely in the field and is a frequent speaker at international conferences.

Darrel Falk is Professor of Biology at Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, where he teaches genetics and a broad range of biological subjects, as well as history and philosophy of science. He obtained his PhD from the University of Alberta, and then did post-doctoral research at the University of British Columbia and the University of California at Irvine before taking up a faculty position at Syracuse University, New York. Desiring to focus on teaching undergraduates, especially in a Christian setting, he then accepted his present post.

Prof. Falk is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Scientific Affiliation. He is the author of Coming to Peace with Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology (InterVarsity Press, Downer's Grove, Illinois, 2004).

Dr Graeme Finlay studied for a PhD in cellular immunology, and then joined the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, New Zealand, where he has been working for the past 20 years. This laboratory is involved in the development of novel anti-cancer agents, and is the largest group of this nature in the southern hemisphere. Research focus has centred on DNA-binding agents that poison the DNA-organising enzyme topoisomerase II. Areas investigated have included effects on the cell division cycle, mechanisms of cell death and the activity of the tumour suppressor gene encoding p53 in cell death pathways. Since 2000 Dr Finlay has also been Senior Lecturer in General Pathology in the Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland.

Two very different currents of thought directed him into the study of comparative evolutionary genetics. The first was the explosive growth in the understanding in cancer genetics that occurred since the early 1980s. The second was the wholesale importation of American creationist ideas into New Zealand. These developments intersected in fascinating ways. They generated a writing programme designed to identify some of the extraordinary developments in genetics described in the scientific literature, and present them in terms accessible to non-biologists. The resulting booklets were all published in 2004 by Telos Books (Auckland) with the titles:

• 'Evolving Creation' 46pp. ISBN 0-476-00650-3
• 'God's Books: Genetics and Genesis' 75pp. ISBN 0-476-00651-1
• 'A Seamless Web: Science and Faith'. 59pp. ISBN 0-476-00816-6

Dr Helen Firth is a Consultant Clinical Geneticist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Professor Frances Flinter is a consultant Clinical Geneticist and Caldicott Guardian at Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and she has a personal chair in Clinical Genetics at King’s College, London. She trained at Guy’s Hospital Medical School and worked in paediatrics before a 3 year doctoral research post in the Paediatric Research Unit at Guy’s mapping the gene for Alport’s syndrome (hereditary nephritis with deafness) led to specialisation in clinical genetics. Her particular interests include the genetics of inherited renal disease and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Frances is the consultant geneticist on the Guy’s PGD team, which is the largest and most successful in the UK; more than 350 healthy babies have now been born as a result of this programme. From 2000 – 2007 Prof. Flinter was also the clinical director of the Evelina Children’s Hospital.

Prof. Flinter has been a member of the Human Genetics Commission since 2005 and chaired two working parties on the regulation of Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) genetic testing and preconception genetic screening. She was also a member of the working group that produced a report on reproductive decisions and genetic technologies called ‘Making Babies’.

Prof. Flinter is a member of the Commissioning Advisory Group of the UK Genetic Testing Network and of the Human Genome Strategy Group, past President of the Clinical Genetics Society and a former member of the antenatal subgroup of National Screening Committee. She is also currently a member of a Nuffield Council on Bioethics working party on the use of PGD to exclude mitochondrial disorders.

Prof. Flinter has provided advice on genetic services in Qatar and Hong Kong and given invited presentations on genetic tests in the European parliament and the Czech parliament.

Relevant publications on PGD 

• Braude P and Flinter FA (2007) Use and misuse of preimplantation genetic diagnosis BMJ 335: 752-754
• Braude P, Pickering S, Flinter F, Ogilvie CM. (2002) Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. Nature Reviews: Genetics 3, 941-953
• Flinter FA. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. (2001) BMJ, 322, 1008 – 9

Human Genetics Commission Reports

• Increasing options, informing choice

http://www.hgc.gov.uk/Client/document.asp?DocId=315&CAtegoryId=10

• Making Babies: reproductive decisions and genetic technologies

http://www.hgc.gov.uk/Client/document.asp?DocId=112&CAtegoryId=10

• A Common Framework of Principles for direct-to-consumer genetic testing services

http://www.hgc.gov.uk/Client/document.asp?DocId=280&CAtegoryId=10

 

Keith Fox is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Southampton, as well as the chairman of Christians in Science. He originally studied in Cambridge, before moving to Southampton as a lecturer in 1987. He is the senior executive editor of Nucleic Acids Research.

His research concerns the sequence specific recognition of DNA by small molecules, oligonucleotides and proteins. Compounds that bind to DNA in a sequence specific fashion have potential for artificially controlling gene expression and may be used as anticancer or antiviral agents. Several DNA binding antibiotics are currently used in cancer chemotherapy, and we are seeking to understand the molecular mechanisms by which they bind to DNA with a view to designing new agents with improved selectivity. In all our studies we make extensive use of the footprinting technique, using both natural and synthetic DNA fragments. Much of this work is performed in collaboration with Professor Tom Brown in the Department of Chemistry.

Stephen Freeland is Associate Professor in Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He received Bachelor's degree in zoology from Oxford University, a Master's degree in Computing and Mathematics from the University of York, UK, and a Ph.D from Cambridge University's Department of Genetics. He is an evolutionary biologist who studies the origin of the genetic code.

His research uses a combination of theory, simulation and wet-lab experimentation to explore a host of fundemental questions about the evolution of the genetic code, including, the emergence and role of the standard code in the origin and evolution of life, from E.coli to humans, what evolutionary forces have caused the code to change in disparate lineages, and how the code's properties influence the general process of evolution, and hence the composition and form of modern genomes.

Dr Nicholas Gibson is Assistant Director of the Psychology and Religion Research Group, Divinity Faculty, Cambridge University. His Ph.D. research, supervised by Fraser Watts, involved the development of new experimental paradigms for the investigation of religious cognition. Since October 2007 he has also held the Templeton Research Fellowship in Science and Religion at Queens' College, Cambridge. Dr Gibson has been involved in a variety of teaching of experimental psychology and practical theology for colleges within the University and the Cambridge Theological Federation. He has held several roles on the Steering Group of the British Association of Christians in Psychology (BACIP), including Conference Chair and Development Officer.

His research interests mainly focus on how religious believers and non-believers represent God in mind. He works broadly within an information-processing framework and draw on both the social cognition and cognition and emotion literatures as they can be applied within the psychology of religion. So far he's been looking at memory and reaction time biases associated with processing God-referent information in atheists and Christians of various flavours. Experimental paradigms involving these biases seem to provide a good alternative to the pencil-and-paper surveys so beloved of most psychologists of religion. My ongoing work, supported by Claire White, seeks to better understand how and when people use representations of God's supernatural powers and human-like characteristics.

Robin Gill is Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology, University of Kent at Canterbury. This unique chair was established in honour of a former Archbishop of Canterbury and Robin is the first holder. Previously he was also the first holder of the William Leech Professorial Fellow in Applied Theology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He has particular research interests in health care and Christian ethics and in the sociological study of churches. He is Director of the MA in Applied Theology and teaches Sociology of Religion and Modern Theology at undergraduate level.

Robin Gill was appointed honorary canon of Canterbury Cathedral in 1992. He was theological consultant to the 1998 Lambeth Conference and has been a member of advisory groups on both Theology and Medical Ethics for the Archbishop of Canterbury.

He is a member of the BMA Medical Ethics Committee and has been a member of the Medical Research Council’s Stem Cell Steering Committee, President of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics and Chair of British Sociological Association’s Study Group of Religion.

Publications

Books

• The Social Context of Theology (Mowbray, Oxford, 1975, pp.150, ISBN 0-264-66290-3)
• Theology and Social Structure (Mowbray, Oxford, 1977, pp.153, ISBN 0-264-66463-9)
• A Textbook of Christian Ethics (T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1985 and revised 1995, pp.600, ISBN 0-567-29280-0),
• The Myth of the Empty Church (SPCK, London, 1993, pp.335, ISBN 0-281-04643-3)
• Churchgoing and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1999, pp.277, ISBN 0-521-57828-0)
• The ‘Empty’ Church Revisited [revised and updated version of The Myth of the Empty Church] (Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants, 2003, pp.256, ISBN 0-7546-3463-9)
• Health Care and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006, pp.229, ISBN 0-521-85723-6)

Shorter Books and Essay Collections

• Prophecy and Praxis (Marshall, Morgan and Scott, London, 1981, pp.143, ISBN 0-551-00918-7)
• The Cross Against the Bomb (Epworth, London, pp.94, ISBN 0-7162-0403-7)
• Beyond Decline (SCM Press, London, 1988, pp.146, ISBN 0-334-00097-1)
• Competing Convictions (SCM Press, London, 1989, pp.180, ISBN 0-334-01908-7)
• Christian Ethics in Secular Worlds (T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1991, pp.159, ISBN 0-567-29198-7)
• Moral Communities (Exeter University Press, 1992, pp.87, ISBN 0-85989-391-X)
• Strategic Church Leadership with Derek Burke (SPCK, London, 1996, pp.96, ISBN 0-281-04901-7)
• Moral Leadership in a Postmodern Age (T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1997, pp.174, ISBN 0-567-08550-3)
• Changing Worlds (T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 2002, pp.174, ISBN 0-567-08875-8)

Edited Books

• Theology and Sociology: A Reader (Chapman/Cassell, London, 1987 and revised 1996, pp.516, ISBN 0-304-33839-7)
• Readings in Modern Theology (SPCK, London, and Abingdon, USA, 1995, pp.399, ISBN 0-281-04819-3)
• Michael Ramsey as Theologian with Lorna Kendall (Darton, Longman and Todd, London and Cowley, Boston, 1995, pp.199, ISBN 0-232-52081-X)
• Euthanasia and the Churches (Cassell, London, 1998, pp.136, ISBN 0-304-70352-4)
• New Studies in Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, twenty-three monographs since 1992)
• The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001, pp.290, ISBN 0-521-77918-9)
• Reflecting Theologically on AIDS (Continuum, London and UNAID, Geneva, 2007, pp.208, ISBN 978-0-334-04002-6)

Mehdi Golshani is Professor of Physics at the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran. Dr Golshani studied for his doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley before returning to Tehran to pursue his academic career. His research interests include Particle Physics, Foundational and Philosophical Aspects of Physics, Philosophy of Science, and Theology.

Prof. Golshani is currently the Director of the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies and Chairman of the Faculty of the Philosophy of Science, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran. Previously he was Chairman of the Dept. of Basic Sciences, Academy of Science, Islamic Republic of Iran (1990-2000).

He is a member of a several scientific bodies, including the Academy of Sciences, Islamic Republic of Iran, the American Association of Physics Teachers and the International Society for Science & Religion

He has received a John Templeton Award for a Science-Religion Course Program and is a former Judge for the John Templeton Award for Progress in Religion.

Publications in English

• The Holy Qur’an and the Sciences of Nature (1999)
• From Physics to Metaphysics (1997)
• Can Science Dispense with Religion? (third edition , 2004)
• Issues in Science and Religion (2004).

Dr David Gosling trained as a physicist and lectured in that subject for seven years at St Stephen’s College, Delhi. He was ordained in the Church of England and at one time was the Director of Church and Society of the World Council of Churches. For several years he was principal of Edwardes college in the University of Peshawar but has recently returned to Cambridge University where he teaches ecology. He was Spalding Fellow at Clare Hall.

He has written two books, Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia (2001) and Science and the Indian Tradition: When Einstein met Tagore (2007)

Joel B. Green is Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary , Wilmore, Kentucky. In addition to earning the PhD in New Testament studies from the University of Aberdeen, Professor Green has done graduate work in neuroscience at the University of Kentucky. A member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, he has published 25 books and scores of essays in scholarly journals, academic symposia, and for the general church. Two of Dr. Green’s books have been included in Christianity Today’s “Top 25” Book Awards, and a third was chosen as “Book of the Year” by the Academy of Parish Clergy in 2001. He is editor of Journal of Theological Interpretation, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including New Testament Studies, Theology and Science, and Science & Christian Belief. An ordained elder in The United Methodist Church, Dr. Green has pastored churches in Texas, Scotland, and Northern California.

In keeping with his interdisciplinary interests, Professor Green is currently working on projects related to the interface of biblical anthropology and the natural sciences and to theological interpretation of Scripture. He has longer term interests in the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, the significance of the death of Jesus, and the Catholic Letters of the New Testament.

Professor Green began his formal involvement in the science-religion field through his participation in two interdisciplinary projects — “Portraits of Human Nature” and “Mind, Brain, and Personhood: An Inquiry from Scientific and Theological Perspectives” — both funded by The Templeton Foundation. This led to further graduate work in neuroscience at the University of Kentucky, to a new course at Asbury Theological Seminary on “The Human Person: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” to his organizing a symposium on “Minds, Souls, Persons,” and to his lecturing on related topics in the United States and New Zealand. He has edited What about the Soul? Neuroscience and Christian Anthropology (Abingdon) and coedited In Search of the Soul: Four Views of the Mind-Body Problem (InterVarsity).

 

Recent Selected Publications in Science and Religion

• Brown, Warren S., Nancey Murphy, and H. Newton Maloney, eds. Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998.
• Green, Joel B., ed. What About the Soul? Neuroscience and Christian Anthropology. Nashville: Abingdon, 2004.
• Green, Joel B., and Stuart L. Palmer, eds. In Search of the Soul: Four Views of the Mind-Body Problem. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2005.
• Gregersen, Niels Henrik, Willem B. Drees, and Ulf Görman, eds. The Human Person in Science and Theology . Issues in Science and Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000.
• Jeeves, Malcolm, ed. Human Nature. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2006.
• Jeeves, Malcolm A., ed. From Cells to Souls: Changing Portraits of Human Nature. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004.
• Russell, Robert John, Nancey Murphy, Theo C. Meyering, and Michael A. Arbib, eds. Neuroscience and the Person. Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, 4. Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory, 1999.
• Wright, John P., and Paul Potter, eds. Psyche and Soma: Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind-Body Problem From Antiquity to Enlightenment. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000.

Prof. Nidhal Guessoum is an Algerian astrophysicist who received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at San Diego and spent two years as a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. His research focuses on gamma radiation, mainly from the Milky Way Galaxy, but lately from other sources in the Universe as well; he has had an ongoing collaboration with colleagues at the Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements in Toulouse, France. For the past decade or so, he has been at the American University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), where he chaired the Physics Department for a few years and presided over the Faculty Senate.

In addition to his technical papers, he has published dozens of articles on general science issues, edited a conference proceedings volume, and co-authored two general public books, The Determination of Lunar Crescent Months and the Islamic Calendar (two editions) and The Story of the Universe (three editions), both in Arabic. Lately, Prof. Guessoum has been active in the area of the Islam-Science interface. He has recently finished a book on Islam, modern science, and Western thought.

Professor Guessoum has been at the forefront of astrophysical research on the electron-positron annihilation process in the Galaxy, the emission coming mainly from the central regions. With the data from the INTEGRAL gamma-ray satellite, he and co-workers have helped improve our understanding of what has been a longstanding puzzle, namely the origin of the 10^43 positrons produced and annihilated each second. In parallel to this, Guessoum has pioneered the study of nuclear gamma-ray lines produced outside of the solar system, an emission which is undetectable at our present technological capacity but which could be within grasp of the next generation of instruments. Finally, he has lately ventured in the gamma-ray burst domain, which in the past decade or more has become one of the most stunning phenomena of the cosmos and has yet to be explained in a satisfactory manner.

Professor Guessoum has long had an interest in the questions at the interface between science and religion in general, and science and Islam in particular. His co-authored book on the “Story of the Universe” featured chapters on humanity’s old historical, cultural, and religious views of the cosmos, and he has often lectured on the historical and philosophical nature of the relation between science (in its ancient and modern versions) and Islam. In recent years, that interest has been molded into a serious endeavour; Guessoum was a member of Paris-based “Science and Religion in Islam” project; he took an active part in the 2008 conference on “Science, Cultures and the Future of Humanity”, which was held in Doha, Qatar; he has also published a number of articles and book reviews in the field.  His most recent book is Islam's Quantum Question:Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science (I.B.Tauris 2010).

Recent Science Publications

• “Positron Annihilation on PAHs in the ISM”, N. Guessoum, W. Gillard, and P. Jean, recently submitted.
• “Copernicus and Ibn al-Shatir: Does the Copernican Revolution Have Islamic Roots?”, N. Guessoum, The Observatory, 2008.
• “Microquasars as Sources of Positron Annihilation Radiation”, N. Guessoum, P. Jean, and N. Prantzos, Astronomy & Astrophysics, A&A, 457, 753 (2006).
• “First View of the All-Sky Distribution of Positronium Annihilation Continuum Emission with SPI/INTEGRAL”, G. Weidenspointner et al., Astronomy & Astrophysics, 450, 1013 (2006).
• “Ion acceleration and positron production and annihilation in solar flares”, N. Guessoum, Proc. of IAU Symposium 233, vol. 2, eds. V. Bothmer & A. A. Hady, pp. 377-380, 2006.
• “Relevance of slow positron beam research to astrophysical studies of positron interactions and annihilation in the interstellar medium”, N. Guessoum, P. Jean, W. Gillard, ApSS, 252, 3352 (2006).
• “Spectral Analysis of the Galactic e+e- Annihilation Emission”, P. Jean, et al., Astronomy & Astrophysics, 445, 579 (2005).
• “The Lives and Deaths of Positrons in the Interstellar Medium”, N. Guessoum, P. Jean, W. Gillard, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 436, 171 (2005).
• “Detecting 2.223 MeV Line Emission from X-Ray Novae with INTEGRAL”, N. Guessoum & P. Jean, Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplements), 132C, 396-399 (2004).

Recent Science and Religion Publications

• “The Qur’an, Science, and the (related) Contemporary Muslim Discourse”, Zygon, 2008.
• “Progress in Solving the Problem of the Crescent-based Islamic Calendar”, Proc. of 1st Emirates (International) Astronomical Conference, eds. N. Guessoum & M. Odeh, pp. 77-86, 2007.
• “Émergence : Le nouveau paradigme est-il doté d’une connotation philosophique ? Un commentaire du livre ‘A Different Universe’ de Robert B. Laughlin”, PhiloScience, 2007.
• “L’Univers a-t-il été créé pour l’homme ? Les réponses de la science moderne et de l’Islam”, http://www.oumma.com/spip.php?article2146 , September 2006.
• “Science and Religion in Dan Brown’s ‘Angels and Demons’,” http://www.science-islam.net/ article.php3?id_article=632&lang=en.
• “A Century of Religion-Science-Philosophy Debates”, Review of Larry Witham’s ‘The Measure of God’, 2005, http://www.science-islam.net/article.php3?id_article=583&lang=en .
• “La cosmologie islamique peut-elle être moderne?” (with K. Meziane), Etudes Orientales, vol. 23/24, 2005, p. 145.
• “Fine-Tuning, Principe Anthropique et Multivers: Perspectives Islamiques sur une Question Controversée”, Etudes Orientales, vol. 23/24, 2005, p. 126.

John Gummer began his schooling at Holy Trinity C of E Primary School in Brompton from where he went to the King's School in Rochester. He was an Exhibitioner at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read History, was President of the Cambridge Union and Chairman of the Conservative Association.

When elected to serve as a Member of Parliament his ministerial career began with his appointment as a Conservative Whip and then as an Employment Minister. He served as Minister for Health and Safety and Minister for Local Government.

John became a Cabinet Minister, under both Margaret Thatcher and John Major, serving as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food and then as Secretary of State for the Environment. He has had sixteen years of ministerial experience - one of only five people in the last 200 years who have held so long a tenure.

He played a vital part in the negotiations for the Uruguay whilst chairing the Council of Agriculture Ministers. He was instrumental in bringing environmental considerations to the heart of British Agricultural policy and then to the wider European CAP.

John was the UK Environmental Secretary from 1993-1997 where he played a key role in the "Convention on Climate Change" meetings held in Berlin and Geneva. The Secretary-General of the United Nations named him as one of a small Committee of Distinguished Persons advising on Habitat II (UN Conference on Human Settlements). In 1996, He was also elected Chairman of the Environmental Committee of the OECD by his fellow ministers. Friends of the Earth called him the best Environment Secretary they had ever had. After his term as Secretary of State, John was awarded the Medal of Honour by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - the UK's largest environmental organisation. He is the only Government Minister to have ever received this award.

John Gummer is first and foremost a constituency MP and much enjoys that part of Parliamentary life. In that role he is campaigning against plans to reduce the level of coastal protection along our 74 miles of coast. At the centre of his concern at the moment is the improvement of NHS services in Suffolk. He is also lobbying for an A12 bypass for the villages of Farnham and Stratford St Andrew.

John writes regularly for the Catholic Herald, Country Life , Estates Gazette and other magazines with a pronounced emphasis on environmental issues. He has written pieces on social issues, politics and religion. He and his wife, Penelope, and four children: Benedict, Felix, Leonora, and Cordelia, live near Debenham.

Pam Hanley is currently undertaking a part-time PhD which looks at the inter-relationship of science and religion in school, focusing on the teaching of the origin of life. Her ‘day job’ is research fellow at the Institute for Effective Education, University of York, where she works mainly on the development and evaluation of literacy and numeracy programmes for primary schools. She is also involved in a systematic review of research into effective science programmes. Previously, she worked on an evaluation of 21st Century Science at the University of Southampton, and also conducted assessments of teacher professional development for the Science Learning Centre South East. Before that she worked in a variety of jobs, including as a researcher for the Co-op and the television regulator, and as a journalist on Which? Magazine.

James Hannam has a physics degree from the University of Oxford and a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge.  He writes on the pre-modern and early modern history of science and religion.  His first book God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science was published by Icon in 2009 and his articles have appeared in several publications including the Spectator, the Mail on Sunday and History Today.  He has also contributed to various academic journals.

He is currently working on a book on the destruction of England’s medieval heritage during the period of the Reformation.

Dr Hannam is a member of the Science and Religion Forum and the British Society for the History of Science.

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

   

Prof. Michał Heller graduated from the Catholic University of Lublin, where he earned a master's degree in philosophy in 1965 and a Ph.D. in cosmology in 1966.
After beginning his teaching career at Tarnów, he joined the faculty of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in 1972 and was appointed to a full professorship in 1985. The recipient of an honorary degree from the Technical University of Cracow, he has been a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and a visiting scientist at Belgium’s University of Liège, the University of Oxford, the University of Leicester, Ruhr University in Germany, The Catholic University of America, and the University of Arizona among others. Dr. Heller is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

His current research is concerned with the singularity problem in general relativity and the use of noncommutative geometry in seeking the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics. He has published nearly 200 scientific papers not only in general relativity and relativistic cosmology, but also in philosophy and the history of science and science and theology and is the author of more than 20 books. In his volume, Is Physics an Art? (Biblos, 1998), he writes about mathematics as the language of science and also explores such humanistic issues as beauty as a criterion of truth, creativity, and transcendence.

In March 2008, Heller was awarded the $1.6 million USD (£1,000,000) Templeton Prize for his extensive philosophical and scientific probing of "big questions." His works have sought to reconcile the "known scientific world with the unknowable dimensions of God."

Dr. Richard S. Hess is Earl S. Kalland Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Denver Seminary in Denver, Colorado. He is the editor of the Bulletin for Biblical Research and the Denver Journal: An Online Review of Current Biblical and Theological Studies. He edits the Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement Series and co-edits the Septuagint Commentary Series. A Ph.D. graduate from Hebrew Union College, Dr. Hess has done postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, the University of Cambridge, Tyndale House, the University of Sheffield, the Australian Institute of Archaeology in Melbourne, and Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Dr. Hess has authored seven volumes, edited twelve books, contributed to five Bible translations, published more than one hundred research articles, and written several hundred book reviews and dictionary articles.

Having published studies on Genesis, Joshua, Song of Songs, and most recently Leviticus, Dr. Hess is writing commentaries on the biblical books of Genesis, Joshua, 1 and 2 Kings, and Job. He is also working on a graduate level Old Testament introduction and editing several studies on War in the Bible, Early Israel, and the history of Israel. In preparation for publication are also studies on Late Bronze Age ethnic geography of Canaan, literacy in ancient Israel, Luwian hieroglyphic texts, Amarna cuneiform texts, and the biblical accounts of Solomon's Temple.

Dr. Hess has evaluated research proposals and manuscripts for the Israel Science Foundation, the American Schools of Oriental Research, the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, and Science and Christian Belief, as well as numerous biblical studies journals and publishers. His work in science has focused on the archaeology of the ancient Near East with special attention to written artifacts such as the West Semitic archives of the Late Bronze Age, and on the relationship of these texts to the Bible (especially Genesis and early Israel).

Books authored

• "Leviticus," in The Expositor's Bible Commentary Revised Editon 1: Genesis–Leviticus, T. Longman III and D. E. Garland eds., Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008, pp. 563-826.
• Israelite Religions: An Archaeological and Biblical Survey, Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007. 432 pages with 44 photos and maps.
• Song of Songs, Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms; Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005. 285 pages.
• Joshua. An Introduction and Commentary, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries; Leicester and Downers Grove: IVP, 1996. 320 pages with 9 maps. Translations have appeared in Chinese, French, Portugese, and Italian.
• Studies in the Personal Names of Genesis 1-11, Alter Orient und Altes Testament Band 234, Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1993. xx + 200 pages.
• Amarna Personal Names, American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertation Series 9; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1993. xii + 292 pages.

Books co-authored

• Names in the Study of Biblical History: David, YHWH Names, and the Role of Personal Names, co-authored with Francis I. Andersen; Buried History Monograph 2; Melbourne: Australian Institute of Archaeology, 2007.

Some recently edited volumes

• Issues in Early Israelite Historiography, co-ed. with G. Klingbeil and P. Ray, Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement 3, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2008.
• War in the Bible and Terrorism in the 21st Century, co-ed. with E. Martens, Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement 2, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2008.
• Issues in Bible Translation, comprising The Bible Translator 56/3 (July 2005), co-ed. with P. Towner

(Other) Science and Religion Publications

• "I Studied Inscriptions from before the Flood": Ancient Near Eastern, Linguistic and Literary Approaches to Genesis 1-11, co-editor with David Tsumura, Sources for Biblical and Theological Study 4; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1994. xvi + 480 pages.
• "Genesis 1-2 and Recent Studies of Ancient Texts," Science and Christian Belief 7 (1995) 141-149.

Revd Margot R Hodson is Vicar of Haddenham, Cuddington, Kingsey and Aston Sandford in Buckinghamshire, and was previously Chaplain of Jesus College, Oxford. She is a Director of the John Ray Initiative and their representative on the board of A Rocha UK. Margot teaches environmental ethics at Oxford Brookes University and is married to Dr Martin J Hodson.

Recent publications

• Hodson, M.J. and Hodson, M.R. (2008), 'Cherishing the Earth, How to care for God’s Creation', Oxford: Monarch.
• Weaver, J. and Hodson, M.R. eds (2007), 'The Place of Environmental Theology: a guide for seminaries, colleges and universities', Oxford: Whitley Trust, & Prague: IBTS
• Hodson, M.R. (2007), “Creative harmony: Isaiah’s vision of a sustainable future”, in R.J.Berry, ed, 'When Enough is Enough, A Christian Framework for Environmental Sustainability', Leicester: IVP, p.169-177.
• Hodson, M.R. (2004), 'Environmental Christianity: insights from our Jewish Heritage', JRI Briefing Papers, No. 13, Cheltenham: The John Ray Initiative.
• Hodson, M.R. (2000), 'A Feast of Seasons', London: Monarch.
• Hodson, M.R. (1998), 'Jerusalem’s Story', St Albans: Olive Press.

The Revd Dr Rodney Holder is Course Director of the Faraday Institute and was formerly Priest in Charge of the Parish of the Claydons, Diocese of Oxford. Dr Holder read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and researched for a D.Phil. in astrophysics at Christ Church, Oxford. He remained at Oxford for a further two years as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Astrophysics researching accretion of intergalactic gas by the galaxy. After 14 years working for UK Ministry of Defence clients as an operational research consultant with EDS (formerly Scicon), he returned to Oxford, and took a first class degree in theology in 1996. Completing his ministerial training the following year, Dr. Holder then worked for four years as a curate in South Warwickshire , followed by a seven month sabbatical period as chaplain of the English Church in Heidelberg, before appointment to the Claydons in 2002.

Dr Holder explored ways in which science and faith may complement each other in 'Nothing But Atoms and Molecules?' (1993, reprinted 2008). In his latest book, 'God, the Multiverse, and Everything', Dr Holder examines the fine-tunings of natural law that were necessary for life to evolve in our universe and uses Bayes' theorem, a classic tool for determining probability, to assess their metaphysical significance. His 1998 paper on miracles won a Templeton Foundation Prize as an exemplary paper in humility theology. Dr Holder is Reviews Editor of Science and Christian Belief and is on the national committee of Christians in Science. He is a member of the International Society for Science and Religion, the Society of Ordained Scientists, and the Science and Religion Forum, and is a Bye Fellow of St Edmund's College.

Recent selected publications in science and religion

• Holder, R. D. (2011), ‘God and the Multiverse: A Response to Stephen Hawking’, Faith and Thought 51, 3-17.
• Holder, R. D. (2009), 'Beyond Science: Answering the Boundary Questions', in A. M. Herzberg (ed.), Statistics, Science and Public Policy XIII: Responsibility, Prosperity and Culture. Proceedings of the Conference on Statistics, Science and Public Policy held at Herstmonceux Castle, Hailsham, UK, April 16-19, 2008, 79-84. 
• Holder, R. D. (2009), 'Thomas Torrance: "Retreat to Commitment" or a New Place for Natural Theology?', Theology and Science 7(3), 275-296, www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a912448732 
• Holder, R. D. (2009), 'Science and Religion in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer', Zygon 44(1), 115-132.
• Holder, R. D. (2008), Nothing But Atoms and Molecules? Probing the limits of science, Third Edition (Cambridge: The Faraday Institute) (First Edition, Crowborough: Monarch Publications, 1993).
• Holder, R. D. (2008), 'Modern Science and the Interpretation of Genesis: Can We Learn from Dietrich Bonhoeffer?', Theology and Science 6(2), 213-231, www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1474-6700&volume=6&issue=2&spage=213 
• Holder, R. D. (2007), 'Creation and the Sciences in the Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg', Communio Viatorum XLIX, 210-253.
• Holder, R. D. (2006), 'Fine-tuning and the Multiverse', Think 12, 49-60.
• Holder, R. D. (2005), ‘God and Differing Interpretations of Quantum Theory—Response to Paul’, Science and Christian Belief 17(2), 177-185.
• Holder, R. D. (2004), God, the Multiverse, and Everything: Modern Cosmology and the Argument from Design (Aldershot, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate).
• Holder, R. D. (2002), ‘Fine-tuning, Multiple Universes and Theism’, Noûs 36, 295-312.
• Holder, R. D. (2001), ‘The realization of infinitely many universes in cosmology’, Religious Studies 37, 343-350.
• Holder, R. D. (2001), ‘Karl Barth and the Legitimacy of Natural Theology’, Themelios 26, 22-37.
• Holder, R. D. (2001), ‘Fine-Tuning, Many Universes and Design’, Science and Christian Belief 13, 5-24.
• Holder, R. D. (1999), ‘Multiple Universes as an Explanation for Fine-Tuning’, Science and Christian Belief 11, 65-66.
• Holder, R. D. (1998), ‘Hume on Miracles: Bayesian Interpretation, Multiple Testimony, and the Existence of God’, Brit. J. Phil. Sci. 49, 49-65.

Photo: Nigel Bovey/The War Cry
 

Paul Hopkins has been working and teaching in various places from primary to HE and in various subjects from physics to religion for the last 15 or so years. He believes we should be educating children into an open conversation with the universe in all its forms and asking why and how a lot more than what, who and when.

Michael Hoskin started academic life in Classics, and switched to mathematics on entering London University. In 1952 he came to Peterhouse for a PhD in algebraic geometry, in which his two fellow-students have since become Sir Michael Atiyah, OM, FRS, and Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS. Disillusioned in consequence with mathematics despite being elected a Research Fellow of Jesus College in 1966, the following year he applied for a newly-established Lectureship in History of Science at Leicester, and was appointed despite knowing nothing about the subject.

Two years later he was appointed to the corresponding lectureship in Cambridge, and helped build up what is now the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. In 1965 he was invited to become a foundation Fellow of St Edmund's, and was for five minutes the only Fellow. He served as Vice-Master, Senior Tutor, and secretary of the Trustees.

In 1969 he was invited by Churchill College to build the proposed new Archives Centre. He returned to St Edmund's in 2002 on election as Emeritus Fellow. Michael Hoskin is primarily an historian of stellar astronomy with a particular interest in the Herschel family. In 1970 he founded the Journal for the History of Astronomy and has edited it ever since. He also works in astronomy in prehistory, and has personally measured the orientations of some two thousand European and African dolmens. The International Astronomical Union has designated asteroid 12223 as 12223 Minor Planet HOSKIN in his honour.

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

Elaine Howard Ecklund is an assistant professor of sociology at Rice  University, where she is also a Rice scholar at the Baker Institute for  Public Policy focusing on science and technology policy. In addition  Ecklund is director of the Program on Religion and Public Life at the Institute for Urban Research. Her work focuses on the ways science and religion intersect with other life spheres, such as public life, immigration and gender. Ecklund has received major grants from the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation and John Templeton Foundation. Her research articles have been covered in USA Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nature, The Washington Times, Physics.org, Newsweek, The Washington Post, CNN.com, MSNBC.com, Xinhua News, and other national and international news media outlets. With a core interest in translating academic research to a broader public, she has written essays and op-eds for The Scientist, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, USA Today, and Science and Religion Today.

Ecklund teaches courses at Rice University on the role of science in society.  She is currently working on a study of influences on science careers (with Anne Lincoln of Southern Methodist University) and another on cross-national approaches to science ethics (with Kirstin Matthews and Steven Lewis of Rice University). Ecklund has recently completed a study of how US scientists at top universities understand religion, spirituality and ethics. The resulting book, Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think (Oxford University Press) on the religious and faith lives (or lack thereof) of university scientists, challenges misconceptions about the religion and science debates.

Ecklund serves on governing boards of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Association for the Sociology of Religion, and the Religion Section of the American Sociological Association. She received a doctorate in sociology from Cornell University in 2004.

Selected Science-Religion Publications

• Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Science vs. Religion: What scientists really think. (OUP 2010)
• Ecklund, Elaine Howard, and Jerry Z. Park, (2009). Conflict between Religion and Science among Academic Scientists? Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 48(2):276-292.
• Cadge, Wendy, Elaine Howard Ecklund, and Nicholas Short, (2009). Constructions of Religion and Spirituality in the Daily Boundary Work of Pediatric Physicians. Social Problems, 56(4):702-721.
• Cadge, Wendy, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, (2009). Prayers in the Clinic: How do Pediatric Physicians Respond? Southern Medical Journal, 102(12): 1218-1221.
• Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Jerry Z. Park, and Phil Todd Veliz, (2008). Secularization and Religious Change among Elite Scientists: A Cross-Cohort Comparison. Social Forces, 86(4): 1805-1840.
• Catlin, Elizabeth A., Wendy Cadge, Elaine Howard Ecklund, (2008). The Spiritual and Religious Identities, Beliefs, and Practices of Academic Pediatricians in the United States. Academic Medicine, 83: 1146-1152.
• Ecklund, Elaine Howard, (2008). Religion and Spirituality among Scientists. Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds, 7(1):12-15.
• Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Wendy Cadge, Elizabeth A. Gage, Elizabeth A. Catlin, (2007). The Religious and Spiritual Beliefs and Practices of Academic Pediatric Oncologists in the U.S., Journal of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, 29(11): 746-742. (Reply Commentary, Religion, Spirituality, and the Practice of Pediatric Oncology, by Gary A. Walco, 29(11): 733-735).
• Ecklund, Elaine Howard and Christopher Scheitle, (2007). Religion among Academic Scientists: Distinctions, Disciplines, and Demographics. Social Problems, 54(2):289-307. *Portions re-printed with permission in Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction, 2nd Edition. University of California Press, by Eugenie Scott

Editorials and Essays about Religion and Science

• Ecklund, Elaine Howard, (2010). Houston Should Lead Talks, Science and Religion, The Houston Chronicle, April.
• Ecklund, Elaine Howard, (2010). Scientists in the Pews, The Washington Post, April.
• Ecklund, Elaine Howard and Conrad Hackett, (2010). But for the Grace of Genes, The Scientist, April, 24 (4): 29.
• Ecklund, Elaine Howard, (2009). Invited essay, Translation Problems: How Scientists Misunderstand Religious People, Science and Religion Today, Fall 2009, Religion and Science Series.

Mike Hulme is the Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK, which is headquartered in the School of Environmental Sciences at UEA. He has worked at UEA since 1988, following a lectureship in geography at the University of Salford. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers and over 30 book chapters on climate change topics, together with over 220 reports and popular articles. He has prepared climate scenarios and reports for the UK Government (including the UKCIP98 and UKCIP02 scenarios), the European Commission, UNEP, UNDP, WWF-International and the IPCC. Mike was co-ordinating Lead Author for the chapter on 'Climate scenario development' for the Third Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as well as a contributing author for several other chapters.

Mike is leading the EU Integrated Project ADAM (Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies) during the period 2006-2009, which comprises a 26-member European research consortium contributing research to the development of EU climate policy. He edits the journal Global Environmental Change with Neil Adger and Katrina Brown. He has advised numerous companies and non-governmental organisations about climate change and its implications. He was jointly awarded the Hugh Robert Mill Medal in 1995 by the Royal Meteorological Society for work on rainfall variability and I delivered the 2005 Queen's Lecture in Berlin. A frequent speaker about climate change at academic, professional and public events, and for the media (he wrote a monthly climate column for The Guardian newspaper for 12 years).

Significant Recent Publications

• Dessai,S., Lu,X. and Hulme,M. (2005) Limited sensitivity analysis of regional climate change probabilities for the 21st century Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D19108, journal doi:10.1029/2005JD005919.
• Dessai,S. and Hulme,M. (2004) Does climate adaptation policy need probabilities? Climate Policy 4, 107-128.
• Hulme,M. (2003) Abrupt climate change: can society cope? Phil. Trans. Royal Society London (A), 361, 2001-2021.
• Osborn,T.J. and Hulme,M. (2002) Evidence for trends in heavy rainfall events over the UK Phil. Transactions of the Royal Society (A), 360, 1313-1325.
• Hulme,M., Jenkins,G.J., Lu,X., Turnpenny,J.R., Mitchell,T.D., Jones,R.G., Lowe,J., Murphy,J.M., Hassell,D., Boorman,P., McDonald,R. and Hill,S. (2002) Climate change scenarios for the UK: the UKCIP02 scientific report Tyndall Centre, UEA, Norwich, UK, 112pp.
• Mearns,L.O., Hulme,M., Carter,T.R., Lal,M., Leemans,R. and Whetton,P.H. (2001) Climate scenario development pp.739-768 in, Climate change 2001: the scientific basis (eds.) Houghton,J.T., Ding,Y., Griggs,D.J., Noguer,M., van der Linden,P.J., Dai,X., Maskell,K. and Johnson,C.A. (eds.) (2001) Contribution of WG1 to the IPCC Third Assessment, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 944pp.

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..
• Humphreys, C.J. - "The Mystery of the Last Supper: Reconstructing the Final Days of Jesus", 244 pages, Cambridge University Press, UK 2011.

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

Cherryl Hunt was a molecular biologist for some years before completing a masters in theology and then working on a three year AHRC funded project concerning the uses of the Bible in environmental ethics (http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/theology/research/projects/uses/). The publications emerging from this project include a co-authored monograph (D.G. Horrell, C. Hunt & C. Southgate Greening Paul: Re-reading the Apostle in an Age of Ecological Crisis, Waco, TX: Baylor, 2010) and a co-edited collection of essays, (D.G. Horrell, C. Hunt, C. Southgate & F. Stavrakopoulou Ecological Hermeneutics: Biblical, Historical, and Theological Perspectives London/New York: T&T Clark, 2010). Cherryl is currently engaged in a research project funded by Bible Society, to evaluate the progress and outcomes of their Pathfinder programme, which is itself designed to promote a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Bible, resulting in growth in faith and a new level of cultural engagement. She also has interests in other areas of Christian reflection on bioethics, including the status of the early human embryo, stem cell research and human enhancement.

Ian H. Hutchinson (born 1951) is Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and former Head of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. He holds an M.A. in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the Australian National University. In addition to over 160 scientific journal articles, Dr. Hutchinson is widely known for his standard monograph: Principles of Plasma Diagnostics, whose second edition was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002. He has served on numerous national fusion review panels and editorial boards, and as editor in chief of the journal Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society, and was the 2008 Chairman of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society. He has been married to Fran for 35 years, has two adult children, and is an enthusiastic choral singer, squash player, and fly-fisherman.

His primary research interest is plasma physics, especially the magnetic confinement of plasmas (ionized gases): seeking to enable fusion reactions, the energy source of the stars, to be used for practical energy production. He and his MIT team designed, built and operate the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, an international experimental facility he directed for 15 years, whose magnetically confined plasmas, with temperatures reaching beyond 50 million degrees Celsius, are prototypical of a future fusion reactor. His personal scientific contributions span many areas of plasma physics, including pioneering experimental measurements of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities and radiation from energetic electrons, theoretical and computational investigations of plasma flow past embedded objects that establish how to measure plasma flow with probes, and observations of spontaneous toka- mak plasma rotation. He has also made major contributions to the development of plasma measurement and control techniques.

Throughout his professional science career, Dr. Hutchinson has been active in speaking to university and church groups on the relationship of science and Christianity, providing leadership in student and faculty conferences under the auspices of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, and the Veritas Forum. He founded the Faith of Great Scientists Seminar at MIT, which examines how the Christian faith of so many great scientists of history influenced their science and how their science influenced their faith. He has assisted the American Association for the Advancement of Science in their Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion. He has recently completed a book-length study of scientism, its influence in the academy and society, and its role in the faith-science discussion. He is a fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation.

Selected Scientific Publications

• I.H. Hutchinson, "Magnetic Probe Investigation of the Disruptive Instability in Tokamak LT-3," Phys. Rev. Lett. 37, 338 (1976).

• I.H. Hutchinson, M. Malacarne, P. Noonan, and D. Brotherton-Radcliffe, "The Structure of Magnetic Fluctuations in the HBTX-1A Reversed Field Pinch," Nucl. Fusion 24, 59 (1984).

• I.H. Hutchinson, "Ion Collection by Probes in Strong Magnetic Fields with Plasma Flow," Phys. Rev. 37, 4358 (1988).

• I.H. Hutchinson, R. Boivin, F. Bombarda, et al., (C-Mod Group), "First Results from Alcator C-Mod," Physics of Plasmas 1, 1511 (1994).

• I.H. Hutchinson, J.E. Rice, R.S. Granetz, J.A. Snipes, "Self-Acceleration of a Tokamak Plasma during Ohmic H Mode," Phys. Rev. Lett., 84 No. 15 (2000) 3330.

• I.H. Hutchinson, "Oblique ion collection in the drift approximation: How magnetized Mach probes really work", Phys. Plasmas, 15, 123503, (2008).

Selected Science and Faith Publications

• I. H. Hutchinson, "Faith's failure of nerve", Cross Currents: Religion and Intellectual Life, 40, 213-227 (1990)

• D. Hastings, I. Hutchinson, "The Two-Edged Sword of Technology," re:generation 2, 27 (1996).

• I.H. Hutchinson, "Faith in the Machine", Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, 52, 260 (2000)

• I.H. Hutchinson "Plasma Fusion Research and the Technical and Spiritual Challenges of Sustainable Energy", American Vacuum Society 48th International Symposium, San Francisco (Invited Paper) p71 (2001).

• I.H. Hutchinson, "Science Christian and Natural", Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, 55, 72 (2003)

• I.H. Hutchinson, "Warfare and Wedlock: redeeming the faith-science relationship", Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, 59, 2, 91 (2007).

Rob Iliffe is Professor of Intellectual History and the History of Science in the Department of History at the University of Sussex. He has published a number of articles on early modern history and the history of science, and has written the Very Short Introduction to Newton (Oxford University Press 2007). He has edited the Eighteenth Century Biographies of Newton (Pickering 2006). He is Editorial director of the online Newton Project, director of the AHRC Newton Theological Papers Project and is also editor of the journal History of Science. Prof. Iliffe's main research interests include: the history of science 1550-1800; the role of science and technology in the 'Rise of the West'; techno-scientific and other roots of the current environmental crisis; historical interactions between science and religion; the theological and scientific work of Isaac Newton; and the implications for academic work posed by the increasing digitisation of the scholarly infrastructure.

C. J. Isham is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College, London. He is well known for his work on quantum gravity and on interdisciplinary studies in the area of science and religion.

Dr Jaeger is lecturer and academic dean at the Institut Biblique de Nogent-sur-Marne, an interdenominational Evangelical Bible College near Paris which trains pastors and other Church workers at an undergraduate level, and lay people in extension programs. After completing postgraduate studies in physics and mathematics — including research in theoretical solid state physics — at the University of Cologne (Germany) and in theology at the Seminary for Evangelical Theology in Vaux-sur-Seine (France), Dr Jaegar obtained her Ph.D. in philosophy at the Sorbonne on the possible links between the concept of law of nature and religious presuppositions, under the supervision of Michel Bitbol (CNRS, France). Since 2000, Dr Jaeger has had several short study leaves in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge, where she is also an associate member of St. Edmund’s College.

Since 2005, she holds a four-year research professorship in philosophy of science and contemporary thought (jointly based at the Seminary for Evangelical Theology in Vaux-sur-Seine and the Institut Biblique de Nogent-sur-Marne), concentrating on the training of religious leaders to develop the way they interact with the philosophies of atheism and scientism. Her current research interests are natural order, the epistemological and ethical implications of the doctrine of creation, the theology of science and our understanding of human persons in the light of current neuroscience and philosophy. She is a member of the Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians (FEET), the Tyndale Fellowship and of Christians in Science (CiS); she is a founding member of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences and the Réseau des Scientifiques Evangéliques. She is the author of five books and several articles on the relation between Christianity and the natural sciences.

Since 2005, Dr Jaeger has held a three-year research professorship in philosophy of science and contemporary thought (jointly based at the Seminary for Evangelical Theology in Vaux-sur-Seine and the Institut Biblique de Nogent-sur-Marne) She is a member of the Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians (FEET), the Tyndale Fellowship and of Christians in Science (CiS); she is also a founding member of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences.

Recent science – religion publications

• Jaeger L (2000) Pour une philosophie chrétienne des sciences, Nogent-sur-Marne/Cléon d’Andran: Éditions de l’Institut Biblique de Nogent/Excelsis, 128p. (2nd edition 2006, 122 p.; German translation: Wissenschaft ohne Gott? Zum Verhältnis zwischen christlichem Glauben und Wissenschaft, Bonn, Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, 2007, 121 p.; Spanish translation 2009, in press).
• Jaeger L (2005) "Cosmic Order and Divine Word", Churchman CXVIII, 2004, p.47-51; also published in Spiritual Information: 100 Perspectives, ed. Charles L. Harper Jr., Philadelphia (PA), Templeton Foundation Press, , p.151-154.
• Jaeger L (2006) "Einstein und die kosmische Religion", Philosophia naturalis XLIII, p.313-327.
• Jaeger L (2007) Lois de la nature et raisons du cœur: les convictions religieuses dans le débat épistémologique contemporain, Bern, Peter Lang, 360p.
• Jaeger L (2007) Vivre dans un monde créé, Marne-la-Vallée/Nogent-sur-Marne, Farel/ Éditions de l’Institut Biblique de Nogent, 123p.
• Jaeger L (2008) Ce que les cieux racontent: la science à la lumière de la création, Nogent-sur-Marne/Cléon d’Andran, Éditions de l’Institut Biblique de Nogent/Excelsis, 246p.
• Jaeger L (2008) "Lee Smolin : les lois issues de l’évolution", Revue philosophique de Louvain CVI, p.372-386.
• Jaeger L (2008) "The idea of law in science and religion", Science and Christian Belief XX, p.133-146.
• Jaeger L (2009) "The challenge of modern science to Thomistic ontology", Faith XL, p.7-11.
• Jaeger L (2009) "Baptiser Darwin ? : Le pasteur et la théorie de l'évolution", Cahiers de l'École Pastorale 71, p. 3-20.
• Jaeger L (2009 In Press) "La théorie de l'évolution: quelques considérations apologétiques", Théologie Évangélique VIII.

Selected recent publications

• Jaeger L (1991) “The Network Model and its Relation to Classical Percolation in Quantum Hall Systems”, Journal of Physics, Condensed Matter III, p.2441-2449.
• Jaeger L (1991) “Resonant Transmission through a Double-point Contact Device in High Magnetic Field”, Solid State Communications LXXVIII, 3, p.215-217.
• Jaeger L (2002) “Le rapport entre la nature de Dieu et sa volonté dans l’Institution chrétienne”, European Journal of Theology XI, p.109-118.
• Jaeger L (2002) “Prêcher aujourd’hui l’espérance au-delà de la mort”, Théologie Évangélique I, p.47-60.
  Jaeger L (2002) “Dieu comme seule source de la connaissance — l’apologétique de Cornelius Van Til”, Théologie Évangélique I, p.27-46.
• Jaeger L (2003) “Diverses formes de nécessité dans L’Institution chrétienne”, Revue Réformée LIV, p.54-69.
• Jaeger L (2002) “Humean Supervenience and Best-system Laws”, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science XVI, p.141-155.
• Jaeger L (2006) "Bas van Fraassen on Religion and Knowledge: Is there a

  third Way

  beyond foundationalist Illusion and bridled Irrationality?", American Catholic Philosophy Quarterly LXXX, p.581-602.
• Jaeger L (2007) "Entre modernité et post-modernité — faut-il réinventer l'Église ?", Revue Réformée LVIII, 4, 2007, p. 33-46.

Mary James is Professor and Associate Director of Research at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education. She is Vice President (President Elect) of the British Educational Research Association. From 2005 to 2008 she held a Chair of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she was Deputy Director of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Teaching and Learning Research Program – the largest investment in educational research and capacity building ever in the UK. She had responsibility for supporting its 22 school-based projects and was herself the director of one of the largest of these projects: ‘Learning How to Learn – in classrooms, schools and networks’. Mary was a member of the UK Assessment Reform Group from 1992 to 2010, and was the overseas member of the Curriculum Development Council, of the Hong Kong Government’s Education Bureau. She was founding editor of The Curriculum Journal and serves, or has served, on the editorial or boards of Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability and Assessment in Education. Her research interests are in the interactions among curriculum, assessment, pedagogy, and their implications for teachers’ professional development, school leadership and education policy. This was stimulated by her ten years experience teaching RE, English and social studies in secondary schools.

Gareth Jones is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and International) at the University of Otago, New Zealand, New Zealand, where he has been Professor of Anatomy and Structural Biology since 1983. Prior to this he held positions in the University of Western Australia, and University College London. He is a Visiting Fellow at St Edmunds College, Cambridge, and an Adjunct Professor at Liverpool Hope University.

In 2004 he was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) for his contributions to science and education. He holds the degrees of DSc and MD, for his publications in neuroscience and bioethics respectively. He is Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Government’s Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology.

Interests in the science-religion field overlap these bioethical interests. As a result, he speaks and writes in these areas, both from a specific Christian perspective and as an academic/policy commentator.

Recent Publications in the Bioethical Area

• JONES DG: Speaking for the Dead: Cadavers in Biology and Medicine. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot. 275pp (2000)
• JONES DG and SAGEE S: Xenotransplantation: Hope or Delusion? Biologist, 48: 129-132 (2001)
• JONES DG and GALVIN KA: Retention of body parts: Reflections from anatomy, New Zealand Medical Journal, 115: 267-269 (2002).
• JONES DG: Re-inventing anatomy: The impact of plastination on how others see the human body. Clinical Anatomy, 15: 436-440 (2002)
• JONES DG, GEAR R and GALVIN KA: Stored human tissue: An ethical perspective on the fate of anonymous, archival body parts, Journal of Medical Ethics, 29: 343-347 (2003).
• TOWNS CR and JONES DG: Stem cells: Public policy and ethics, NZ Bioethics Journal, 5: 22-28 (2004)
• TOWNS CR and JONES DG: Stem cells, embryos and the environment: a context for both science and ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, 30: 410-413 (2005).
• JONES DG: The use of human tissue: An insider's view. New Zealand Bioethics Journal, 3(2): 8-12 (2002)
• AV, GILLETT G and JONES DG: Medical Ethics, Fourth Edition, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 312pp (2005)
• JONES DG and TOWNS CR: Navigating the quagmire: The regulation of human embryonic stem cell research, Human Reproduction, online 16 December 2005.

Recent publications from a Christian perspective

• JONES DG: Valuing People: Human Value in a World of Medical Technology, Paternoster Press, Carlisle. 241pp (1999)
• JONES DG: The human embryo: A reassessment of theological approaches in the light of scientific developments.Stimulus, 8(1): 38-45 (2000)
• JONES, DG: Clones: The Clowns of Technology? Paternoster Press, Carlisle. 192pp (2001)
• JONES DG: Human cloning: A watershed for science and ethics? Science and Christian Belief, 14: 159-180 (2002)
• JONES DG: Human Cloning: To Fear or not to Fear? Affirm Publications, Tauranga, New Zealand 32pp (2004)
• JONES DG and BYRNE M (editors): Stem Cell Research and Cloning: Contemporary Challenges to our Humanity. An issue of Interface: A Forum for Theology in the World. Australian Theological Forum, Adelaide, 102 pp (2004)
• JONES DG: Embryos and people: The perplexity of our beginnings. Stimulus 12(4): 20-26 (2004)
• JONES DG: Designers of the Future: Who Makes the Decisions? Monarch Publishing, Oxford. 256pp (2005)
• JONES DG: The status of the human embryo and embryonic stem cells: Scientific and theological assessments. Science and Christian Belief, 17: 199-222 (2005)
• JONES DG: Neuroscience and the modification of human beings. In Future Perfect? God, Medicine and Human Identity (ed C Deane-Drummond and P Scott). T and T Clark International, London, pp 87-99 (2006).

James Jones became Bishop of Liverpool in 1998 having been Bishop of Hull since 1994. Over the last ten years he has been deeply involved in Urban Regeneration. For four years he chaired the New Deal for Communities programme in Liverpool (Kensington Regeneration) and championed community led regeneration in lectures, newspaper articles and broadcasts. 45% of the parishes in the Diocese of Liverpool are Urban Priority Areas.

He also chairs the Board of a faith based City Academy jointly sponsored by the Roman Catholic and Anglican Dioceses. It is the first Academy to take the environment as its specialism and opened in September 2005 which was declared by the United Nations as the beginning of the decade of education for Sustainable Development.

The Bishop also chairs the North West Constitutional Convention which is addressing the issue of regional governance. He believes that regional and local government needs to be coherent, accountable and transparent and that decisions about the future of communities need to be taken at the most local level.

He lectures widely and broadcasts regularly on 'Thought for the Day'. He has written a number of books, the latest looking at the relationship between Christianity and the environment: "Jesus and the Earth" (SPCK 2003).

Working in partnership with a number of agencies including the Regional Development Agency for the North West he has set up Operation EDEN which is an organisation working across the faith communities engaging local people in the holistic transformation of their local environment. Quoting the African proverb "We have borrowed the present from our children" he believes that young people are much more alert to the need to create cleaner, safer and greener communities. He believes that there is a real tension between community led regeneration and programmes that are centrally driven. He feels that these tensions are often revealed in the language that is used.

People living in local communities tend to use organic language such as "seeds, planting and renewal"; those who control the money tend to use mechanical language such as "triggers, buttons, levers and targets". He is convinced that you cannot have mechanical solutions to organic problems and that those with the money and the power need to understand more fully how communities die and live again.

Although he believes and works well with professional regenerators he is a passionate advocate of enabling local people to shape their own destinies.

Dr Judge is Emeritus Reader in Physiology, University of Oxford. After studying Physics and Mathematics at the University of Keele he undertook Voluntary Service Overseas in the Philippines 1969-71, teaching Mathematics and Physics at Mindanao State University. He obtained his doctorate in Neuroscience in 1976 at the University of Keele, supervised by Prof. D.M. MacKay, and then held postdoctoral positions at the US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland and the University of Oxford. Current research interests are in the neuroscience of vision, eye movement and accommodation of the eyes, and within that field, myopia and eye growth, the mechanism of accommodation, and the cause of presbyopia.

Dr Judge has spoken at various science-religion Summer Schools on bioethics, Neuroscience, the Christian view of human nature and Miracles. He is a member of Christians in Science.

Publications in science and religion

• Judge, S.J. (1988) ‘Ideology and the nature of Man’, Faith and Thought 114: 119-127.
• Judge, S.J. (1991) ‘How not to think about miracles’, Science and Christian Belief 3: 97-102.

Recent science publications

• Judge SJ (2006) `Reflection makes sense of rotation of the eyes', Vision Res. 46:3862-6.
• Burd HJ, Wilde GS, Judge SJ (2006) ‘Can reliable values of Young's modulus be deduced from Fisher's (1971) spinning lens measurements?’, Vision Res. 46:1346-60.
• Burd HJ, Judge SJ, Cross JA. (2002) ‘Numerical modelling of the accommodating lens’
  Vision Res. 42:2235-251.
• Whatham AR, Judge SJ. (2001) ‘Compensatory changes in eye growth and refraction induced by daily wear of soft contact lenses in young marmosets’, Vision Res. 41:267-73.

Fazlun Khalid has a world wide reputation as an indefatigable advocate of environmental protection rooted in religious traditions and is now recognised as one of fifteen leading eco theologians in the world. He appeared on the Independent on Sunday list of the top 100 environmentalists in the UK in 2008 and is also listed amongst the “500 Most Influential Muslims in the World” by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre of Jordan. He founded the Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences which is now established as the world's leading Islamic environmental NGO.

Helge Kragh is Professor of History of Science and Technology, Department of Science Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Other distinctions include: President (2008-2010) of the European Society of History of Science; member of the the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the European Academy of Science, and the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences; Knight of the Dannebrogsorden.

Professor Kragh's academic research interests are in the history of modern physical sciences, including chemistry, astronomy, physics and cosmology; historical interactions between science and religion; philosophical aspects of science; and science-technology relations.

In the science-religion field Professor Kragh is especially interested in cosmology and religion through the ages; thermodynamics and religion; the age of the Earth in relation to Biblical chronology; the scholastic synthesis of science and religion. He has written several books, articles and lectures on these topics. He is a board member of the Science-Theology Dialogue Forum (a Danish organization).

Recent selected publications in history of science

• Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology (Oxford: Oxford University Press; to be published January 2011).
• "Continual fascination: The oscillating universe in modern cosmology," Science in Context 22 (2009, 587-612.
• "Contemporary history of cosmology and the controversy over the multiverse," Annals of Science 66 (2009), 529-552.
• "The spectrum of the Aurora Borealis: from enigma to laboratory science," Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 39 (2009), 377-417.
• "Styles of science and engineering: The case of early long-distance telephony," Centaurus 51 (2009), 175-188.
• "The solar element: A reconsideration of helium’s early history." Annals of Science 66 (2009), 157-182.
• "From disulfiram to antabuse: The invention of a drug." Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 33 (2008), 82-93.
• The Moon that Wasn’t: The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite (Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2008).
• "Cosmic radioactivity and the age of the universe, 1900-1930," Journal for the History of Astronomy 38 (2007), 393-412.
• "The context of discovery: Lemaître and the origin of the primeval-atom universe," Annals of Science 64 (2007), 445-470 [with Dominique Lambert].
   

Recent selected publications in science and religion

• "An anthropic myth: Fred Hoyle’s carbon-12 resonance level." Archive for History of Exact Sciences (2010). DOI: 10.1007/s00407-010-0068-8.
• "On modern cosmology and its place in science education." Science & Education (2010). DOI: 10.1007/s11191-010-9271-x.
• "Tro og viden: Konflikt eller harmoni?" s. 61-68 i Lars Becker-Larsen m.fl., En Ny Himmel: Verdensbilleder fra Kugleskaller til Kvanteskum (Århus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2009) [in Danish; on relations between faith and science].
• Entropic Creation. Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology (London: Ashgate, 2008).
• "Natural philosophy, theology, and cosmology: The emergence of a new world picture," pp. 47-58 in George N. Vlahakis, ed., Notions of Physics in Natural Philosophy (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).
• "Pierre Duhem, entropy, and Catholic faith." Perspectives in Physics 10 (2008), 379-395.
• "From entropy to a divinely created universe – a forgotten theme in the history of science and theology," pp. 61-77 in H. Kragh, ed., Theology and Science: Issues for Future Dialogue (Aarhus: University of Aarhus, 2007).
• "En dybt religiøs ikke-troende," pp. 54-66 in R. Engelhardt, ed., Tankestreger – Tværvidenskabelige Nybrud (Copenhagen: Danish School of Education Press, 2007) [in Danish; on Einstein’s religiosity]
• Matter and Spirit in the Universe: Scientific and Religious Preludes to Modern Cosmology (London: Imperial College Press, 2004).
• Universet i Perspektiv: Kosmologi, Filosofi og Teologi (Copenhagen: Fremad, 2001) [in Danish; on cosmology, philosophy and theology].
   

When he was only nine years old, Satish Kumar renounced the world and joined the wandering brotherhood of Jain monks. Dissuaded from his path by an inner voice at the age of eighteen, he left the monastic order and became a campaigner for land reform, working to turn Gandhi's vision of a peaceful world into reality.

Fired by the example of Bertrand Russell, he undertook an 8,000 mile peace pilgrimage, walking from India to America without any money, through deserts, mountains, storms and snow. It was an adventure during which he was thrown into jail in France, faced a loaded gun in America - and delivered packets of 'peace tea' to the leaders of the four nuclear powers.

In 1973, he settled in England, taking the Editorship of Resurgence magazine. He has been the editor ever since (30 + years!). He is the guiding spirit behind a number of ecological, spiritual and educational ventures in Britain. He founded the Small School in Hartland, a pioneering secondary school (aged 11-16), which brings into its curriculum ecological and spiritual values. In 1991, Schumacher College, a residential international centre for the study of ecological and spiritual values, was founded, of which he is a Visiting Fellow.

Following Indian tradition, in his fiftieth year, he undertook another pilgrimage: again carrying no money, he walked 2,000 miles to the holy places of Britain – Glastonbury, Canterbury, Lindisfarne and Iona. Meeting old friends and making new ones along the way, this pilgrimage was a celebration of his love of life and nature.

In November 2001, Satish Kumar was presented with the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values Abroad. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by the Universities of Plymouth, Lancaster and Exeter. From March to May 2008 Satish was invited as Des Lee visiting Professor of Global Awareness at Webster University, St Louis, Missouri.

His autobiography, No Destination, has sold 50,000 copies and is published by Green Books. Satish's three other books, You Are, Therefore I Am - A Declaration of Dependence, The Buddha and the Terrorist, Spiritual Compass and his new book Earth Pilgrim are published by Green Books.

In 2008, Satish Kumar presented a 50-minute documentary on the BBC as part of the Natural World series. In the programme Satish introduced the Dartmoor scenes and sights that most inspire him and contemplated the lessons they hold for humanity. A highly acclaimed documentary that mixed eastern philosophy with the western landscape of Dartmoor; the programme was watched by over 3.6 million people.

Satish teaches lectures and runs workshops internationally on reverential ecology, holistic education and voluntary simplicity.

Satish can be contacted at Resurgence, Ford House, Hartland, Bideford, Devon EX39 6EE. E-mail: Satish@Resurgence.org

 

David C. Lahti is an Assistant Professor of Biology and the Undergraduate Research Coordinator at Queens College, City University of New York, where he runs a Behavior & Evolution laboratory focusing mainly on learned behavior in birds and humans.  Prof. Lahti received a BS in biology and history from Gordon College.  He received a PhD in moral philosophy and the philosophy of biology at the Whitefield Institute, Oxford, for a study of the contributions science can and cannot make to an understanding of the foundations of morality.  He then received a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan for a study of rapid evolution in an introduced bird.  He has been a Darwin Fellow at the University of Massachusetts and a Kirschstein NRSA Research Fellow with the US National Institutes of Health, where he studied the development and evolution of bird song.  His current research projects involve co-evolution between avian brood parasites and their hosts in Africa, the genetic and cultural divergence of the house finch, the diversification of moral beliefs among African peoples, and the evolution of our capacity for morality and religion.

Selected recent biology publications

• Lahti, D. C.  2005.  Evolution of bird eggs in the absence of cuckooparasitism.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 102: 18057-18062. (Covered by New York Times, USA Today, New Scientist, Current Biology, and others).
• Lahti, D. C.  2006.  Persistence of egg recognition in the absence of cuckoo brood parasitism: pattern and mechanism.  Evolution 60: 157-168.
• Lahti, D. C.  2008.  Population differentiation and rapid evolution of egg color in accordance with solar radiation.  Auk 125: 796-802.
• Lahti, D. C., N. A. Johnson, B. C. Ajie, S. P. Otto, A. P. Hendry, D. T. Blumstein, R. G. Coss, K. Donohue, and S. A. Foster.  2009.  Relaxed selection in the wild.  Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24:487-496.
• Lahti, D. C.  2009.  Why we have been unable to generalize about bird nest
  predation. Animal Conservation 12: 279-281.
• Lahti, D. C.  2009.  The place where extinction was discovered.  Journal of Field Ornithology 80:438-442.

Selected publications in science and religion

• Lahti, D. C.  2003.  Parting with illusions in evolutionary ethics.  Biologyand Philosophy 18: 639-651.
• Lahti, D. C.  2004.  "You have heard ... but I tell you ...":  a test of the adaptive significance of moral evolution.  In P. Clayton and J. Schloss (eds.) Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective.  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, pp.132-150.
• Lahti, D. C. and B. S. Weinstein.  2005.  The better angels of our nature: group stability and the evolution of moral tension.  Evolution and Human Behavior 26: 47-63.
• Lahti, D. C.  2009.  The correlated history of social organization, morality, and religion.  In E. Voland and W. Schiefenhövel (eds.), The Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior.  New York: Springer-Verlag, pp.
  67-88.
• Lahti, D. C. (in press).  Why humans discover.  Euresis Proceedings 1.

 

Dominique Lambert is Professor and Director of the Department of Philosophy, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP), Namur. Since 1994, Prof. Lambert has carried out research on the history of modern physical cosmology. Starting from new documents concerning Georges Lemaître, discovered in several sources of archives, he has made contributions to Lemaître’s biography and to the detailed history of Big Bang cosmology. Prof. Lambert has prepared an edition of “Mgr Lemaître Opera Omnia” (involving many unedited manuscripts about spinor algebra, numerical analysis (prehistory of the Fast Fourier Transform), regularization of the “Three Body problem”, pedagogy of arithmetic, etc.

During this period Prof. Lambert has also researched the relations between science and religion in the context of Mgr Lemaître’s life and cosmology. This historical study is rooted in systematic and conceptual research on the way sciences and religion interact. This research has already produced, for the first time, a rigorous and detailed reconstitution of the major steps of Lemaître’s spiritual journey.

Since 2005, Prof. Lambert has researched the history of the reception of Darwinism. In collaboration with Prof. Groessens (U.C.L., Department of Geology) he has been involved in the discovery, analysis, presentation and critical edition of the manuscript (lost since 1921) of the unpublished book of Canon Henry de Dorlodot (geologist and theologian): Le Darwinisme au point de vue de l’orthodoxie catholique. Volume 2. L’origine de l’Homme. This document is an interesting and important witness of the way Darwinism was interpreted in the University of Louvain and of the state of natural sciences in this university at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Prof. Lambert is winner of the following prizes: Prix du Concours annuel 1999 (septième question) de la Classe des Lettres de l’Académie royale de Belgique; Prix 1999 de la Fondation Georges Lemaître (shared with Dr Jean-Pierre Luminet of the Observatoire de Paris-Meudon); ESSSAT Prize (European Society for the Study of Science and Theology) 2000.

Recent selected publications in history of science

Papers:

• M. HELLER, D. LAMBERT, J. MADORE, “A brief Story of Noncommutative Space-Time”, Acta Cosmologica, XXIV-1 (1998) 51-69.
• D. LAMBERT, “Mgr Georges Lemaître” in Dizionario interdisciplinare di scienza e fede. Cultura scientifica, Filosophia e theologia (A.Strumia, G.Tanzella-Nitti, eds), Roma, Urbaniana University Press, 2002, pp.1908-1917.
• D.LAMBERT, “La réception de la mécanique quantique chez Georges Lemaître” in Les Quanta : Un siècle après Planck (Actes du colloque organisé par la Fondation Louis de Broglie, Académie des Sciences, Paris, 15-12-2000), Paris, E.D.P. Sciences, 2003, pp.39-55.
• D. LAMBERT, “Genèse et signification de l’hypothèse de l’atome primitif”, Kairos (Revue de la Faculté de Philosophie de l’Université de Toulouse –Le Mirail), 26 (2005) 111-131.
• D. LAMBERT, “La symétrie dans les travaux algébriques de Georges Lemaître” in Symétries (P. Radelet-de Grave, éd. Avec la coll. De C. Brichard), Turnhout, Brepols, 2005, Centre interfacultaire d’étude en histoire des sciences, U.C.L.,  Réminisciences 7, pp.293-309.
• H. KRAGH, D. LAMBERT, “The context of discovery: Lemaître and the origin of the primeval-atom universe”, Annals of Science, 64 (2008) 445-470.

Books:

• D. LAMBERT, Un atome d'Univers. La vie et l'oeuvre de Georges Lemaître, Bruxelles, Racine/Lessius, 2000.
• D. LAMBERT, L’itinéraire spirituel de Georges Lemaître suivi de “Univers et Atome” (inédit de G. Lemaître), Bruxelles, Lessius, 2008.
• D. LAMBERT, J. REISSE, Charles Darwin et Georges Lemaître. Une improbable mais passionnante rencontre, Bruxelles, Académie Royale de Belgique, Mémoire de la Classe des Sciences (3e série, tome XXX, n°2057), 2008.
• Henry de Dorlodot, Le Darwinisme au point de vue de l’orthodoxie catholique. Volume 2. L’évolution de l’Homme (manuscrit inédit de 1921, annoté et présenté par M. Cl. GROESSENS, D. LAMBERT), Bruxelles, Mardaga, 2009 (general historical introduction and biography of H. de Dorlodot by M. Cl. Groessens and D. Lambert: “Le Darwinisme d’un chanoine”, pp.13-90).
   

Recent selected publications in science and theology

Papers:

• D. LAMBERT, “Mgr Georges Lemaître et les ‘Amis de Jésus’ ”, Revue Théologique de Louvain, 27 (1996) 309-343.

• D. LAMBERT, “Mgr Georges Lemaître et le dialogue entre la cosmologie et la foi. I”, Revue Théologique de Louvain, 28 (1997) 28-53.

• D. LAMBERT, “Mgr Georges Lemaître et le dialogue entre la cosmologie et la foi. II”, Revue Théologique de Louvain, 28 (1997) 227-243.

• D. LAMBERT, “Une articulation entre les sciences et la théologie est-elle légitime ?”, Nouvelle Revue Théologique, 119 (1997) 520-540.

• D. LAMBERT, “Le figure del dialogo scienza-teleogia : ostacoli e prospettive” in Dio e la Natura, Roma, Armando Editore, 2002, pp.13-20.

• D. LAMBERT, “Les arguments anthropiques: risque de concordisme?” in Anthropologies et humanisme. Vers une Anthropologie fondamentale (sous la dir. de F. Jacques), Paris, Parole et Silence, 2006, pp.35-49.

• D.LAMBERT, “Quelques aspects philosophiques et théologiques de l’oeuvre du Professeur Christian de Duve” in Epistémologie et Théologie. Les enjeux du dialogue Foi-Science-Ethique pour l’avenir de l’humanité (Mélanges en l’honneur de Mgr Th. Tshibangu, L. Santedi Kinkupu, éd.), Faculté de Théologie des Facultés Catholiques de Kinshasa, 2007, pp.467-497 (Recherches Africaines de Théologie, 18).

• D. LAMBERT, “Commencement et creation”, Choisir, n°595/596, juillet-août 2009, pp.30-33.

• D. LAMBERT, “Conditions anthropiques, finalité et creation”, Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 107 (3) (2009) 429-452.

• D. LAMBERT, “Un acteur majeur de la réception du darwinisme à Louvain : Henry de Dorlodot”, Revue théologique de Louvain, 40 (2009) 500-530.

Books:

• D.LAMBERT, Sciences et Théologie. Les figures d'un dialogue, Bruxelles/Namur, Lessius/P.U.N., 1999.

Translated in:
Portuguese: Ciências e Teologia. Aspectos de um diàlogo (trad. Nadyr de Salles Penteado), Sao Polo, Ediçoes Loyola, 2002;
Croat: Znanosti i Teologija. Oblici Dijaloga, Zagreb, Krscanska Sadasnjost, 2003;
Italian: Scienze e teologia. Figure di un dialogo (Prefazione di Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti), Roma, Città Nuova/Sefir, 2006.

Edward J. Larson holds the Hugh and Hazel Darling Chair in Law and is University Professor of History at Pepperdine University and recipient of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History.  He served as Associate Counsel for the U.S. Congress Committee on Education and Labor (1983-87) and an attorney with a major Seattle law firm (1979-83) and retains an appointment at the University of Georgia, where he has taught since 1987.

The author of seven books and over one hundred published articles, Larson writes mostly about issues of science, medicine and law from an historical perspective.  His books include A Magnificent Catastrophe:  The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign (2007); Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (2005, 2006 rev. ed.); Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science in the Galapagos Islands (2001), Sex, Race, and Science:  Eugenics in the Deep South (1995), Trial and Error:  The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution (1985, 2003 rev. ed.) and the Pulitzer Prize winning Summer for the Gods:  The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997).  His articles have appeared in such varied journals as Nature, Atlantic Monthly, Time, Science, Scientific American, The Nation, Wall Street Journal, Virginia Law Review, and Isis.  He is the co-author or co-editor of six additional books, including (most recently) The Constitutional Convention:  A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison (2005).  The Fulbright Program named Larson to the John Adams Chair in American Studies for 2001 and he participated in the National Science Foundation’s 2003-04 Antarctic Artists and Writers Program.

Larson teaches, writes, and speaks on history, law, science, and bio-ethics for academic, professional, and public audiences.  He has delivered endowed or funded addresses at over 60 universities and was commencement speaker at two universities.   He has given papers at academic conferences throughout the world, and legal and medical education talks to professional legal, judicial and medical groups across the country.  He is interviewed frequently for broadcast and print media, including multiple appearances on PBS, NPR, the History Channel, C-SPAN, and CNN.  His course on the history of evolution theory is available on audio and video The Teaching Company.

Born in central Ohio, Larson attended Mansfield, Ohio, public schools.  He earned a B.A. from Williams College (1974), a law degree from Harvard (1979), and a Ph.D. in the History of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984), and received an honorary doctorate in humane letters from the Ohio State University in 2004.  Larson has taught in Austria, China, Chile, Ecuador, France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, and Italy.  He is married to a pediatrician, Lucy Larson, and has two children, Sarah and Luke.  They live in Malibu, California, and Athens, Georgia.

Dr Stephen Law is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Heythrop College, University of London. He is editor of THINK, a journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. Dr Law was previously Junior Research Fellow at The Queen's College, University of Oxford, where he obtained B.Phil and D.Phil degrees in Philosophy.

Dr Law is currently working on topics in the philosophy of religion, especially the evidential problem of evil and Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Natrualism. He also works in metaphysics, especially on natural kinds and necessity.

Recent Publications

• "Naturalism, Evolution and True Belief". Analysis, Jan 2012.
• "The Evil God Challenge", Religious Studies, 2009.
• "Plantinga's Belief-Cum-Desire Argument Refuted", Religious Studies, 2010.
• "Miracles, Evidence, and The Existence of Jesus", Faith and Philosophy, 2011.

Bernard Lightman is Professor of Humanities at York University, Toronto.

David Lindberg is Hilldale Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin holds the M.S. degree in physics from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science from Indiana University. He has written or edited thirteen books and is now editing (with Ronald Numbers) the forthcoming 8-volume Cambridge History of Science. He is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, the Académie internationale d’histoire des sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Bellagio Study Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. He was President of the History of Science Society in 1994-1995 and, in 1999, received the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society for lifetime scholarly achievement. His book, The Beginnings of Western Science, was awarded the 1994 Watson Davis Prize of the History of Science Society and the 1995 John Templeton Foundation Prize for Outstanding Books in Theology and Natural Science.

Prof. Lindberg’s non science-religion research has been primarily in medieval and early modern mathematical science, especially geometrical optics and theories of vision. In addition to his work as co-editor of The Cambridge History of Science, of which three volumes have been published to date, he is revising Beginnings of Western Science and planning a short history of science for non-specialist readers.

Science-religion publications include

• When Science and Christianity Meet, ed. David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2003), 357 pp.
• The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. - A.D. 1450, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1992),455 pp.
• God and Nature:Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science, ed. Lindberg and Numbers,Berkeley and Los Angeles:University of California Press (1986).
• ‘Early Christian Attitudes Toward Nature’, in Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction, ed. Gary B. Ferngren, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (2002), pp. 47-56.
• ‘Medieval Science and Christianity’, in Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction, ed. Gary B. Ferngren, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (2002), pp. 57-72.
• ‘Medieval Science and Its Religious Context’, in Constructing Knowledge in the History of Science, ed. Arnold Thackray, which appeared as Osiris, 10 (1995), 60-79.
• ‘Science as Handmaiden: Roger Bacon and the Patristic Tradition’, Isis, 78 (1987), 518-36.
• ‘Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science’ (with Ronald L. Numbers), Church History, 55 (l986), 338-54.
• ‘Science and the Early Christian Church’, Isis, 74 (1983), pp.509-30

Other publications incude

• Roger Bacon and the Origins of Perspectiva in the Middle Ages: A Critical Edition and English Translation of Bacon's Perspectiva with Introduction and Notes, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1996), 524 pp.
• The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C - A.D 1450, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1992), 473 pp.
• Roger Bacon's Philosophy of Nature: A Critical Edition, with English Translation, Introduction, and Notes, of De multiplicatione specierum and De speculis comburentibus, Oxford:Clarendon Press (1983),502 pp.
• Studies in the History of Medieval Optics, London:Variorum Reprints (1983),302 pp.
• Theories of Vision from al-Kindi to Kepler, Chicago:University of Chicago Press (1976),336 pp.
• A Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Optical Manuscripts,Toronto:Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (1975),142 pp.

David Livingstone is Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at the Queen’s University of Belfast, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He was awarded the Centenary Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 1998 and the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in 2008. In October he takes up a 3-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship and is to deliver the Gifford Lectures in 2014.

He works on the history of geographical thought and practice, and on the historical relations between science and religion. Currently he is working on two book projects: one entitled Dealing With Darwin which examines the different responses to Darwinism in different locations during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the other The Empire of Climate which is to be a critical history of climatic determinism from Herodotus to Global Warming.

Authored Books:

• Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science (University of Alabama Press, 1987)
• Darwin’s Forgotten Defenders (Scottish Academic Press, 1987)
• The Preadamite Theory and the Marriage of Science and Religion (American Philosophical Society, 1982)
• The Geographical Tradition (Blackwell, 1992)
• Science, Space and Hermeneutics The Hettner Lectures (University of Heidelberg, 2001)
• Putting Science in it Place (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
• Adam’s Ancestors:  Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

Some Recent Edited Books:

• Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1999)
• Geography and Enlightenment  (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
• Evolution, Scripture, and Science: Selected Writings of B.B. Warfield (Baker, 2000)
• Geography and Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
• Queen’s Thinkers: Essays on the Intellectual History of a University (Blackstaff Press, 2008
• Geographies of Nineteenth Century Science, (University of Chicago Press, 2011
• The Sage Handbook of Geographical Knowledge (Sage, 2011)

Dr. Ard Louis is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a Reader in Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, where he leads an interdisciplinary research group studying problems on the border between chemistry, physics and biology.    Prior to Oxford he taught Theoretical Chemistry at Cambridge University where he was also director of studies in Natural Sciences at Hughes Hall. He was born in the Netherlands, raised in Gabon, Central Africa, did his undergraduate studies at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands and received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University, U.S.A.

Dr. Louis is the International Secretary for Christians in Science and an associate of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion based at St. Edmunds College, University of Cambridge, and served on the Advisory board of the John Templeton Foundation.

Recent Publications in Science and Religion:

Wonderen en Wetenschap: de Lange Schaduw van David Hume, in Cees Dekker, René van Woudenberg and Gijsbert  van den Brink (ed.), Omhoog kijken in platland (Baarn: Ten Have, 2007).

Geloof en wetenschap: van culturele vervreemding naar hereniging, in Cees Dekker (ed) Geleerd en Gelovig (Baarn: Ten Have, 2008)

Christen en toch serieuze natuurwetenschapper, Nederlands Dagblad, 4 Nov 2008

Has physics disproved the existence of God? UCCF Free website

Belijdend christen kiest evolutie, Nederlands Dagblad, 22 Jan 2009

Conflict of boedelscheiding? in Martine van Veelen and Cees Dekker (ed) Hete Hangijzers ( Buijten en Schipperheijn  2009)

A Deeper Logic? in R. Bancewicz (ed) Test of FAITH: Spiritual Journeys with Scientists. (Paternoster 2009)
 

Recent Scientific Publications:

The self-assembly and evolution of homomeric protein complexes
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 118106 (2009)

Knot controlled ejection of a polymer from a virus capsid
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 088101 (2009)

The self-assembly of DNA Holliday junctions studied with a minimal model
J. Chem. Phys. 130, 065101 (2009)

Hydrodynamics of confined colloidal fluids in two dimensions
Phys. Rev. E 79, 051402 (2009)

Self-assembly of monodisperse clusters: Dependence on target geometry
J. Chem. Phys. 131, 175101 (2009).

Monodisperse self-assembly in a model with protein-like interactions
J. Chem. Phys. 131, 175102 (2009)

Effect of topology on dynamics of knots in polymers under tension
arXiv:0908.1085  (2009)

Modelling the Self-Assembly of Virus Capsids
arXiv:0910.1916 (2009)

Self-assembly, modularity and physical complexity
arXiv: (2009)

DNA nanotweezers studied with a coarse-grained model of DNA
arXiv:0911.0555 (2009)

Ernest Lucas has an MA in Chemistry from Oxford University and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Kent. He did post-doctoral work in biochemistry in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Oxford University before studying Theology at Oxford. After being ordained as a Baptist Minister he was minister of Baptist churches in Durham City and Liverpool. He obtained a PhD in Oriental Studies from Liverpool University. He was Associate Director of the Institute for Contemporary Christianity in London before moving to Bristol Baptist College (an affiliated college of Bristol University) where he is Vice-Principal and Tutor in Biblical Studies. The course he teaches on Science and Christianity has received a Templeton award, as has a paper he has published on Science, Wisdom, Eschatology and the Cosmic Christ. Among his recent books is Can We Believe Genesis Today? (IVP, 2001). He is married to Hazel, a physics teacher, and they have two sons.

Scott Mandelbrote is a lecturer in history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Peterhouse College.  He specialises in early modern intellectual history, particularly the history of scholarship and the history of science.

Mr Mandelbrote's research topics have included Isaac Newton. He is particularly interested in the transformations of textual (especially biblical) authority that took place in the early modern world, in the process of the transmission of knowledge in that society, and in the changing impact of the printing press.

Dr Hilary Marlow lectures in Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew in the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Cambridge and, from time to time, in the Cambridge Theological Federation. Until Sept 2009 she was a full time Research Associate in Theology and Science at the Faraday Institute, and she continues to be involved in a joint project with the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics entitled 'Hope for creation: a biblical vision for contemporary environmental policy'. She has a particular interest in religious, especially Christian, motivations for environmental concern and is currently working (among other things) on a book exploring the Bible’s portrayal of relationship between human beings and the natural world. Her PhD from the  University of Cambridge examined the Old Testament prophets in the light of contemporary environmental ethics and is now published by Oxford University Press. She also hold honours degrees in Biblical Studies from Kings College London and Social Sciences from the University of Manchester. For the past ten years she has been very involved in the Christian environmental charity, A Rocha, and she is a Director of the John Ray Initiative. She regularly speaks to lay and specialist audiences on Christian faith and the environment.

Science and Religion Publications

• Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics: Re-Reading Amos, Hosea and First Isaiah. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
• 'The Environment' in Votewise Now!. Ed. Rose Lynas (London: SPCK, 2009)
• 'Justice for All the Earth: Society, Ecology and the Biblical Prophets' in Creation in Crisis: Christian Perspectives on Sustainability. Ed. Robert White (London: SPCK, 2009)
• 'The Other Prophet! The Voice of the Earth in the Book of Amos' in Exploring Ecological Hermeneutics. Eds. Norman Habel and Peter Trudinger, (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008).
• The Earth is the Lord's: A Biblical Response to Environmental Issues (Cambridge: Grove Books, 2008)

Other Publications

• 'The Lament over the River Nile; a Study of Isaiah 19:5-10' (Vetus Testamentum 57 (2007) pp. 229-242).

Tim Maughan is Professor of Cancer Studies at the School of Medicine in Cardiff University and an Honorary Consultant Clinical Oncologist at Velindre Hospital specialising in gastrointestinal cancers and lymphoma therapy. He is the Director of the Wales Cancer Trials Network, a regional clinical trials organisation founded in 1998 and forerunner of the National Cancer Research Network and currently chairs the NCRN operational steering group. In 2005 the Wales Cancer Trials Unit was accredited by the NCRI and under Professor Maughan’s leadership the WCTU is now running a portfolio of major multicentre cancer trials.

Professor Maughan has recently been appointed as the Director of the Clinical Research Collaboration Cymru Coordinating Centre. This major research collaboration funded by the Wales Assembly Government aims to develop an internationally competitive infrastructure for clinical research in health and social care and is the Welsh component of the UK Clinical Research Network.

Professor Maughan’s research is in the treatment of patients with colorectal cancer. He is involved extensively at UK level in clinical trial design and execution in gastrointestinal cancers and is chair of the NCRI advanced colorectal cancer subgroup. As such, he is the Chief Investigator of the MRC COIN trial, evaluating novel treatments in metastatic colorectal cancer. This trial aims to recruit over 2400 patients from centres across the UK in the next two years. There is an extensive translational research programme running alongside the COIN trial, much of which is centred in Cardiff. He has previously worked in University College London,  Southern Sudan and Cambridge.

Tim Mawson was educated at St Peter’s College and then The Queen’s College in Oxford. He held a number of temporary lectureships at other Oxford colleges before returning to St Peter’s in 1998, where he is now one of two Philosophy Fellows.

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)

Ross McKenzie is currently a Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His main research interests are in the fields of: condensed matter theory, strongly correlated electron systems, mesoscopic electronics, quantum phase transitions, disordered systems, nano-materials and mathematical physics. He has research grants to investigate strongly correlated electron models for organic superconductors, quantum phase transitions in random systems, mesoscopic electronic devices and electronic transport in DNA.

Prof. McKenzie studied for his first degree in theoretical physics at the Australian National University in Canberra, before moving to Princeton University in the USA for his PhD (completed in 1989). Since then he has worked at the Ohio State University in the USA and the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia before moving to the University of Queensland in 2000.

Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming and alternative energy and advocates for more localized economies. In 2010 the Boston Globe called him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist" and Time magazine described him as "the world's best green journalist. In 2009 he led the organization of 350.org, which coordinated what Foreign Policy magazine called "the largest ever global coordinated rally of any kind," with 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. The magazine named him to its inaugural list of the 100 most important global thinkers, and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men of 2009.

His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 by Random House after being serialized in the New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages.

Subsequent books include Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (March 2007) It addresses what the author sees as shortcomings of the growth economy and envisions a transition to more local-scale enterprise.

In late summer 2006, Bill helped lead a five-day walk across Vermont to demand action on global warming that some newspaper accounts called the largest demonstration to date in America about climate change. Beginning in January 2007 he founded stepitup07.org to demand that Congress enact curbs on carbon emissions that would cut global warming pollution 80 percent by 2050. With six college students, he organized 1,400 global warming demonstrations across all 50 states of America on April 14, 2007. Step It Up 2007 has been described as the largest day of protest about climate change in the nation's history. A guide to help people initiate environmental activism in their community coming out of the Step It Up 2007 experience entitledFight Global Warming Now was published in October 2007 and a second day of action on climate change was held the following November 3.

Bill is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He is also a board member and contributor to Grist Magazine.

Bill has been awarded Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellowships, and won the Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000. He has honorary degrees from Green Mountain College, Unity College, Lebanon Valley College, Sterling College, the State University of New York, University of Maine, Colgate University and Whittier College.

Tom McLeish is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) of Durham University. He studied for his first degree, in physics, and PhD (1987) in polymer physics at the University of Cambridge. The PhD work, sponsored by Courtaulds Research, was carried out in the group of Sir Sam Edwards in Cambridge, where he developed an interest in branched polymer dynamics. After a post-doctoral position also at the Cavendish Laboratory and funded by ICI, he became a lecturer in physics at the University of Sheffield. There he built up a group working on the theory of dynamics of complex fluids. In 1993 he took the chair in polymer physics at the University of Leeds. He has since won several awards both in Europe and the USA for his work on molecular rheology of polymers, including the Weissenberg Award of the European Society of Rheology (2007) and the Gold Medal of the British Society of Rheology (2009).

From 2000-2005 he was a Senior Research Fellow of the EPSRC (UK), and from 2003 -2009 the Director of the UK Polymer IRC, a multidisciplinary consortium of over 100 polymer scientists from the Universities of Durham, Leeds, Bradford and Sheffield, strongly integrated with industry. From 2004 - 2008 he was also Director of the White Rose Doctoral Training Centre in Biomolecules and Cells at Leeds, a collaboration between life scientists and physical scientists at Yorkshire Universities. He is a consultant for a number of chemical industries.

His research interests include: (i) molecular rheology and processing of entangled polymeric fluids (especially the role of molecular topology); (ii) macromolecular biophysics including protein dynamics, folding and interactions, and biological self-assembly; (iii) issues of theology, ethics and science. He has published over 130 scientific papers and reviews, and is a co-author of the collaborative volume "Values in Higher Education" (Aureus, 2005).

He is also involved in science-communication with the public via regular radio, TV and schools lectures, discussing issues from the Physics of Slime to the interaction of Faith and Science. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Physical Society.

Ernan McMullin died in February 2011. He had been Professor emeritus of philosophy and Director emeritus of the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. His areas of interest were contemporary philosophy of science, the history of the philosophy of science, and the interactions both historical and philosophical between religious belief and the natural sciences.

He took degrees in physics and theology before being awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy of science at the University of Louvain in 1954. He taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1954 to 2003. He served as a visiting professor at the universities of Cape Town, Minnesota, UCLA, Princeton, and Yale.

He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy of the History of Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He served at different times as President of the four major philosophical associations in the United States.

He was the author or editor of 14 books and was also the author of more than 200 articles, the most recent of which are listed below.

Publications include

Books

• The Concept of Matter (1963)
• Galileo: Man of Science (1967)
• Newton on Matter and Activity (1978)
• The Inference That Makes Science (1992)
• The Church and Galileo (2005)

Articles

• “The impact of Newton’s Principia on the philosophy of science” (2001)
• “The origins of the field concept in physics” (2002)
• “Philosophy of science, 1950—2000” (2002)
• “Van Fraassen’s unappreciated realism” (2003)
• “Evolution as a Christian theme” (2005)
• “Tuning fine tuning” (2006)
• “Explanation as confirmation in Descartes’ natural philosophy” (in the press)
• “The virtues of a good theory” (in the press)
• “Hypothesis in early modern science” (in the press).

Mike McNamee is Professor of Applied Ethics at the University of Swansea. He teaches healthcare and medical ethics. His research interests are in the ethics of medicine and healthcare and the ethics of sports, and research ethics. He is a former President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, and was the founding Chair of the British Philosophy of Sport Association. He serves/has served on the Executive Committee on many national and international associations including the European College of Sport Science, the International Council for sport Science and Physical Education and the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. He is the founding Editor of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17511321.asp). He has written or edited (singly and in collaboration) 11 books in applied philosophy and ethics in sport and health, including Sports, Virtues and Vices: morality play (Routledge, 2008) (http://www.routledgesport.com/books/Sports-Virtues-and-Vices-isbn9780415194099) and he just completed the Routledge Reader in Sports Ethics (Routledge, 2010).

 

Neil Messer read Biochemistry at Bristol University and gained a PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, before training for ordination at Westminster College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1993 and served as Minister of Maidenhead United Reformed Church until 1997, during which time he also completed a Master’s degree in Christian Ethics at King’s College, London, and taught Christian Ethics at Mansfield College, Oxford. From 1998 until 2001 he was Tutor in Ethics at the Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, and Ministerial Training Officer for the West Midlands Synod of the United Reformed Church. In 2001 he moved to the University of Wales, Lampeter, where he is currently Senior Lecturer in Christian Ethics and Co-convenor of the Research Institute for Theology and Religious Studies.

Dr Messer’s research interests are in Christian ethics, with a particular focus on ethical issues in medicine, biology and biotechnology. He has recently completed a major theological study of evolution and ethics. Current projects include papers on assisted dying, human responsibilities in respect of non-human animals and further work on theology and evolution. His future plans include a study of theological concepts of health and disease and their bearing on a range of bioethical issues. Dr Messer is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics (having served on the Committee from 1999—2005), the Science and Religion Forum and the Association of Teachers of Moral Theology. He has given invited lectures and papers to a number of bodies, including the Science and Religion Forum. He has advised the Church in Wales and the United Reformed Church on bioethical issues, and recently participated in a Nuffield Council consultation with faith groups on the ethics of neonatal care.

Recent selected publications

Books

• Selfish Genes and Christian Ethics: Theological and Ethical Reflections on Evolutionary Biology, London: SCM, 2007.
• SCM Study Guide to Christian Ethics, London: SCM, 2006.
• Ed., Theological Issues in Bioethics: An Introduction with Readings, London: DLT, 2002.

Articles, chapters and other publications

• ‘“Ethics”, “Religious Ethics” and “Christian Ethics”: What Are Scholars For?’, in Theology and Religious Studies: An Exploration of Disciplinary Boundaries, ed. Maya Warrier and Simon Oliver, London: T & T Clark, forthcoming (2008).

• ‘Medicine, Science and Virtue’, in Future Perfect? God, Medicine and Human Identity, ed. Celia Deane-Drummond and Peter Scott, London: T & T Clark, 2006.
• ‘Healthcare Resource Allocation and the “Recovery of Virtue”’, Studies in Christian Ethics 18 (2005), 89–108.
• ‘Professional–Patient Relationships and Informed Consent’, Postgraduate Medical Journal, 80 (2004), 277–283.
• ‘The Human Genome Project, Health and the “Tyranny of Normality”’, in Brave New World? Theology, Ethics and the Human Genome Project, ed. C. Deane-Drummond, London: T & T Clark, 2003, 91–115.
• ‘Human Genetics and the Image of the Triune God’, Science and Christian Belief, 13 (2001), 99–111.
• The Ethics of Human Cloning (Cambridge: Grove, 2001).

Tom Millar holds a BSc in Mathematics and a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).  Following his PhD he held research fellowships in Toronto and Oxford before returning to UMIST where he was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Mathematics before becoming Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics in 1995.  He was subsequently served as Head of Department and Pro-Vice-Chancellor.  In 2006 he moved to Queen’s University Belfast as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and Professor of Astrophysics in the School of Mathematics and Physics.

His research interests are in the field of molecular astrophysics, at the intersection of physics, chemistry and astronomy. He makes use of radio and sub-millimeter wave telescopes in Hawaii, Chile and Sweden to study the emission lines of molecules as probes of the physics of star formation and the chemistry of space.

He has published more than 200 research articles and edited six books on astrophysics.
 

Kenneth R. Miller is Professor of Biology at Brown University. He did his undergraduate work at Brown, graduating in 1970. He earned his Ph.D. in 1974 at the University of Colorado, and spent six years teaching at Harvard University before returning to Brown. He is a cell biologist, and chairs the Education Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology. He serves as an advisor on life sciences to the News Hour, a daily PBS television program on news and public affairs, and in 2006 was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2005 he was presented with the Presidential Citation of the American Institute for Biological Sciences for distinguished contributions to the biological sciences. In December of 2006 he received the Public Service Award from the American Society for Cell Biology.

Miller's research work on cell membrane structure and function has produced more than 60 scientific papers and reviews in leading journals, including CELL and Nature, as well as leading popular sources such as Natural History and Scientific American. Miller is coauthor, with Joseph S. Levine, of three different high school and college biology textbooks used by millions of students throughout the United States and other countries.

One of Miller's principal interests is the public understanding of evolution. He has written a number of articles defending the scientific integrity of evolution, answering challenges such as “intelligent design”, and he served as lead witness in the 2005 trial on evolution and intelligent design in Dover, Pennsylvania. His popular book, Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution, addresses the scientific status of evolutionary theory and its relationship to religious views of nature.

Recent Selected Publications in Science and Religion

• Miller, K. R. (1999) Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution, New York: HarperCollins.
• Miller, K. R. (2002) The Flaw in the Mousetrap. Natural History (April), p. 75.
• Miller, K. R. (2003) Answering the Biochemical Argument from Design, pp. 292-307, in God & Design, Neil Manson, ed. Routeledge, New York.
• Miller, K. R. (2004) The Flagelum Unspun: The collapse of "irreducible complexity," in Debating Design, pp. 81-97. W. Dembski and M. Ruse, eds. Cambridge University Press, New York.
• Miller, K. R. (2005) Looking for God in all the Wrong Places: Answering the Religious Challenge to Evolution, in Evolutionary Science and Society: Educating a New Generation, pp. 13-21. J. Cracraft and R. W. Bybee, eds. Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Colorado Springs, CO.
• Miller, K. R. (2005) Darwin's Pope? Harvard Divinity Bulletin 33: 12-14. .

Recent Selected Science Publications

• Miller, K. R. (1994) The Big Green Machine. Nature Structural Biology 1: 204-206.
• Hanein, D., Matlack, K. E. S., Jungnickel, B., Plath, K., Kalies, K., Miller, K. R., Rapoport, T. A., and C. W. Akey (1996) Oligomeric Rings of the Sec6lp Complex Induced by Ligands Required for Protein Translocation, Cell 87 721-732.
• Meyer, T. H., Ménétret, J. F. , Breitling, R. , Miller, K. R., Akey, C. W., and Rapaport, T. A. (1999) The bacterial Sec Y/E translocation complex forms channel-like structures similar to those of the eukaryotic Sec6lp complex. Journal of Molecular Biology 285: 1789-1800.

Simon Mitton is an Affiliated Research Scholar in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge. His main field of interest is the history of astronomy in the 20th century. He has a book in press with Princeton University Press on the origin of structure in the universe and is currently writing a biographical history of astronomy for Cambridge University Press. He gives talks on the history of astronomy for cruise lines (e.g. Cunard), literary festivals (Hay-on-Wye), and astronomical societies (Society for Popular Astronomy). He is the Editor of the International Journal of Astrobiology.

Jonathan holds degrees in Biology and English (B.A., Lake Forest College, Illinois), Wildlife Ecology (M.S., Utah State University), and Theology (Cert. Biblical Studies, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Illinois; M.A. Old Testament, M.A. New Testament, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Massachusetts; Ph.D., University of Cambridge). His doctoral dissertation (2008) was entitled ‘Creation, Nature and Hope in Fourth Ezra’. He is member of the British New Testament Society, Christians in Science and the Society of Biblical Literature.

Recent Publications

• 'Review of Cosmology and New Testament Theology, edited by Jonathan T.Pennington and Sean M. McDonough'. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, forthcoming.
• ‘Environmental Unsustainability and a Biblical Vision of the Earth’s Future’. Pages 255-70, 288 in Creation in Crisis: Christian Perspectives on Sustainability, edited by Robert S. White. London: SPCK, 2009.
• ‘The Sea That is No More: Rev 21.1 and the Function of Sea Imagery in the Apocalypse of John’. Novum Testamentum 51 (2009): 148-67.
• 'Review of Environmental Stewardship: Critical Perspectives - Past and Present, edited by R. J. Berry'. Science and Christian Belief 20 (2008): 216-18.
• 'Romans 8.19-22 and Isaiah's Cosmic Covenant'. New Testament Studies 54 (2008): 74-89.
• 'A Messiah whom "the Many do not Know"? Rereading 4 Ezra 5:6-7'. Journal of Theological Studies NS 58 (2007): 525-36.

Recent papers presented:

• 'Continuity, discontinuity and hope: the contribution of New Testament eschatology to a distinvtively Christian environmental ethos'. Invited Tyndale Lecture in Ethics and Social Theology presented at the Tyndale Fellowship Triennial Conference, Cambridge, 9 July 2009.
• 'The Conversion of Ezra and a Reassessment of Fourth Ezra's "Apocalyptic" Theology of Creation'. Paper presented at the Hebrew, Jewish and Early Christian Studies Seminar, University of Cambridge, 19 January 2009.
• ‘Eden, Earth and Eschatology in 4 Ezra’. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, USA, 24 November 2008.
• ‘Romans 8.19-22 and Isaiah’s Cosmic Covenant’. Paper presented at the Senior New Testament Seminar, University of Cambridge, 6 March 2007.
• ‘Natural Law and the Created Order in Fourth Ezra’. Paper presented at the Oxbridge Biblical Studies Day Conference, University of Oxford, 26 May 2006.
• ‘Duff, the new Wenham: Review of Jeremy Duff’s Elements of New Testament Greek’. Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Study Day for Teachers of Greek, University of Cambridge, 11 May 2006.

Douglas Moo is Blanchard Professor of New Testament,Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, USA. He is Chair of the Committee on Bible Translation charged with oversight of the NIV and TNIV Bibles.

Professor Moo has a particular interest in the way the created world is presented in the New Testament, with implications for current environmental issues.

Recent Publications in New Testament Studies

• The Old Testament in the Gospel Passion Narratives. Sheffield: Almond, 1983 (reprint; Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, 2008).
• "'Law,' 'Works of the Law' and Legalism in Paul." Westminster Theological Journal 45 (1983): 73-100.
• "Jesus and the Authority of the Mosaic Law." Journal for the Study of the New Testament  20 (1984): 3-49.
• "The Problem of Sensus Plenior." In Hermeneutics, Authority, Canon, ed. D. A. Carson and J. D. Woodbridge.  Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1986.
• "Israel and Paul in Romans 7.7-12." New Testament Studies 32 (1986): 122-35.
• "Paul and the Law in the Last Ten Years." Scottish Journal of Theology 40 (1987): 287-307.
• A Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. New International Commentary on the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.
• The Epistle of James.  Pillar Commentary.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.
• Introduction to the New Testament. Revised ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005 (with D. A. Carson).
• "Israel and the Law in Romans 5-11: Interaction with the New Perspective." In Justification and Variegated Nomism: The Teaching of Paul, ed. D. A. Carson, Mark Seifrid, and Peter O'Brien. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.
• "The Christology of the Early Pauline Letters."  In Contours of Christology in the New Testament, ed. R. N. Longenecker, 169-92. Grand Rapds: Eerdmans, 2005.

Recent Publications in Science and Religion

• "Nature in the New Creation: New Testament Eschatology and the Environment." Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 49 (2006): 449-88.

Dr Pete Moore is a multi-award winning science communicator and author. As well as journalistic and PR writing, he has published more than a dozen published books that address different aspects of science, technology and ethics. He is an Honorary Fellow in Ethics at Trinity College Bristol, Director of The Wonder Project and a Tutor for the MSc Science communication Course at the University of the West of England in Bristol. He leads training courses on different aspects of writing and editing both in the UK and Europe.

Dr. Moore is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, was Chairman of the Medical Journalists' Association (2002) and is a member of the Physiological Society, the Association of British Science Writers, the Society of Authors and Toastmasters International. Dr Moore has also acted as rapporteur at consultations held at St George's House, Windsor Castle and at private consultations organised by the Christian Medical Fellowship held within the House of Lords.

Recent selected publications

• Moore, P. (2008) Enhancing Me: The Hope and Hype of Human Enhancement. John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
• Moore, P. (2006) The little book of big ideas: Science. A & C Black.
• Moore, P. (2005) E=mc2. Friedman/Fairfax Publishing.
• Moore, P. (2004) The Forensic Handbook. Eye Books.
• Moore, P. (2003) Being Me. John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
• Moore, P. (2002) Blood and Justice. John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
• Moore, P. (2002) Killer Germs. London, Carlton Books.
• Moore, P. (2002) l's Shadow. Oxford, Lion.
• Moore, P. (2001) Superbugs. London, Carlton Books Ltd.
• Moore, P. (1997) Pregnancy: A Testing Time. Oxford : Lion.
• Moore, P. (1996) Trying for a Baby. Oxford, Lion.

Michael Murray is ta Senior Visiting Scholar in Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, PA). He received his B.A. at Franklin & Marshall College, and his M.A, and Ph.D at the University of Notre Dame.  He has held fellowships from the Institute for Research in the Humanities (Madison, Wisconsin), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion, and Oxford University.  In addition to a variety of articles in the history of philosophy and the philosophy of religion, he has recently published Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge, with Michael Rea) and Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering (Oxford), The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion (Oxford, with Jeffrey Schloss), and Predestination and Election (Yale) and Divine Evil? (Oxford, with Michael Rea and Michael Bergmann).

Dr. Newsome is Professor of Neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He received a B.S. degree in physics from Stetson University, a Ph.D. degree in biology from the California Institute of Technology, and did postdoctoral research at the National Eye Institute. Dr. Newsome was on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook before moving to Stanford. Among his many honours are the Rank Prize in optoelectronics, the Spencer Award from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association, and the Dan David Prize from the Dan David Foundation and Tel Aviv University. Dr. Newsome is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

William Newsome's research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception, visually based decision making, and related issues in cognitive neuroscience. He seeks to understand how higher mammals acquire sensory information about the world, how that information is processed within the brain, and how behavioral responses to that information are organized.

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.

Michael Northcott is Reader in Christian Ethics in the School of Divinity of Edinburgh University. He is also an Anglican Priest. He was Visiting Professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, North Carolina in 2005, and at the Claremont School of Theology in California in 2002. He has written many papers on ecological ethics and his book The Environment and Christian Ethics was published by Cambridge University Press in 1996. He has been working on the ethics of climate change since 2005 and his book A Moral Climate? The Ethics of Global Warming will be published by Darton Longman and Todd and Orbis Press in 2007. His last book An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire was published by I. B. Tauris in 2004.

Ronald L Numbers is Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine and a member of the department of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught for three decades. He has written or edited more than two dozen books, including, most recently, Darwinism Comes to America (Harvard University Press, 1998), Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion and Gender (Cambridge University Press, 1999) coedited with John Stenhouse, and When Science and Christianity Meet (University of Chicago Press, 2003) coedited with David Lindberg.

For five years (1989-1993) he edited Isis, the flagship journal of the history of science. He is writing a history of science in America (for Basic Books), editing a series of monographs on the history of medicine, science, and religion for the Johns Hopkins University Press, and coediting, with David Lindberg, the eight-volume Cambridge History of Science. A former Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the International Academy of the History of Science. He is a past president of both the History of Science Society and the American Society of Church History. In 2005 he was elected to a four-year term as president of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science/Division of History of Science and Technology.

Timothy O’Connor is professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Indiana University and a member of its Cognitive Sciences Program. He received the Ph.D. in philosophy in 1992 from Cornell University. He has been a research fellow at the University of Notre Dame and the University of St. Andrews. Dr. O'Connor is a specialist in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. He has lectured widely in the U.S., Europe, and Asia and is the author of fifty scholarly articles  and two books and is a contributing editor of five other volumes.

Dr O’Connor has written extensively on philosophical questions concerning human free will. In the last several years, He has become especially interested in considering the emerging sciences of brain and behavior and the question of whether and how they pose challenges to ordinary notions of freedom and moral responsibility. He is also interested in exploring God's causal relation to the universe and the relationship of theistic and scientific explanations.

Dr O’Connor’s 2008 book Theism and Ultimate Explanation touches on some preliminary science-religion issues. He has recently lectured on the in-built limits of scientific explanation and the complementary role of theistic explanations. He has also taught university courses addressing this topic, as well as a first-year university course entitled "Philosophical Reflections on Evolution and Religion." He hopes to write a book in the near future on the relationship of science, philosophy, and religious faith.
 

Recent selected publications

• Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.

• Downward Causation and The Neurobiology of Free Will, co-edited with George F. R. Ellis, and Nancey Murphy.

• Understanding Complex Systems series, New York: Springer Publications, 2009.

• A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, co-edited with Constantine Sandis. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010.

• Emergence in Science and Philosophy, co-edited with Antonella Corradini, Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science, London: Routledge, 2010.

• “Conscious Willing and the Emerging Sciences of Brain and Behavior,” in George F. R. Ellis, Nancey Murphy, and Timothy O’Connor, eds.,

• Downward Causation And The Neurobiology Of Free Will. New York: Springer Publications, 2009: 173-186.

• “Emergence and the Metaphysics of Group Cognition” (with Georg Theiner), in Timothy O’Connor and Antonella Corradini, eds., Emergence in Science and Philosophy. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of  Science, Routledge, 2010: 78-117.

• “Is Nonreductive Physicalism Viable Within a Causal Powers Metaphysic?” (with John Ross Churchill), in Graham and Cynthia Macdonald, eds., Emergence in Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010: 43-60.

• “Emergent Individuals and the Resurrection” (with Jonathan D. Jacobs), European Journal For Philosophy of Religion 2, 2010: 69-88.

• “Agent Causal Theories,” in Robert Kane, ed., Oxford Handbook of Free Will, 2nd Rev. Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, forthcoming.

• “Agent Causation in a Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics” (with Jonathan D. Jacobs), for R.D. Ingthorsson and Sophie Gibb, eds., Mental Causation and Ontology. Oxford University Press, 2011, forthcoming.

• “Religious Pluralism,” in K. Timpe, ed., Arguing About Religion. New York: Routledge, 2009: 81-92.

• “The Argument from Consciousness Revisited” (with Kevin Kimble), Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Religion 3, 2011: 110-141.

• “The Philosophical Implications of Emergence,” in James Haag, Gregory Peterson, and Michael Spezio, eds., Routledge Companion to Religion and Science. Routledge, 2011, forthcoming.

 

Donal P O'Mathuna, BSc(Pharm), MA, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Decision-Making & Evidence in the School of Nursing, Dublin City University (DCU). He is also Visiting Professor of Bioethics at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. Donal’s original training was in pharmacy, but his recent research and teaching has focused on bioethics. Donal is Chair of the DCU Research Ethics Committee and a member of the St James’s Hospital Patients Ethics Committee.

Donal's research interests include bioethics and evidence-based practice. Through the DCU Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, he has become interested in the ethical issues involving nanotechnology. This builds on his general interest in new technologies and their potential impact on human dignity. This has led to a growing interest in posthumanism and developing a response its advocates. He is also concerned about the funding of health research and how this impacts developing countries. Human dignity also underlies his interest in the ethics of torture. Another general theme in Donal's research is the role of film and popular music in teaching ethics. Donal maintains his research interest in pharmacy through conducting systematic reviews as part of the Cochrane Collaboration.

Donal's interest in issues of science and religion involve the underlying basis for ethical decision-making. Underlying Donal's ethics is a commitment to biblical Christianity as the basis for his values and world-view. Guidance on modern bioethical dilemmas can be found in the Bible, and one of Donal's on-going interests is developing methods for this approach. Doing this also involves being able to defend a Christian perspective on ethics in secular and pluralistic settings. Another related interest is the role of spirituality in health and medicine, in particular how these are presented within complementary and alternative medicine. Donal is a committee member for the Ireland branch of Christians in Science.

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Recent Publications

• "Evil to Prevent Evil: The Ethics of Torture," in Against Doing Nothing. Edited by Shilinka Smith and Shona Hill, pp. 39-50. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010.
• Nanoethics: Big Ethical Issues with Small Technology. London: Continuum Press, 2009.
• "Trust and Clinical Research," Research Practitioner 10.5 (September-October 2009): 170-77.
• "The Ethics of Torture in 24: Shockingly Banal," in 24 and Philosophy: The World According to Jack. Edited by Jennifer Hart Weed, Richard Davis and Ronald Weed, pp. 91-104. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
• "Teaching Ethics Using Popular Songs: Feeling and Thinking," Monash Bioethics Review, 27.1-2 (January-April 2008): 42-55.
• "Conceiving Technological Conception: Bioethics and Personhood," in Culture, Technology & Values: Ethical Dimensions of European Identity. Edited by Michael J. Breen and Eamonn Conway, pp. 125-138. Paragon Press, 2008.
• "Decision-Making and Health Research: Ethics and the 10/90 Gap," Research Practitioner 8.5 (September-October 2007): 164-172.
• "Bioethics and Biotechnology," Cytotechnology 53.1-3 (April 2007): 113-119. "Human Dignity in the Nazi Era: Implications for Current Bioethics," BMC Medical Ethics, 7.2 (March 2006): Epub: www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6939/7/2.
• "Genetic Technology, Enhancement, and Christian Values," National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 2.2 (Summer 2002): 277-295.

Recent Publications on Science and Religion

• "Medicine vs. Prayer: The Case of Kara Nuemann," Pediatric Nursing, 34.5 (September-October 2008): 413-416.
• Donal O'Mathuna, & Walt Larimore, Alternative Medicine: The Christian Handbook. Updated and Expanded Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2007.
• "Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Where Medicine and Religion Meet," in The Phenomenon of Cults from a Scientific Perspective. Edited by Piotr T. Nowakowski, pp. 296-310. Cracow: Dom Wydawniczy Rafael, 2007.
• "Sickness and Disease," in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books. Edited by Bill T. Arnold and H. G. M. Williamson, pp. 895-899. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005.
• "Bodily Injuries, Murder, Manslaughter," in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch. Edited by David W. Baker and Desmond Alexander, pp. 90-94. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002.
• "The Vertical Context: Prayer and Bioethics," in BioEngagement: Making a Christian Difference through Bioethics Today. Edited by Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Scott E. Daniels, and Barbara J. White, pp. 57-67. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000.
• "'Why me, God?' Understanding Suffering," Ethics & Medicine 15.2 (1999): 44-52.
• "Did Paul Condone Suicide? Implications for Assisted Suicide and Active Euthanasia." Reprinted in Suicide: A Christian Response. Crucial Considerations for Choosing Life. Edited by Timothy J. Demy and Gary P. Stewart, 387-397. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1998.
• "But The Bible Doesn’t Say They Were Wrong to Commit Suicide, Does It?" in Suicide: A Christian Response. Crucial Considerations for Choosing Life. Edited by Timothy J. Demy and Gary P. Stewart, 349-366. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1998.
• "The Bible and Abortion: What of the 'Image of God'?" in Bioethics and the Future of Medicine: A Christian Appraisal. Edited by John F. Kilner, Nigel M. de S. Cameron, and David L. Schiedermayer, 199-211. Carlisle, UK: Paternoster Press, 1995.

Alan Padgett is Professor of Systematic Theology at Luther Seminary, St Paul, Minnesota. He is currently on leave as the Crossan Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame (2006-2007).

Professor Padgett holds the degrees of BA (Vanguard), MDiv (Drew) and DPhil (Oxon). He has held numerous academic positions, including temporary lecturer at the University of Durham, instructor in philosophy at Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, and adjunct professor at Vanguard University. After these posts he was called to be adjunct professor and assistant professor of philosophy at Bethel College, St Paul, and then he was Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Science at Azusa Pacific University.

Professor Padgett is most particularly interested in the dialogue between theology and science, as well as Christian ethics and spirituality and systematic theology. He is the editor/co-editor of three book series, as well as the online theology journal, Journal for Christian Theological Research (www.jctr.org). He is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Center for Theology and Natural Science, the International Society for Science and Religion, the Christian Theological Research Fellowship and the Society of Christian Philosophers.

Recent selected publications

• Science and the Study of God: A Mutuality Model for Theology and Science (Eerdmans, 2003)
• Introducing Christianity (with Sally Bruyneel) (Orbis, 2003)
• God and Time: Four Views (with Nicholas Wolterstorff, Paul Helm and William Lane Craig) (InterVarsity, 2001)
• Christianity and Western Thought, vol II: Faith and Reason in the Nineteenth Century (with Steven Wilkens) (InterVarsity, 2000)

Don Page is a Professor of Physics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Growing up in Alaskan villages, he completed his high school education by correspondence through the University of Nebraska Extension Division. He received his B.A. in Physics and Mathematics, summa cum laude, from William Jewell College in Missouri, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. thesis, "Accretion into and Emission from Black Holes", was supervised by Kip S. Thorne and Stephen Hawking. Dr. Page then moved to the University of Cambridge, England, where he held a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science, worked as a research assistant under Prof. Hawking, and received an M.A.

From 1979 to 1990, Dr. Page was a member of the Physics Department of the Pennsylvania State University. During this period, he held visiting positions at the University of Texas at Austin, the California Institute of Technology, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Alberta. In 1990, he moved to the University of Alberta. Dr. Page has been a member of CIAR's Cosmology and Gravity Program since 1987, and was a CIAR Fellow from 1991-2002.

Research Interests:

The goal of quantum cosmology is to try to understand the universe as a whole within the current fundamental framework of physics, quantum theory. Quantum theory normally differs significantly from classical theory only for small systems, so one may question its application to the entire universe. However, the universe was apparently once so small that a quantum description would have been essential. The present universe may be viewed as a relic of processes that occurred in its very early evolution. Thus a quantum understanding of these processes may help explain certain basic features observed today. For example, the observed cosmos is large, old, nearly flat, fairly homogeneous and isotropic at the largest observable distances, lumpy and complex on smaller scales, and out of thermal equilibrium, exhibiting a pervasive arrow of time. These basic features are mysterious, in the sense that it would apparently be consistent with our present theoretical understanding of physics for the universe not to have any of these properties. Can we enlarge our understanding to include fundamental principles that would explain these observed features of the cosmos? In particular, we need principles for the boundary conditions of the universe, to select the actual universe from the apparently infinite set of possible universes obeying the same complete set of dynamical laws. There have recently been proposals for this that would specify the quantum state of the universe, such as the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary proposal and the Vilenkin tunneling proposal. Research is being done on the implications of these and other proposals to see whether or not they can explain the observed features of our mysterious universe.

Recent Selected Publications

Professor Joe Perry is a quantitative ecologist at Rothamsted Research. His interests are in spatio-temporal dynamics of insect and plant populations; risk assessment for GM crops; biometry in ecology; effects of agriculture on farmland biodiversity; and bioethics of GM. He was awarded a DSc degree by the University of Reading in 1989. Since 1994 he has been Visiting Professor of Biometry at the University of Greenwich. In 1998 he received the Distinguished Statistical Ecologist Award of the International Association for Ecology. He was elected to Fellowship of the Institute of Biology in 2002. In 2004 he was a Visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is currently President of the British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society.

Science and Religion Papers

• Perry, J.N. (2001) Genetically Modified Crops. pp. 22-91 in: Genetic Engineering, Volume XV in the 'Christ and the Cosmos' series. Edited by Brenda Beamond. Proceedings of the Consultation held in London Colney, 20-22 April 2001. ISBN 0953036057.
• Perry, J.N. (2002) Genetically Modified Crops. pp. 115-122 in: Genetically Modified Foods: Debating Technology. Edited by Michael Ruse & David Castle. Prometheus Books ('Contemporary Issues' series), New York, ISBN: 1-57392-996-4. 350pp.
• Perry, J.N. (2003) Genetically-Modified Crops. Science & Christian Belief, 15, 141-163.
• Kean (2004). Report on: Is GM God’s will?. Science & Religion Forum Discussion between Joe Perry and John Bryant at The British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting 6-10 September 2004, Exeter.
• Perry, J.N. (2005) Powerpoint slides and Abstract from the invited talk: ‘Some bioethical issues concerned in minimising harmful impacts of agriculture on biodiversity in arable ecosystems’, given at Seminar 4 (‘Ethical Production and Protection’) in the ESRC Transdisciplinary Seminar Series: ‘Approaches to Sustainable Farmland Management’, Royal Geographic Society, London, 18 January 2005.

Selected Recent Papers

• Firbank, L.G., Perry, J.N., Squire, G.R., Bohan, D.A., Brooks, D.R., Champion, G.T., Clark, S.J., Daniels, R.E., Dewar, A.M., Haughton, A.J., Hawes, C., Heard, M.S., Hill, M.O., May, M.J., Osborne, J.L., Rothery, P., Scott, R.J. & Woiwod, I.P. (2003) The implications of spring-sown genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops for farmland biodiversity: A commentary on the Farm Scale Evaluations of Spring Sown Crops. ISBN 0-85521-036-2. Published on the Defra website.
• Perry, J.N., Firbank, L.G., Champion, G.T., Clark, S.J., Heard, M.S., May, M.J., Hawes, C., Squire, G.R., Rothery, P., Woiwod, I.P. & Pidgeon, J.D. (2004) Ban on triazine herbicides likely to reduce but not negate relative benefits of GMHT maize cropping. Nature, 428, 313 – 316.
• Bohan, D.A., Boffey, C.W.H., Brooks, D.R., Clark, S.J., Dewar, A.M., Firbank, L.G., Haughton, A.J., Hawes, C., Heard, M.S., May, M.J., Osborne, J.L., Perry, J.N., Rothery, P., Roy, D.B., Scott, R.J., Squire, G.R., Woiwod, I.P. & Champion, G.T. (2005) Effects on weed and invertebrate abundance and diversity of herbicide management in genetically modified herbicide-tolerant winter-sown oilseed rape. Proc. R. Soc. series B., 272, 463 – 474.
• Alexander, C.J., Holland, J.M., Winder, L., Wooley, C. & Perry, J.N. (2005) Performance of sampling strategies in the presence of known spatial patterns. Annals of Applied Biology, 146, 361-370.
• Winder , L., Alexander, C.J., Holland, J.M., Symondson, W.O.C., Perry, J.N. & Woolley, C. (2005) Predatory activity and spatial pattern: the response of generalist carabids to their aphid prey. Journal of Animal Ecology, 77, 443-454.
• Heard, M.S., Rothery, P., Perry, J.N. & Firbank, L.G.