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Recent Events

Recent Events

Morals Without God?

Jeffrey Schloss - Distinguished Professor and T. B. Walker Chair of Biology at Westmont College
Frans de Waal - C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior, Emory University  

Wednesday, February 20 at 7:00 pm
Cox Ballroom


Join The Veritas Forum for an in-depth conversation on evolution, morality, and religion between two experts, Professors Frans de Waal and Jeff Schloss.

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Presenters

Jeffrey Schloss

Jeffrey Schloss

Distinguished Professor and T. B. Walker Chair of Biology, Westmont College

Jeffrey P. Schloss has held teaching appointments at the University of Michigan, Wheaton College, and the Global Stewardship Study Program. He has been a Danforth Fellow, a Crosson Fellow at the University of Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion, and a Plummer Fellow at Oxford University. He writes and speaks widely on the interdisciplinary implications of evolutionary approaches to altruism and morality.

Frans de Waal

Frans de Waal

C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior, Emory University

Dr. de Waal received his Ph.D. in Biology and Zoology from Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in 1977. He has been a National Academy of Sciences member since 2004, and a Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences member since 1993. Time featured him in 2007 as one of the World's One Hundred Most Influential People. He is also the Director of Living Links at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.

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History at Emory

Scientism

Since its beginning, science has demonstrated its uncapped ability to uncover and explain our universe... or has it? In 2012, The Veritas Forum at Emory invited MIT professor Ian Hutchinson to discuss science, faith, and how we come to know the world. In "The Scientism Delusion?", Hutchinson opens up a world in which multiple ways of knowing, including science, are equally legitimate. Among them, Hutchinson argues, is faith.

NT Wright

In 2008, The Veritas Forum at Emory welcomed New Testament scholar N.T. Wright to explain common misunderstandings about heaven, souls, and resurrection with historical and Biblical insights. "Why does Jesus' Resurrection matter?" How does the resurrection relate to everyday life ... and the afterlife?