This Friday night, Andover Baptist church in Linthicum will be hosting a lecture and discussion led by John Byl (Ph.D. in Astronomy and winner of a 1999 Templeton Science and Religion Course Award). The lecture is entitled “Matter, Mind, Math,and Meaning: Did Science Kill God?” and will began at 7pm on October 12th at 1009 Andover Road, Linthicum, MD. Here is more from Andover’s website:
We live in a world of relative comfort and historically unprecedented longevity, health, wealth, and ease. Standing behind all the technological glory of modernity—iPods, transcontinental flights, and cell phones—is science. Her reign is almost total and seems to be unstoppably progressive. Science rules.
But did science kill God? Did the cumulative effect of technological developments in scientific instruments, harnessing the power of nature, and medical advances necessitate the dwindling of the God concept? Doesn’t a bit of education and a dose of common sense require that God be dead or at best a psychological comfort for the weak, the simple, and the uneducated? And if science didn’t kill God, why not?
All are invited, but especially professional scientists and mathematicians and those interested in the intersection of science and faith. The event is hosted by Andover Baptist Church.