Theme: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think, Re-act, Re-create

Topic: The Exuberant Universe: Re-thinking Creation in a Scientific Age

Presenter(s): Thomas A. Moore

The first chapter of Genesis provides a theological understanding of creation consistent with the accepted cosmology of its place and time. What might a modern concept of creation look like? This talk will explore the modern cosmological riddle misleadingly called the Anthropic Principle (the observation that the laws of physics seem fine-tuned to enable a complex universe) and examine what it means, what it does not mean, and how it might connect to process thought and spirituality. We will come to see how some seemingly scientific discussions of cosmology actually are religious arguments in disguise.

About the Presenter(s)

Thomas A. Moore is the Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow professor of mathematics and natural science at Pomona College. He received his undergraduate education at Carleton College (where he took courses offered by Ian Barbour and Joseph Sittler) and his Ph. D in theoretical physics in 1981 from Yale University (where he also studied Biblical Hebrew with Bonnie Kittel and Brevard Childs). His father was a professor of philosophy and religion in the University of Wisconsin system, and his mother and spouse are ordained pastors in the United Church of Christ. He has long been interested in questions on the boundary between philosophy and physics, and, in addition to teaching upper-level courses in general relativity and particle physics, he commonly offers an interdisciplinary course in “Science and Religion.”

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