Join Carroll College for their First Annual Lecture on Faith and Reason where guest lecturer Professor Barr, from Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Delaware, will argue that the supposed conflict between science and religion has really been a conflict between "scientific materialism" and religion. The science-versus-religion myth is based on an outdated view of scientific history and a skewed interpretation of what science has actually discovered. He will begin by telling the story of the relation between Christianity and science, including some dramatic facts that are relatively little known. He will then discuss five great discoveries of the twentieth century, primarily in physics, and argue that they are more consonant with the traditional Jewish and Christian view of the cosmos and of human beings than with materialist philosophy.

This event is free and open to the public.