Michael Murray, executive vice president for the John Templeton Foundation, will deliver the 2011 Jellema Lectures on Wednesday and Thursday, April 13-14.
Murray's lecture, titled "Evolution Matters: Does Evolution Explain Religion?" will be held on Wednesday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. His second lecture, titled "Evolution Matters: Death, Predation, Extinction and ... a Loving Creator?," will be held on Thursday, April 14, at 3:30 p.m. Both lectures will take place in the Covenant Fine Arts Center Recital Hall.
As part of his work at the Templeton Foundation, Murray creates research initiatives that engage Big Questions in the philosophy and theology fields and their intersection with the sciences. Murray is also a well-published author on these topics. Before joining the Foundation, he was the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Humanities Professor of Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College.
The Jellema lecture series began in 1985 and was named after the founder of Calvin's philosophy department, William Harry Jellema. He taught at Calvin in two different stints, from 1920-1936 and from 1948-1963. Three of Jellema's former students have been elected president of the American Philosophical Association.
For more info on the Jellema lectures contact Calvin's philosophy department at 616-526-6488 or visit http://www.calvin.edu/academic/philosophy/lecture-series
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