Gifford Lectures

[Severian]

For anyone who will be in the Glasgow area in April, you may be interested in the latest round of Gifford Lectrues:

 

http://www.giffordlectures.org/news.asp#item08

 

There are letcures on "Natural Theology" (i.e. the interplay between theology and the natural world) so although they don't need to have anything to do with science, quite often they do. Richard Dawkins gave one set of lectures a few years ago for example, and last year Martin Rees gave some lectures on “21st Century Science: Cosmic Perspective and Terrestrial Challenges.”

 

On April 10 there will be a lecture entitled "The implausibility of religious belief: claims and counterclaims" which sounds quite interesting.

[Reaper]

Sounds interesting. As I won't be traveling out of North America any time soon, is there a chance that they would be posted up in a PDF format or something, for other people to view?

[insane_alien]

damn, i can only make the first one. i'll be on holiday and doing other stuff during the other ones. also, i'm banned from the GU so i'd have to find another pub.