Presenting Rev. Chris Barrigar
Posted on: Oct 24, 2017
The Institute for Christian Studies & Society and the Theology & Science Research Cluster are hosting聽Rev. Chris Barrigar on聽Friday, October 27th, 2017 at 12:00 Noon in Room HA310聽
Rev. Chris Barrigar聽will present聽God鈥檚 Agape/Probability Design of the Universe.
Is God鈥檚 design in nature evident from specific biological interventions to bring about humanity? Or is it best to see God at work in the fundamental physics, chemistry, laws, and mathematics behind it all? Come join us for a talk by Chris Barrigar (Ph.D. Philosophy, McGill) based on his recent book, Freedom All The Way Up: God and the Meaning of Life in a Scientific Age. Barrigar finds that traditional accounts of design don鈥檛 pay enough attention to why God would create a universe with things like randomness, probabilistic physics, thermodynamics, and massively-large numbers (such as numbers of stars or neurons). These things are central to God鈥檚 great 鈥榝reedom system鈥�, providing a blend of regularities, laws, probabilities, and randomness 鈥榓ll the way up鈥�. This is what makes it possible, Chris suggests, for humans to choose, or reject, lives of agape-love toward God and others.