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Jubilee Conference

Chesterton House - Residence 111 The Knoll Rd, Ithaca, New York

The Jubilee Conference is about living faithfully in every area of life.  From the Jubilee Website: For 36 years, we’ve invited over 60,000 college students to Pittsburgh to talk, learn, think, and dream about the public implications of their personal transformation. Jubilee is a conference like you’ve never experienced before. Whether you’re interested in engineering and science […]

The Metaphysical Hobbit: From Mind to God and Back Again

Klarman Hall Auditorium

Three candidates for a coherent, comprehensive account of reality have impressive credentials: materialism, natural teleology and theism. However, several features of the human mind favor theism over materialism and natural teleology: consciousness, our ability to comprehend the cosmos, and our moral evaluations. These features of the mind appear to require a personal (theistic) explanation. So […]

Has Science Killed the Soul?

Chesterton House - 111 and 115 The Knoll

Graduate Christian Fellowship Roundtable Many claim that the findings of neuroscience have made it impossible to believe in an immaterial soul—a substantial center of consciousness with libertarian free will.  For example, in his The Illusion of Conscious Will (MIT Press, 2002), Daniel Wegner claims that specific experimental findings—such as Benjamin Libet’s experiments on decision-making and various “automatisms”—show that […]

On Failure

Chesterton House - 111 and 115 The Knoll

Chi Alpha Fellowship meeting

C. S. Lewis on Reason & Imagination in Science & Religion

Klarman Hall Auditorium

* CLICK HERE TO LINK TO LIVESTREAM   "the foremost living Lewis scholar" - N.T. Wright Although he was a literary historian, not a scientist or a theologian, C.S. Lewis has much to say of interest regarding the interface between science and religion because of his scholarly study of the sixteenth century and, in particular, […]

Dreams Become Responsibility

Chesterton House - Residence 111 The Knoll Rd, Ithaca, New York

This is an invitation-only event for Chesterton House supporters. If you are interested in being on the invitation list, please email [email protected]. The event begins with a reception at 6:30pm, followed by a lecture at 7, and a reception following.

Untangling Science and Purpose: The Creation Account of Genesis through Ancient Eyes

Chesterton House - Residence 111 The Knoll Rd, Ithaca, New York

Graduate Christian Fellowship Roundtable   The rift between faith and science in Christian circles today often results in the marginalization of Christians engaged in the sciences, impediments to evangelism, and the attrition of young believers who are told that Christianity is incompatible with the acceptance of evolution or an old earth. John Walton’s work in […]

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