Science and Religion Study Group

Since 1997 LOPC has sponsored a Science and Religion Study Group, where attendees have been working to clarify their own Christian faith and the bridge between Science and Religion. The only requirement to attend is to have an interest and a desire to understand.

Science and Religion meets from September to June on the 3rd Monday of the month 7:15 ‑ 9 p.m. in the Davies room. 

This year the Science and Religion Study Group is using Ian Barbour’s book When Science Meets Religions: Enemies, Strangers or Partners to guide discussions.

In 2008 we will discuss “Natural Evil and a Loving, All Powerful God”, “Big Bang Cosmology and Christian End Times”, “Consciousness and Religion” and “Does Our View of God Change if Life Exist on Other Planets”.

In previous years the group discussed Determinism, Assumptions of Science and the Christian Tradition, Effectiveness of Prayer, Process Theology, Panentheism, Big Bang Cosmology, Evolution, Quantum Theory.  The group approaches these topics with the creed "Faith seeking Understanding".  Always the question is, "How can we best describe the God who is at work in this complex universe ‑‑‑ a universe in which there is so much beauty and so much pain?"

Please visit and participate in the discussion or contact one of the group's co‑leaders, Doug Clarke, Ed Schoenberger or Howard Robbins.