Reconciling the Image of God with the Scientific Image of Human Persons | Dr. Daniel De Haan
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🗓️ 18 March 2024
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This lecture was given on September 28th, 2023, at the University of Edinburgh.
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About the speaker:
Dr. Daniel De Haan is a Research Fellow of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. He is working on the Renewal of Natural Theology Project directed by Professor Alister McGrath. Before coming to Oxford, De Haan was a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge working on the neuroscience strand of the Templeton World Charity Foundation Fellowships in Theology, Philosophy of Religion, and the Sciences Project, directed by Sarah Coakley. During this postdoctoral fellowship, he conducted research on the intersections of theology, philosophy, and neuroscience in Lisa Saksida’s Translational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.
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| 0:59.4 | So thank you so much for this invitation. I love coming to Edinburgh. This is a welcome invitation to come up here and visit you all. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm going to aim for somewhere around 30 or 45 minutes and hopefully have plenty of time for question and answer. |
| 1:13.4 | There's two ways that these kind of talks can go. |
| 1:16.5 | One is they can kind of go in a piecemeal fashion, focusing in on, you know, |
| 1:21.8 | incidents of single examples from a scientific experiment about the world, about humans, |
| 1:26.2 | that somehow puts in questions, |
| 1:28.3 | certain questions, issues or pices or doctrines as matters of faith. And that's not going to be |
| 1:35.4 | the approach that I'm taking tonight. I'm going to look at two kind of broad meta sort of issues |
| 1:39.9 | that will have application for those kind of more piece of mill topic by topic. And so in the Q&A, maybe some of those |
| 1:46.5 | questions could be fielded in those directions, the more specific issues. I will pretend to say something |
| 1:54.6 | about physics and chemistry if you ask me difficult questions about that. And I will pretend very well |
| 1:59.2 | to answer questions about neuroscience and psychology, |
| 2:01.6 | which I have a little bit more of a background in. So my talk this evening is entitled, |
| 2:05.6 | Reconciling the Image of God with the scientific image of human persons. And I'm a philosopher, |
| 2:11.6 | so I think everything kind of gets mediated through philosophy. So even though it starts off with a |
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