Conference on Science and Religion: Christian and Muslim Perspectives

Conference on Science and Religion: Christian and Muslim Perspectives

The international conference on "Science and Religion: Christian and Muslim Perspectives", jointly organized by Bahçeşehir University, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Georgetown University, will be held on 16 June 2009 at the BConf Hall on Bahçeşehir University's Beşiktaş campus. This conference is part of the eighth seminar of the Archbishop of Canterbury's "Building Bridges" series, held this year at Bahçeşehir University.

Featuring papers by leading experts from various countries, the conference will be a platform for examining and discussing the relationship between religion and science according to the Christian and Islamic scriptures, as well as classical texts that have written on and interpreted this subject historically. Approaching the subject from both a contemporary and a historical perspective, the conference will reveal the nature of the relationship between religion and science and will be closely followed both in our country and around the world.

The full-day conference will begin at 10:00 on Tuesday, 16 June 2009 at the Bahçeşehir University Grand Conference Hall, with Turkish-English simultaneous interpretation.

The Archbishop of Canterbury's Eighth "Building Bridges" Seminar

Georgetown University, Washington

Bahçeşehir University, İstanbul

Science and Religion: Christian and Muslim Perspectives

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Bahçeşehir University, Beşiktaş

Bconf Hall
 

10:00 - 10:30
Opening Speech: Prof. Dr. Deniz Ülke Arıboğan (President of Bahçeşehir University)

Introduction: Prof. Dr. Rowan Williams (Archbishop of Canterbury)

 

10:30 - 12:00
The Doctrine of Creation and the Scientific Mind

Chair: Prof. Dr. Alparslan Açıkgenç (Fatih University)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ebrahim Moosa (Duke University)

Prof. Dr. Michael Welker (University of Heidelberg)

 

14:00 - 15:30
Science and Religion in the Histories of Christianity and Islam

Chair: Prof. Dr. Bekir Karlığa (Bahçeşehir University)

Prof. Dr. John Hedley Brooke (University of Oxford)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Dallal (Georgetown University)

 

16:00 - 17:30
Science and Religious Belief in the Modern World: Challenges and Opportunities

Chair: Prof. Dr. Nahide Bozkurt (Ankara University)

Dr. Denis R. Alexander (The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, University of Cambridge)

Dr. İbrahim Kalın (Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Türkiye)

 

Turkish-English Simultaneous Interpretation Will Be Provided.

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