The Westerly Series on Art & Faith, a program of Westerly Road Church in Princeton, will host an evening of discussion around a contemporary question, “Can science and faith coexist, or are they mutually exclusive?”
The free discussion will take place on Tuesday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Princeton University’s McCormick Hall.
Participating will be three scientists who will provide insight into “the impact of faith on their respective fields of study, relating the best evidence they see for God in science.” A Q&A session will follow.
The panelists are Jonathan Mitchell of the Institute for Advanced Study; Vern Poythress, professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, and Tina Master, M.D., of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dr. Mitchell holds a B.S. in Physics from Westmont College, Calif., and an M.S. and Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Chicago. He has been a member of the IAS since 2007.
Dr. Poythress holds a B.S. in mathematics from California Institute of Technology, a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard, a M.Div. and Th.M. in apologetics from Westminster Theological Seminary, and a Th.D. in New Testament from the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa).
Dr. Master earned an AB in molecular biology from Princeton University and graduated summa cum laude from The State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She is currently a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at The University of Pennsylvania and the associate program director for the Pediatric Residency Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Moderating the discussion will be the Rev. Dr. Matthew Ristuccia, senior pastor of Westerly Road Church.
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