Some observations from the Faraday Institute conference on science and religion

My educational background is in the humanities; my exposure to the sciences has been almost nil. The closest I come to the sciences is through my daughter and her husband, both high school biology teachers. However, I've become interested in the conversation between science and religion. So this week I'm at a conference at the Faraday Institute in Cambridge, England.

Faraday is a relatively new organization that sponsors research in the interface between science and religion. It also has an educational component. The conference I'm at is actually called a course, because its intent is to welcome to the conversation people like myself who aren't up to speed on science or, conversely, on theology and religion.  In the U.S. it strikes me as though the science-and-religion dialogue tends to include only people who can engage it at a high level, although I know the Templeton Foundation is working at drawing more people into that conversation. Templeton is a major supporter of the Faraday Institute.

Some observations from the conference so far: