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Exploring the Borderlands
Between Science and Religion
With Kathleen L. Housley

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 7 p.m.

Presented by: Hartford Seminary, 77 Sherman Street, Hartford


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Faith and science are often considered to be polar opposites, requiring a person to be either a skeptic or a true believer. Some people contend that they are totally separate realms that speak different languages. Others attempt to unite them by ideas such as intelligent design and the anthropic principle. One difficult sticking point is the nature of human intelligence. If the human mind is only a "computer made of meat" as one scientist has stated, what does that mean to the idea of people being made in God’s image?

Part lecture, part discussion, part poetry – this is an evening to explore the vast borderlands between faith and science – a place where awe retains its component parts of terror and wonder. One reviewer has compared Kathleen Housley to "a sort of Dian Fossey of human language. In pursuit of its mysteries, she has gone out in language’s dark, misty forest and lived among it like a conservation biologist, with her clipboard and binoculars." In her book of poetry titled Firmament, the polarity of faith and science creates an energy force field in which opposing images collide and combine into startling metaphors: a child gathers pulsars in a grass-lined basket; an agnostic astronomer prays to Einstein’s Cosmological Constant; and Michelangelo paints wingless angels while pondering divine aerodynamics.

Kathleen L. Housley’s poetry, essays and book reviews have appeared in The Christian Century, Image, Terra Nova (MIT Press), and Nimble Spirit (online). Firmament, published by Higganum Hill Books, was nominated for the National Book Award in 2007. She is the author of three acclaimed biographies: The Letter Kills But the Spirit Gives Life: The Smiths; Emily Hall Tremaine, Collector on the Cusp; and Tranquil Power: The Art and Life of Perle Fine. An Affiliated Scholar at Trinity College, Housley lives in Glastonbury, CT.

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