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The Error of Beginnings and the Beginning of Errors: Creation and Contemporary Cosmology."
Monday September 23rd, 4:30 pm
Rocky 002
Dr. William Carroll will examine the confusions in discussions today about the implications of different cosmological theories for the traditional doctrine of creation ex nihilo, considered both as a metaphysical doctrine and as a theological doctrine. His
talk will center on the philosophical and theological concepts of "beginning," distinguishing
metaphysical origin from
temporal origin, and the relationship of these philosophical and theological concepts to the aims of contemporary
cosmology.
Dr William E Carroll is the Thomas Aquinas Fellow in Theology and Science at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford and member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion of the University of Oxford. He is a European intellectual historian and historian of science whose research
and teaching concern: 1) the reception of Aristotelian science in mediaeval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, and the development of the doctrine of creation, and 2) the encounter between Galileo and the Inquisition. He has also written extensively on the
ways in which mediaeval discussions of the relationship among the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology can be useful in contemporary questions arising from developments in biology and cosmology.
He is the co-author of
Aquinas on Creation; and author of:
La Creación y las Ciencias Naturales:
Actualidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino;
Galileo: Science and Faith;
and Creation and Science.
Sponsored by the Dartmouth Apologia and cosponsored by the Dartmouth History Department.