Science and Religion: The Myth of Conflict? - Mass (5:30PM) Reception (6:15PM) Presentation (7PM)

Prof. Stephen M. Barr will share a presentation titled Science and Relation: The Myth of Conflict?" on Wednesday, Nov. 2, in the Church. Prof. Barr serves as president of the Society of Catholic Scientists and is a professor emeritus of theoretical particle physics at the University of Delaware. A Golden Mass in honor of St. Albert the Great (patron saint of natural science), whose feast day is November 15, will be celebrated at 5:30 p.m. A reception will take place before Prof. Barr's presentation in the Siena Rooms (downstairs) at 6:15 p.m. 

Prof. Barr's research has centered mainly on “grand unified theories” and the cosmology of the early universe.  In 2011, he was elected to be a Fellow of the American Physical Society “for his original contributions to grand unification, CP violation, and baryogenesis”.  He writes and lectures extensively on the relation of science and religion.  He is the author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2003) and The Believing Scientist: essays on science and religion (Eerdmans, 2016).  He was elected in 2010 to the Academy of Catholic Theology and was awarded the Benemerenti Medal by Pope Benedict XVI.