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How important is it that scientific theories are beautiful, simple and elegant? How important is the way in which scientists do their work, to the discoveries they make and the theories they formulate? Join us in conversation with Geoffrey Woollard, a structural biologist, computer scientist in-training and co-host of our Beauty of Creation series. Together, we'll explore the role of beauty, simplicity, elegance, and seeing God in the practice of doing science, as well as recap the ground we've covered in the series as a whole, looking ahead to new syntheses.

The recording will be made available here and on our Youtube channel in late March.

  • Series overview available HERE
  • Human Uniqueness with Professor Christopher Baglow available HERE
  • Ecological Conversion with Sister Damien Marie Savino available HERE.
  • Green Thomism with Professor Christopher Thompson available HERE.
  • Bearing the Image of God with Professor Sonsoles de Lacalle available HERE.
  • Caring for the Whole Person with Fr Peter Turrone & Dr Natasha Fernandes available HERE
  • God's Revelation through Nature with Rev Dr Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti available HERE

SERIES OVERVIEW

Contemporary civilization is characterized by a technological paradigm, in which our increasing control over nature challenges our interpretations of the essence of what is natural, what is good, and what is properly human. This has major implications for civic life, in areas such as bioethics, medicine and the dignity of the human person, the state of the environment, and our relationship with the rest of creation. In this speaker series, we engage with leading scientists, philosophers, and theologians whose work is nourished by a Catholic Christian understanding of the world. By listening to and dialoguing with them, and going deeper into the body of work they are engaging, we can wisely engage and critique the technocratic paradigm and the transhumanist attitude. Through their work, as well as an engagement with Catholic Social teaching and the latest work in the Magisterium of the Church, we come to a greater appreciation of the integrity and beauty of creation that is a hallmark of Catholicism.

GEOFFREY WOOLLARD

Geoffrey Woollard was trained as a biophysicist and structural biologist. His scientific passion is energy, information, causality, and life at the microscopic scale. Geoff is now working on his PhD at the University of British Columbia where he seeks to apply perspectives from computer science, statistical learning theory, optimization, and high fidelity physics simulations to describe the 3D shapes of molecular life. He is the President of the Vancouver chapter of the Society of Catholic Scientists.