Please join The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) for another session of our monthly webinar series, Science, Religion, and Society, featuring:
Presenter: Rabbi Geoff Mitelman
Respondent: Calvin Chatlos
Presentation Overview: When we think about Darwinian evolution, we often think about fierce competition for resources, or how our genes influence our kids’ height, or how it might clash with religious teachings. But in fact, evolution by natural selection can help us understand the roots of morality, which can then inform Jewish law and Jewish ethics.
Presenter’s Background: Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman is the Founding Director of Sinai and Synapses, an organization that bridges the scientific and religious worlds, incubated at The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. His work has been supported by the John Templeton Foundation, Emanuel J. Friedman Philanthropies, and the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation. His writings about the intersection of religion and science have been published in the books Seven Days, Many Voices; A Life of Meaning and These Truths We Hold, as well as in The Huffington Post, Nautilus, Orbiter, Science and Religion Today, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and My Jewish Learning. He has been an adjunct professor at both the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion and the Academy for Jewish Religion, and is an internationally sought-out teacher, presenter, and scholar-in-residence.
Respondent: Dr. Chatlos is Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA as a child & adolescent and addiction psychiatrist where he does research and incorporates spiritual experience in recovery from addiction and trauma. He is a member of the Society for Ethical Culture, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Monmouth County (UUCMC) and a Council member of IRAS. He is developer of the “Human Faith Project” focused on the role of self-worth and dignity in opening a universal core of religious/spiritual experience and its empowerment of creativity. He lives in New Jersey with his two children Taylor and Liviya.
The IRAS webinar is FREE but registration is required.
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