Contact:
Mary Tee, RSMMercy Centre for Ecology and Justice
Do Monkeys Go To Heaven:
Faith and Evolution
**Please note the change in date**
Monday February 20, 2017 from 7:15 PM to 9:15 PM EST
This session will explore the following questions:
- What is evolution?
- Why the fuss about evolution?
- How has the Church responded?
- Does evolution rule out God’s existence?
- Theology of Evolution
Guest Speaker: Rev. John McCarthy SJ
Scientist, author and Jesuit priest, John McCarthy SJ, was receipient of the 2002 Canadian Environment Awards Gold Medal (Lands and Forests category) for his work in boreal forest conservation in Newfoundland. He regularly speaks on the the subject of Christain fiath and ecology and publishes on lichenology as well as ecological theology and spirituality. A new lichen has been named after him - Acarospora maccarthyi K. Knudsen & Kocourk.
When: Monday February 20, 2017 from 7:15 PM to 9:15 PM EST
Where: The Lantern
35 Barnes Road
St John's, NL A1C 3X1
For more information
Contact:
Mary Tee, RSMMercy Centre for Ecology and Justice