Does Science Proscribe Immanent Divine Action?
Postponed to Fall 2006 New Date to be Announced (Download the presentation Dr Ulanowicz prepared for this event: http://www.cbl.umces.edu/~ulan/Shepherd.doc) Robert E. Ulanowicz, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science It is commonly perceived that the laws of science are inexorable and exhaustive, leaving no “wiggle room” for God to intervene in the physical world in response to prayer. This assumption is predicated on a set of postulates about nature that were formulated during the Enlightenment. Contemporary research in ecosystems ecology reveals examples of biological phenomena that contradict each of those basic assumptions and suggest an alternative metaphysics that is both more accommodating of theistic beliefs and which also provides a more fruitful foundation for research in the life sciences. Dr. Ulanowicz is Professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, and External Fellow at the Center for the Stu
