Deborah Haarsma, president of BioLogos, explores astronomy, cosmology and connections to evolution and other sciences in a lecture Friday, Feb. 7, at 3:30 p.m. in Winter Hall鈥檚 Darling Foundation Lecture Hall (Room 210) at 蜜桃传媒. The Pascal Society Lecture, 鈥淕od and the Multiverse,鈥� is free and open to the public.
The last 100 years have transformed our understanding of the universe. Haarsma says
we now know that the universe is ancient, beginning in a Big Bang 13.8 billion years
ago and it continues to expand today at an ever-increasing rate.
鈥淲e鈥檝e also seen amazing evidence that suggests our universe is part of a much bigger multiverse,鈥� she says. 鈥淲hat does all this have to do with God? I will respond to these exciting discoveries through the perspective of atheists and Christians.鈥�
Haarsma wrote 鈥淥rigins: Christian Perspectives on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design鈥� with her husband and fellow physicist, Loren. She co-edited an anthology, 鈥淒elight in Creation: Scientists Share Their Work with the Church,鈥� with Rev. Scott Hoezee.
Haarsma, who earned a doctorate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has taught and chaired the physics department at Calvin College.