Science and religion: Finding a Middle Ground

Room: Huron

presented by Andy Fletcher, President and CEO, Life, the Universe and Everything, Inc

The hostile debate over evolution and creationism rages, creating a gulf between people of faith and people of science. It's not a trivial debate, as questions such as stem cells, global warming, alternative energy, cloning, biotechnology and more are debated, the gap turns from benign to threatening. Science seems to have declared itself to be anti-God and religion has declared itself to be anti-science. Is there a way for science and religion to co-exist in a scientific and educational context? The answer seems to be yes, but both sides need to expand their worldviews within the context of pure science itself.

Andy Fletcher, President and CEO, Life, the Universe and Everything, Inc
Andy Fletcher has been presenting on physics and God since 1991 in international IB schools worldwide and in the US, the UK, and Canadian public IB schools. He is a graduate of and former teacher at the Zurich International School and taught at the École Internationale and CDL in Geneva, as well as at schools in Pebble Beach and West Hollywood and community colleges in Monterey and Salinas. He has an honorary diploma from Seinan University in Japan, a B.S. in History from the University of Southern California with a Math major and minor emphasis in English Literature, Japanese, and Philosophy, and has completed graduate studies in Math and Education at Cal State Fullerton and Cal Poly Pomona.