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Pathways to Flourishing:
A Dialogue of Science, Religion and
Politics at Middlebury College

The Middlebury College Local Societies Initiative (LSI) facilitates dialogue between science, religion and politics in response to the following question: What are the prospects for global human flourishing in the 21st century? We intend through this organizing perspective to emphasize the practical benefits that accrue to human communities when the disciplines of science and religion talk to one another.
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Topics will include:

Brain neurochemistry;
Cognitive development and hypotheses about the origins and functions of religious belief;
Cosmology: reflections on the nature of origins, time, freedom and teleology;
Evolution and design: the purposes and limits of technology;
Science and human values in a time of environmental change; and
Science and religion in art.

The Middlebury LSI will support invited speakers, reading groups, theatre performances, a web site and newsletter, and associated publicity and social events. Project Director Augustus E. Jordan, Ph.D. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life

Funded by Metanexus
http://www.metanexus.net/Institute/

Additional Funding from Middlebury College:
The Department of Religion
The Academic Enrichment Fund
Ross Commons
The Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life

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Pathways to Flourishing:A Dialogue of Science, Religion and Politics at Middlebury College

Pathways to Flourishing:
A Dialogue of Science, Religion and
Politics at Middlebury College