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Brown
University scientist to address the ultimate "where are you from" question
By Maureen McKew
On Wednesday evening, Nov. 17, the Augustinian Institute will
present the 2004 Vivian J. Lamb Lecture on Augustinian thought and the
sciences. Dr. Kenneth Miller, professor of biology at Brown University,
 Providence,
R.I., will deliver a lecture titled “Looking for God in All the Wrong
Places: Evolution and the Challenge from ‘Intelligent Design.’ ” The lecture
will begin at 5 p.m. in the Villanova Room of the Connelly Center on the
Villanova campus. Admission is free and open to the public.
Miller is the author of a book by the same name
(Harper Collins, 1999; Perennial, 2000) in which he argues that there is
room for the activity of God within the laws and events of nature.
Frequently asked whether he believes in God, Miller who is a Catholic, says
that he is and adds that he believes in Darwin’s God.
A review in Publisher’s Weekly states that
Miller “attempts to draw a straight line between two apparently opposing
ideas: the theory of evolution and belief in a creator and described.” The
review goes on to describe Searching for God in All the Wrong Places
as a book “that will stir readers of both science and theology, perhaps
satisfying neither, but challenging both to open their minds.”
Miller received his undergraduate degree in biology
from Brown in 1970 and went on to earn a doctorate from the University of
Colorado in 1974. He has been a member of the Brown faculty since 1980. He
spent the previous six years teaching at Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass. He is also the co-author several high school and college biology texts
and has written a number of scientific papers. He is a member of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of
Cell Biology, and Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society. He also served
as editor of The Journal of Cell Biology and The Journal of Cell
Science.
The Vivan J. Lamb Lectures was endowed by Dr.
Michael G. Lamb ’75, a physician, who named the series for his mother. |
