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High school teachers and youth ministers are welcome to attend, and are encouraged to bring groups. Group leaders are now able to register themselves and their students together! 

What can the science of evolution know? How is it related to religion, especially Catholic doctrine? Are they complementary or mutually exclusive? 

Questions like these have guided much of the scientific and religious investigation of the 20th and 21st centuries. In recent decades, discoveries of humanoid fossils have revealed new links between human ancestors and animals. Archaeologists and evolutionary biologists have called these discoveries "humans," but what does that mean for what it means to be human? How are you different or distinct from your pre-human ancestors?
 
The scientific evolutionary model is inherently limited in its understanding of the human person. It leaves us with as many questions as it answers: Where does the human soul come in? How are humans different from animals? What makes us human?
 
Answers to these questions can only be gained by recognizing the value—and the limits—of the evolutionary model. Philosophy and theology can provide us a guide when the science falls short. 
 
Join us Thursday, June 11th at 3:30pm ET for an online lecture with Chris Baglow, Director of the Science and Religion Initiative at Notre Dame's McGrath Institute for Church Life. Dr. Baglow is also the author of the premier science and religion textbook used by numerous Catholic schools in its science and theology curricula, Faith, Science, and Reason: Theology on the Cutting Edge.
 
During our time together, we'll listen to a short lecture, hold a brief Q&A, and then break into discussion groups to further dialogue about the questions that arise at the intersection of Christianity and evolution. The event should run until approx. 5pm.

Beatrice Institute is co-sponsoring this event hosted by the Lumen Christi Institute.