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Date For Your Diary Fixed Point Foundation is sponsoring a discussion entitled "Has Science Buried God?" between Prof. Richard Dawkins and Dr. John Lennox (of Green College, Oxford) on the main floor of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History at 7:00 p.m. on the 21st of October. Dawkins and Lennox will be discussing matters of science, the Christian faith, and their respective books: The God Delusion and God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? These men met for the first time in Birmingham , Alabama this past October for another event sponsored by Fixed Point, The God Delusion Debate. The debate, moderated by United States Federal Judge William H. Pryor, followed six theses from Dawkins' book The God Delusion. Garnering the attention of Fox News, Wall Street Journal, London Times, and BBC Radio, the event took place in front of a sold out crowd of almost 1,400. Fixed Point is seeking to generate even more public interest on this topic by taking the two men back to their hometown for another event. Fixed Point itself is a non-profit organization functioning as a think-tank and teaching resource for the community. Tackling issues where Christianity and culture tend to clash, it is our objective to create an environment conducive to open discussion, much like the Greek agora or the proverbial old town square. This is done through university symposiums, public debates, radio programming, documentaries, luncheons, and lecture series. For more about Richard see http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/richarddawkins.htm
Professor Richard Dawkins will be speaking again on Thursday 23rd October, when
he is giving the Charles Simonyi Lecture at the Oxford Playhouse in Beaumont
Street.
It starts at 5.30pm and tickets are £3.50.
The subject is "The Purpose of Purpose".
This is much less than people were paying to hear him speak at the last Sunday
Times Oxford Literary Festival!