Can Science Study the Supernatural?
Can Science Study the Supernatural?
Refute claims by many scientists that it cannot
Lecture by Dr. Victor Stenger
Dr. Victor Stenger is emeritus professor of physics at the University of Hawaii and adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. In this lecture, Dr. Stenger will refute claims by many scientists that science cannot study the supernatural. The lecture targets a general audience and all are invited to attend. Admission is free. This lecture is co-sponsor with the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Miami.
Dr. Stenger is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a research fellow of the Center for Inquiry. He has also held visiting positions on the faculties of the University of Heidelberg in Germany, Oxford in England (twice), and has been a visiting researcher at Rutherford Laboratory in England, the National Nuclear Physics Laboratory in Frascati, Italy, and the University of Florence in Italy.
Stenger spent forty years doing research in elementary particle physics and astrophysics during the golden age of those subjects. In his last project before retiring, Stenger collaborated on the underground experiment in Japan that showed for the first time that the neutrino has mass. The Japanese leader of this experiments shared the 2002 Nobel Prize.
Victor Stenger has had a parallel career as an author of critically well-received popular-level books that interface between physics and cosmology and philosophy, religion, and pseudoscience. These include: Not By Design: The Origin of the Universe (1988); Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses 1990); The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology (1995); Timeless Reality: Symmetry, Simplicity, and Multiple Universes (2000); Has Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe (2003); The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come from? (2006); and God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist (2007). The latest book made the New York Times bestseller list in March, 2007.
Dr. Stenger maintains a popular Web site (a thousand hits per month), where much of his writing can be found.
Some of Dr. Stenger's books will be sold at discounted prices and signed by the author. Cash and checks will be accepted. There will be no shipping and handling charges and a 20% discount from the list price will apply to all attending the lecture. There will be a 35% discount to Friends of the Center (FOC). An updated FOC ID card is required for this discount.
Summary Information:
What: Can Science Study the Supernatural? Lecture by Dr. Victor J. Stenger
Where: Unitarian Universalist of Miami, 7701 SW 76th Avenue
When: Thursday, April 17 at 8:00 PM
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