Yale University

The Thomistic Institute at Yale University presents a lecture by Prof. William Carroll of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law titled “Galileo and the Inquisition: The Legend of the Warfare Between Science and Faith.”

Thursday, February 23

5:30 PM

William Harkness Hall Room 116

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Dr. William E. Carroll is Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Philosophy at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Wuhan, China) and Senior Research Fellow at the Collegium of Anton Neuwirth (Bratislava, Slovakia). His specialty is the relationship among the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology, with an emphasis on Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of the doctrine of creation. He is the author of works and articles including Creation and Science: Has Science Eliminated God?; Galileo: Science and Faith;  and (with Steven Baldner) Aquinas on Creation. Beginning in 2013, he has spent several weeks each year giving lectures and seminars at various Chinese universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Wuhan.