Science and Religion on the Cam, Part I

It has been a time of much moving, lately. The MIT Knight Fellowship is over, and I'm currently in the other Cambridge (the one in England) for the briefer Templeton Fellowship. Not surprisingly, the controversy over this fellowship has sparked plenty of conversation over here among my fellow journalists/fellows. Now, with the first week of the fellowship over, I am prepared to say more about that. So far--and this is, to me, the most important point--I can honestly say that I have found the lectures and presentations that we've heard here to be serious and stimulating. The same goes for the discussions that have followed them. To be sure, we hear a fair amount about theological thought here--and I have my difficulties with theology as a field, simply because of my personal identity if nothing else. Being an atheist, it is pretty hard to relate to a theological perspective on ...