Physics/Christianity
Seminar
Wednesday 3/16/2005,
4:30 pm
Willet Science Center 101
Paul
A. Lewis
Department of Christianity
Mercer University
Prospects
for Natural Law
in a Chaotic Universe
Despite
criticism from many quarters, natural law is a concept that refuses to
die. In its most general form, natural
law makes two claims: there is an objective standard for morality that is built
into "the way things are" and that human beings are capable of
knowing and acting on that order. The
purpose of this paper is to explore how those convictions fare in a universe
construed through the lens of chaos theory.
I will argue that chaos theory holds ambiguous promise for natural law
in that it denies some claims and corroborates others.
Please
join us for light refreshments
at 4:15pm outside WSC 109.