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Did it start with a bang? Cosmology and creation

Digby Stuart College Occasional Lecture

Professor Michael Heller of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow
Crucible Lecture Theatre, Duchesne Building
Tuesday 10 November 2009, 6pm

The lecture can be listened to on the audio player above.

Professor Michael Heller is an eminent philosopher and cosmologist, he was a personal friend of Pope John Paul II, and he was the winner of last year’s prestigious Templeton Prize. When he received the prize, he said:

"If we ask about the cause of the universe we should ask about the cause of mathematical laws. By doing so we are back in the great blueprint of God’s thinking about the universe; the question on ultimate causality: why is there something rather than nothing? When asking this question, we are not asking about a cause like all other causes. We are asking about the root of all possible causes. Science is but a collective effort of the human mind to read the mind of God from question marks out of which we and the world around us seem to be made."

Professor Heller is also head of the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies 

Annual Lecture 2009

On 18 May 2009 the Second Digby Stuart College Annual Lecture was given by Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at LSE. Read the full lecture transcript here: Human rights as a new state religion? (PDF) 

The Annual Digby Stuart College Lecture celebrates the Catholic identity of the Digby Stuart Foundation and of its providing body, the Society of the Sacred Heart and makes an important contribution to the rich and stimulating academic life of the University.