Richard O. Randolph, assistant professor and chair for the department of bioethics at the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, will be the guest speaker at Southwestern College’s Beck Lecture Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m. in Mossman 101. There is no admission charge to attend.
Randolph will focus on the implications of extraterrestrial life for Christian faith and doctrine. The title of the lecture is “What if Extraterrestrials Really Do Exist? Towards a Cosmic Christian Faith.”
“My basic approach is to examine what the discovery of intelligent or non-intelligent extraterrestrial life would mean for our understanding of basic Christian faith,” Randolph says.
Southwestern College chaplain Steve Rankin looks forward to the lecture.
“The possibility of life on other planets is a perennial fascination,” Rankin says. “For Christians thinking of humans made in God’s image, it poses a theological conundrum.”
The Beck lectureship, funded by Paul V. Beck to explore topics relating to science and religion, is an annual event on campus and brings in theologians and scientists from across the nation.
For more information about the Beck Lecture, call (620) 229-6367.
