Aquinas and Modern Evolutionary Theory: An Inquiry |Andrew Davison

Dr. Andrew Davison is an Anglican canon of St Albans Cathedral in the UK. He is is the Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Sciences at Cambridge. Before he moved into theology he was a scientist, and he holds undergraduate degrees and doctorates in both natural science (Merton College, Oxford) and theology (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge). Andrew taught Christian doctrine at Oxford and Cambridge before his current appointment. This talk explorates points of contact between Thomistic thought and modern science and evolutionary theory, and was presented as part of the Thomistic Institute Conference "The Spiritual Soul and Contemporary Neuroscience: A Thomistic Perspective" held at the Angelicum University.